TOS@FSOSS

(?) indicates someone who will be present at FSOSS, have not confirmed participation in this role yet.

(???) indicates someone who has not confirmed that they will be attending FSOSS.

This is a work-in-progress!

Teaching Open Source (TOS) @ the Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) 2008 - Thursday Oct 23

The Professor's Perspective (9 am)

• Panel
  • David Humphrey, Seneca
  • Tony Wasserman, CMU-SV
  • Will Cohen, RH/NCSU (???)
  • Telemark University (???)

• Moderator
  • David Eaves

The Student's Perspective (10 am)

• Panel
  • Armen Zambrano, Seneca/BSD
  • Tom W, Seneca/ISA (?)
  • Andrew Smith, Seneca/BSD
  • Jeremy Vernon, University of Toronto & Citizen Lab

(Would love some students from elsewhere but will need to find them and fund them).

• Moderator
  • Mark Surman

The Institution's Perspective (11 am)

• Panel
  • Evan Weaver, Seneca
  • Rob Cameron, Simon Fraser
  •  ?

• Moderator
  • Greg Dekoenigsberg

The Community's Perspective (1 pm)

• Panel
  • Frank Hecker, Mozilla
  • Paul Frields, RH/Fedora
  • Louis Suarez-Potts (or Eric Bouchard), OOo (?)

• Moderator
  • Luigi Ferrara (???)

Discussion: Teaching Open Source - Next Steps (2 pm)

Need a better title? Suggested title: "Opening Up Open Source" or "Opening Up Open Source to outsiders"

• Moderator: David Eaves
  • Brief (1- to 2-minute?) proposals for collaboration or shared-value initiatives in Teaching Open Source.
    • Greg Dekoenigsburg, Red Hat -- Consortium of institutions (high-level & lightweight)
    • Mark Surman, Mozilla
    • Others? (Mark Howson?)
  • Discussion

Open Access and Open Source

• Leslie Chan, UofT