[Osdc-edu-authors] SIGCSE coverage: help develop the plan of (journalistic) attack

[Mel Chua]

(Copying the Teaching Open Source list on this as a first heads-up, but 
I'd like to have the discussion on 
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/osdc-edu-authors if possible so 
we don't swamp everyone on TOS with journalism-coordination-details.)

SIGCSE is coming up! And we're going to hit it big - lots of TOS 
(http://teachingopensource.org) activities there - and so I'd like to 
get a flood - nay, a tsunami, a malestroom - of content coming out of it 
- stories that tell people who we are, what we do, and why we care so 
much about it.

Now, I know people will be blogging on their personal blogs, writing to 
the TOS list, and so forth - but I'd like to funnel all these sources 
towards http://opensource.com/education as The Place where We Do SIGCSE 
Coverage of TOS. Why opensource.com? We've got tons of editorial and 
artwork (and even video-editing, if we come back with footage!) help 
there, plus everything that's posted on opensource.com is creative 
commons. It's therefore both (1) snazzy-looking and (2) re-purpose-able 
for anything else we'd like - campus newspapers, supplements to press 
releases for local journalists when everyone goes back home, sending 
back to the presenters and SIGCSE folk (journalism is a reeeeeally good 
networking excuse), and so forth.

Matt Jadud, Mihaela Sabin, and Grant Hearn are going to be doing a bunch 
of coverage of the event as part of their Teaching Open Source travel 
grant to the event (thanks folks!), and we've got a number of prior 
opensource.com authors (myself, Steve Jacobs, Sebastian Dziallas, Heidi 
Ellis, and likely others I may be missing here) from the TOS community - 
if you're not already an author but would like to help cover something 
at SIGCSE, let Mary Bitter (mbitter at redhat dot com) know so she can 
help you get set up beforehand. Each article should only take 1-2 hours 
of work tops (unless you really want to spend more time, which is cool); 
if you read the stuff already up there, it's by and large short and 
sweet. Not formal like an academic paper - much more fun to write. :)

I'd like to aim for a minimum of 6 SIGCSE-related articles, including 
pre-and-post conference posts. (Actually, I'd like to double that if 
possible - 6 is a bare minimum we should really be able to blow out of 
the water.) Some ideas are below. Thoughts? Matt, Mihaela, and Grant, do 
you have any preferences or other ideas of what you'd like to write?

* Pre-conference post: lay of the land - what's SIGCSE, what's it like, 
and what are cool events (not just TOS ones) that people might be 
interested in? For instance, Max just pointed out IBM's "Can Students 
Really Develop Software Collaboratively?" session at 
http://www.sigcse.org/sigcse2011/attendees/supporter_sessions.php. (I 
could take this one, but think it could be better-written by someone 
who's been to SIGCSE before - Matt, Mihaela, interested?)

* One article per keynote. (Any takers?)
** Matthias Felleisen - "TeachScheme!" (Matt, this might be up your 
alley, it's on programming languages.)
** Susan Landau - "A Computer Scientist Goes to Washington: How to be 
Effective in a World Where Facts are 10% of the Equation" (I'll do this 
one unless someone else really wants it.)
** Luis Von Ahn, "Three Human Computation Projects"

* Session coverage - which sessions would you like to see liveblogged? 
(Grant, maybe there are some mobile dev things you'd like to cover 
here?) Schedule at 
http://db.grinnell.edu/sigcse/sigcse2011/Program/Program.asp. A few 
potentials:
** Mihaela Sabin: "A Neglected Pipeline? How Faculty Teach, Advise, and 
Mentor Transfer Students" birds of a feather
** Matt Jadud, Heidi Ellis, Greg Hislop, and Mel Chua: "Learning through 
Open Source Participation" panel
** Sebastian Dziallas, Heidi Ellis, and Mel Chua: "Teaching Open Source" 
birds of a feather
** Victor Larios, Kelvin Sung: "Open Source and Freeware Tools for 3D 
Game Development Courses" workshop (Steve Jacobs, sounds potentially up 
your alley.)
** Michael Rivera: "Designing Open Source Labs for Distance Education" 
birds of a feather

Are you presenting, and would like your session covered? Maybe you can 
swap with another presenter and each write articles about each others' 
sessions. Holler in this thread.

* Faculty interviews: professors doing cool things with their classes + 
open source tell their stories. One article per prof (or group of 
collaborating profs.) I'd love to capture as many of these as possible 
(also also, excuses for networking!) - in terms of format, see 
http://opensource.com/business/10/3/five-questions-about-building-community-chris-blizzard-mozilla 
for inspiration. I have a sound recorder available for borrowing for 
folks who want to do their interviews in audio and then transcribe. Who 
should we talk with? (See 
http://db.grinnell.edu/sigcse/sigcse2011/Program/programByAuthorsLeaders.asp 
for a list of presenters.) We can post some of these during the 
conference itself, and save a bunch for posting afterwards as follow-up 
in the next few months. (Matt, I think you were particularly keen on 
this - want to head up the interview brigade?)

* Also consider the HFOSS symposium and keynotes 
http://www.hfoss.org/hfoss2011/ (Trishan, Cat, folks from OSU, Stormy, 
Ralph - do you want some coverage here? What would you like to write? 
Mihaela, I know you were presenting something at HFOSS... would you like 
to take charge of HFOSS coverage?)

* other ideas?

* Post-conference round-up: a week or so after SIGCSE ends, a metapost 
linking to and summarizing all the current SIGCSE posts to date, and any 
cool next-projects coming from it. (This is an easy one for a remotee - 
if you wished you were coming to SIGCSE but can't make it this year, 
this would be a way to integrate yourself into the conference happenings 
from afar.)

--Mel