== Title ==

5 Open Source Software in Education projects that changed the world
   
== Brief description (255 char) ==

HFOSS, TOS/POSSE, UCOSP, CMU, and RIT: what do these acronyms stand
for, why is each a model for a type of open source in education
interaction that could revolutionize the way the world learns, and
what can you do to help?

== Short Abstract (1000 char) == 

Of all possible OSSIE topics, the Community Architecure team at Red
Hat has to keep a tight focus, & these are five of the projects we
find interesting enough to spend time on.

The Humanitarian FOSS (HFOSS) Project was started by a group of
computing faculty & open source proponents. They provide interesting
grants, for example.

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) & Rochester Institute of Technology
(RIT) are schools at the forefront of teaching open source
development, similar to how Undergraduate Capstone Open Source
Projects is (UCOSP) redefining the classic capstone project.

The TeachingOpenSource.org (TOS) community is a collaboration point
for professors, institutions, communities, & companies around
teaching open source. Where TOS is about strategic discussions,
Professors' Open Source Summer Experience (POSSE) is a specific
tactic-in-action. POSSE is a weeklong bootcamp that immerses
professors in open source projects so they can learn how to get their
students involved.

This talk covers:

Humanitarian FOSS (HFOSS): How do you get FOSS work to have academic credibility? Answer: get funded by massive grants.

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT): How do schools large and small integrate FOSS into the fabric of their teaching and learning, both from the top-down and the bottom-up?

Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects (UCOSP): The classic capstone project, redefined - not just for engineering/CS, either.

Professors' Open Source Summer Experience (POSSE): How do professors learn to teach their students open source, where students work on topics their teachers don't know and the primary skill is learning to "be productively lost"?

Teaching Open Source (TOS): Where does the community of practice for teaching FOSS contribution gather? Here.


== Long Abstract (10000 char) ==

These are longer explanations of the projects to be highlighted in
this presentation.

HFOSS - The Humanitarian FOSS Project is a collaborative,
community-building project that was started by a group of computing
faculty and open source proponents

TOS - TeachingOpenSource.org is a neutral collaboration point for
professors, institutions, communities, and companies to come together
and make the teaching of Open Source a global success.

POSSE - Professors' Open Source Summer Experience is a weeklong
bootcamp that immerses professors in open source projects so they can
learn how to get their students involved.

UCOSP - Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects is for students to
gain hands-on experience with real-world development practices in a
realistic environment while simultaneously learning and applying some
core concepts of computer science.

CMU - Carnegie Mellon University is one of the nation's top computer
science schools with very progressive views about teaching open
source.

RIT - Rochester Institute of Technology is a school at the forefront
of applying the principles of teaching open source development from
the inside.