[FM Discuss] Fwd: POSSE and FLOSS Manuals

[Tomi Toivio]

THIS is a great idea... I have to see if it would be possible to get Finnish
technical communication (or translation) teachers/students involved in
this... ;)

Regards
Tomi

2009/7/23 Anne Gentle <annegentle at justwriteclick.com>

> Hi fine FLOSS Manuals folks!
>
> I'm forwarding this email from Greg to start a discussion about technical
> writing professors teaching open source and participating in book sprints to
> learn how to run book sprints with students.
>
> I think we have had professors interested in book sprints for their
> students in the past - we'd love to get feedback on small steps we could
> take towards this larger goal.
>
> Thanks,
> Anne
>
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com>
> Date: Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:34 AM
> Subject: POSSE and FLOSS Manuals
> To: Andy Oram <andyo at oreilly.com>, Anne Gentle <annegentle at gmail.com>
> Cc: Mel Chua <mechua at redhat.com>
>
>
>
> Hey Andy.  So Mel Chua tells me that you're heavily involved with FLOSS
> Manuals, which I did not know, and which is a brilliant thing.  Also copying
> Anne Gentle from FLOSS Manuals, who I know from the OLPC/Sugar book sprints.
>  Hi!  (/me waves)
>
> I'm sitting here in POSSE, the Professor's Open Source Summer Experience
> for computer science profs.  Andy, I think you actually signed books for it,
> but Anne, in case you don't know about it, you can read more here:
>
> http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_2009
>
> The more I think about it, the more it seems like POSSE may be an even
> better model for technical writing professors.
>
> Computer science is a hard nut to crack.  Asking CS professors to
> essentially change the way they teach CS, in order to incorporate open
> source methodologies, is asking an awful lot.  That's not stopping me from
> asking, but it's going to be a long, hard road.
>
> Asking technical writing professors to write for open source projects, and
> to encourage their students to write for open source projects, seems like it
> might be a lot more straightforward, and a lot more productive in the near
> term.  To a tech writer, content is content; describing a proprietary UI and
> an open source UI are essentially the same activity.  No change to workflow
> required.
>
> I would like to expand the POSSE idea to include tech writing professors.
> The basic proposition:
>
> * Red Hat sponsors a book sprint, run by the good people at FLOSS Manuals.
>
> * We recruit tech writing professors to the event, with the intention of
> teaching them how book sprints work.  We select those tech writing
> professors who are willing to commit to running a book sprint with their
> students within the next year.
>
> What do you think?  Is this an idea you'd be willing to talk more about?
>
> --g
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Tomi Toivio
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