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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.63,0:00:04.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,POSSE is Professors Open Source Summer Experience
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.15,0:00:12.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's a one-week intensive bootcamp for professors designed to solve a problem
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.90,0:00:19.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We realized a while back that many students who were getting involved in open source
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.78,0:00:24.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,weren't doing so as part of a formal schooling program.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.19,0:00:28.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, at the same time there was a lot of value to
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.26,0:00:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,learning in open source.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.30,0:00:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a huge code base to experiment with,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.94,0:00:35.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a community of collaborators that can support
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.94,0:00:38.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and encourage and aid learning. The problem was that
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.35,0:00:41.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there were very few professors who were involved with
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.95,0:00:45.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,open source, and POSSE is designed to address that by
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.95,0:00:50.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,encouraging professors to, themselves, get deeply involved
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.02,0:00:52.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in an open source community. It's not really
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.30,0:00:55.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very different from developing software in another context,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.43,0:00:58.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except that in open source you've got the communications
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.62,0:01:01.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the community aspects. So, it's almost more cultural
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.70,0:01:03.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than technical learning.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.74,0:01:07.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the participants from the first POSSE is a
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.34,0:01:09.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,professor with you at Seneca, Fardad.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.17,0:01:11.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you tell me a little about what he's doing now?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.44,0:01:15.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fardad has taken a third semester programming course,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.05,0:01:20.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the core courses in our programming program
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.20,0:01:25.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and added an open source component, almost as a
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.16,0:01:29.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pre-open source course, so that students, rather than work
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.63,0:01:33.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on their own little projects are instead collaborating
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.47,0:01:37.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in small groups using open source methods and communication tools.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.46,0:01:42.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's really transformed that course. He's offered that
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.90,0:01:46.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,course for one full semester and he's into the second semester
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.42,0:01:50.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so far, the results are really quite astounding.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.89,0:01:55.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The student engagement is dramatically increased,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.51,0:01:58.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the students are... pop into the IRC channel and you'll
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.67,0:02:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,see them late at night or on the weekends and hacking
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.60,0:02:05.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,away and by introducing open source concepts earlier
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.47,0:02:09.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that we be able to prepare students to become
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.57,0:02:13.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more deeply involved when they reach the later semesters.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.17,0:02:16.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the things that was interesting that came out
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.65,0:02:19.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,during the first POSSE was that, for me, I watched a lot of
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.65,0:02:21.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the professors come in and go "We were thinking about
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.85,0:02:25.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,computer science senior capstone projects." But another
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.22,0:02:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one was "Well, wouldn't this stuff be great for students to
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.02,0:02:32.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,learn how to write technical documentation?" Or if you're
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.58,0:02:34.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,studying human/computer interaction, have your designs
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.96,0:02:38.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually in a product by the time you graduate. Or if you're...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.96,0:02:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you want to do QA when you get out, learn how to do
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.68,0:02:46.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that on a real product that's shipping and you find the bugs
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.61,0:02:50.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in. And so, broadening to a couple of other disciplines
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.74,0:02:52.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a couple of other teams that we know how to handle
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.91,0:02:56.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very well, and in Fedora and in other open source projects,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.33,0:03:00.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's going to expand the... instead of just reaching the
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.27,0:03:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,computer science majors and the computer science
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.60,0:03:06.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,department, we'll be able to get students that study other
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.18,0:03:07.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.32,0:03:10.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the Seneca students wrote the animated PNG
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.77,0:03:13.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,implementation for Mozilla. There was no animated version
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.98,0:03:18.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of that except for the MNG format which was very rarely
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.45,0:03:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,implemented. So, one of our students, with the urging of
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.84,0:03:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Mozilla community, implemented a lightweight animated
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.57,0:03:32.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,format for that and since then that format's been adopted by
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.06,0:03:35.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think all of the major browsers.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.59,0:03:36.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, wow!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.19,0:03:39.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, there's more than 300,000,000 people directly using
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.98,0:03:42.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that student's code and then many other people using the
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.85,0:03:44.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Internet that have been impacted by it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.91,0:03:48.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To go into an interview and be able to point to that and say
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.02,0:03:50.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yeah, actually I wrote that software," or "I added a feature
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.56,0:03:52.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to that software, fixed a bug, or wrote some documentation
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.62,0:03:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for it," and then for the interviewers to be able to verify that,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.80,0:04:00.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and be able to see everything that they have done is
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.77,0:04:02.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very powerful.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.81,0:04:04.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If there are professors that are interested in teaching
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.56,0:04:08.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,open source, are there other people that they can talk to about this?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.45,0:04:10.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The web presence that we created is called
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.72,0:04:14.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,teachingopensource.org and in fact the POSSE program
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.70,0:04:18.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is accessible at http://teachingopensource.org/posse
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.69,0:04:23.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there's a fairly easy way for people to get in touch,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.16,0:04:26.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,find out what's going on with the POSSE program, get
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.45,0:04:28.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,involved, and perhaps even host.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.56,0:04:31.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If professors are interested in doing something like that
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.49,0:04:35.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at their school later on, then come, join the fun, say they're
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.85,0:04:39.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,interested, and can go from there.