User:Mchua

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My name is Mel Chua, and this page describes the TOS-related projects I'm working on. Feel free to contact me with any comments, questions, or ideas you might have, or check and see if I'll be traveling near you sometime soon.

I work on the Red Hat Community Architecture team. I come most recently from the OLPC (http://wiki.laptop.org) and Sugar Labs (http://wiki.sugar.labs.org) projects, where (among other things) I worked with groups of college students to start university chapters working on both projects. Not long ago, I was an engineering student at Olin College (olin.edu) where I promptly got addicted to education and decided that someday I would become a professor*, so y'all are my heroes.

One of my big goals (and interests, in general) is how professors can make students into catalysts - making sure you go back in the fall with everything you need to turn each kid in your class into an open-source community leader. I'm also hoping to work on followup and learn how to help your ideas and projects gain traction and credibility in the academic world as next school year goes along - do we need to publish journal articles on the impact of teaching the open-source way, should we hit up conferences, how can we help you get permission/resources/recognition from admins, what are the challenges re: working in open-source communities that are particular to universities (student turnover every semester, grades, etc.), what else should be on this list?

I'm new to seeing this side of academia which you all know very well, so I'm looking forward to having my assumptions challenged and my worldview of the ivory tower rewired.

[edit] Projects

  • POSSE - one of the POSSE 2009 organizers, working on followup and summer 2010 sessions.
  • Textbook Project author.
  • /Braindumps of projects that haven't really been fleshed out yet.
  • Universities - a first attempt to keep stats
  • POSSE alumni - another stats attempt
  • /Grad school - an application in progress.
  • /Restaurant List - a collection of all the awesome places I've eaten while running POSSE's all over the world
  • Budget - Red Hat has set aside some budget for TOS, and I manage that budget on behalf of Red Hat. (Other groups, individuals, and companies can run their own TOS budgets too, I just oversee the money that Red Hat chips in.)

[edit] Todo

[edit] Budget

  • equipment to Matt
  • invoice to Olin (non-TOS)

[edit] PR

[edit] POSSE momentum PR: Early Sep

  • Next action: Kara to write draft
  • Allegheny (Matt Jadud quote)
  • Seneca (Chris Tyler, David Humphrey, Fardad Soleimanloo quotes)
  • Seneca alumni quotes
  • Mel to set up visit in October; should get students at Allegheny and Seneca to produce their own PR.

[edit] Events

Press blog and opensource.com articles for each.

[edit] FIE: Late Oct

[edit] SIGCSE: March

[edit] Grace Hopper: Late Sep

  • Women in FOSS/Computing focus press blog
  • Undergrads @ Allegheny
  • Mo Duffy's story
  • POSSE Worcester professors - Kris Striegnitz, Mihaela Sabin
  • Heidi Ellis
  • How do we get more women in...?
  • Next action: Mel to ask Matt Jadud if he wants to cover this event, draft outline for Kara

[edit] Mozilla Drumbeat: Late Sep

  • Next action: Mel to see if Greg DeKoenigsberg can cover this event.

[edit] TOS

  • Next action: Mel send Kara details on South Africa POSSE + backstory
  • Press blog
  • Regional PR outreach - Terri Barnes

[edit] Campus Ambassadors

  • 3-4 stories (October?)
  • Next action: mel to talk with Campus Ambassadors in Fedora and get their plans for the next school year

[edit] Longer-term

  • UAT press blog
  • Habib

[edit] Fall semester

TOS curriculum/textbook (POSSE) 8
Academic presence/research 2
TOS updates/PR 3
TOS heartbeat 3
Orientation/blogging/expenses 1
APAC/Fedora-mktg 1

[edit] Electives

I can't pick all of these - one, or two at most - but these are the ones I'm considering.

  • Music - guitar, fingerstyle and music theory. A few non-regularly-scheduled private lessons with a good teacher in Raleigh (he wrote a textbook I really like) and the 6-week music theory course from P2PU, plus regular practice on my own, and recording songs; my friend Andrew has offered to add vocals to any tracks I make, as incentive.
  • Software development - getting a better hands-on idea of how high-level web services work. Taking the 6-week P2PU course Beginning Python from my former TOPP co-worker Jeff Hammel and possibly Reading Code in parallel, then working more intensively with RIT students to hack up lingobot, etc. for the remainder of the term.
  • Operation: Becoming Marginally Athletic for the Purpose of Eventually Doing Martial Arts in a Reasonably Hardcore Manner (also also, dancing better)
  • Operation: Not Being Monolingual

[edit] September

  • OLF
  • (Hopper)
  • (Drumbeat)

[edit] October

  • FIE
  • POSSE SA
  • OnLinux/RIT/Seneca

[edit] November

  • Heidi

[edit] December

  • CHRISTMAS!!!!

[edit] Spring semester

Possibly taking this course?

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