POSSE 2013-06 2A Sunday Etherpad

POSSE 2013-06
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Participants

Heidi Ellis, Western New England University

• Was an animal science major
• Has chocolate stashed in her hotel room
• Brought wet wipes (perhaps she predicted the desert)
• Lives about midway between Western NE U and Trinity, in a town that does not allow drive-throughs
• Most valuable course in educational career: Typing

Greg Hislop, Drexel University

• Does not do sticky
• Does do chocolate
• Has five children, ranging in age from 12 to 24 or so.

Samuel A. Rebelsky, Grinnell College

• Grinnell College is in Iowa
• Sam has 3 wonderful boys
• Commute was a little rough... lots of plane delays, but arrived at Drexel at the same time as the group
• Interested in using Ushahidi
• To relax spends time with family - plays board games
• Likes to read
• Finds work relaxing ... (workaholic??)
• Is color deficient so this system is challenging
• Wants to talk to Sebastian about algorithmically generated art

Ruth Suehle, Red Hat

• Used to dance ballet (and belly)
• Writing a book on hacks for Raspberry Pi
• Danced with lightening in a Tesla cage a week or so ago.
• Has a full set of MassEffect
• has clutzy and transparent child and another one who is a spelling bee winner 
• knows how to spelll Claddagh (also spelling bee winner)
• Does not do sticky
• Writes at Wired as "Geek Mom" <a href="http://www.wired.com/geekmom/author/ruth/">http://www.wired.com/geekmom/author/ruth/</a>
• Likes lovefeast coffee and cake

Monisha Pulimood, The College of New Jersey

• Studied middle school in Kenya
• Father works in Steel (which is why she was in Kenya)
• Considering Ushahidi as a project because it may fit with a broader social/environmental justice project that is the focus of her class.
• Actually makes the time to relax
• Did a really cool project having middle school students do participatory journalism and write programs (in Scratch) as part of their reporting.

Cam Macdonell, Grant MacEwan University

• Owns a kilt
• Only person here from Canada (how do you know?)
• Has done some work on Ushahidi
• Has never had sweet potatoes with marshmallows before.

Lori Postner, Nassau Community College

• part of the foss2serve team, one of the PI's
• has a brother and sister who have both lived in California
• Loves shoe shopping
• Not a big fan of sweet potatoes covered in marshmallows 
• Does not do sticky

Sonal Dekhane, Georgia Gwinnett College

• From Bombay, India originally
• Went to college here, Tulane University in New Orleans
• Was there during Katrina, evacuated 2 days ahead of the storm.

Ben Coleman, Moravian College

• We both know Laurie King - she was his advisor, I'm cochairing a conference with her
• is a great cook (as per his grad school friend)
• avid cyclist\, all around great guy
• does sticky, all the time
• bribed matt to write that he is a great guy ($20)

Peter Bui, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

• finds the freedom and human interaction parts of his job very rewarding
• Managing a super computer project 
• Teaches an undergradute programming course in Python and is using mercurial and Bitbucket to have students submit their work
• Refuses to teach us how to pronounce his name

Nannette Napier, Georgia Gwinnett College

• Original member of founding faculty at Gwinnett
• is a great leader
• Does not do sticky
• Is a Pretty pretty princess

JoAnne Taormina: Nassau Community College

• Survived hurricane Sandy (as did her institution)
• Probably using OpenMRS as the open source software.  Teaching independent study to students who only know Java.  A bit nervous, but aren't we all.
• Commute was smooth.
• Can't count - typed four facts about first interview (but so did her interviewer)

Kiranmai Bellam, Prairie View A & M University

• Coordinator for international collaborations with India
• Going to my home state in a couple of months
• Skydove (past tense?) last year from 14K feet
• Was terrified of the brown bread

Patricia (Patti) Ordóñez, University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras

• Taking trapeeze lessons
• She is some type of absent minded profeesor, but cannot remember what the word is. Stoney ftw - consummate
• Does sticky

Darci Burdge - Nassau Community College

• lived in at least four different states growing up
• father was in military
• Can't remember her github username
• Loves homemade popcorn with butter so she must do sticky

Karl Wurst, Worcester State University

• Went to Lehigh for 1.5 years during undergrad
• Actually took longer to get his Ph.D. than Heidi did
•  Likes drawing diagrams
• Also teaches Python
• Likes to write down random facts he knows about other participants

Ellen Zimmer, Edinboro

• Come from a family of academics
• Avid fisher

Matt Lang, Moravian College

• Not a big fan of sweet potatoes covered in marshmallows 
• is a hockey playing cat loving cook
• AKA "Matt from Moravian"s
• is an all around great guy

Sebastian Benthall, UC Berkeley

• Graduate student studying data science
• originally from CT
• doesn't really like San Francisco very much; likes berkeley much more
• working on algorithmically generated art
• Thought that "Amish Mafia" was maybe true to life
• Pronounces his last name the same way Peter does ("However you want")

Becka Morgan Western Oregon University

• She wants to be a skydiver and paraglide off cliffs in Hawaii
• She was a stage manager for a syndicated TV series named Divorce Court
• She was the production supervisor for one of the first HBP flm series - First in Ten
• Does not do sticky
• Started tenure track position while she was in school, graduated recently and will go up for tenure in a couple of years.
• insprired sticky... because she was dying to go to wash hands after eating the dessert and stated she does not do sticky
• likes to make up facts about other participants

Stoney Jackson, Western New England University

• Commutes an hour to this job for love
• Wrote code for 5 hours on the train with Karl
• plays guitar and piano
• Feels like a pretty, pretty princess today

John Sener, Sener Knowledge

• Just bought a Ford C-Max
• went hiking in the NJ Pine Barrens today
• knows a guy who wrote a book about Kepler
• saw a Northern Black Racer

Bill Mongan

• Has Claddagh ring
• Is a private pilot
• is on the teaching faculty in the CS department and works closely with the iSchool
• Gets lots of mail addressed to Morgan

Sean P. GOggins

• Been at Drexel for 4 years
• Has worked with students doing projects with Twitter 
• was mistaken for Kojak on the subway today

Michelle Purcell, Drexel University

• Working on her research proposal about behaviors in open-source communities (it sounds really cool, and I've probably misrepresented it)
• Has two children.
• Greg let her out of the lab today
• Threw out her first dissertation proposal

Howard Francis, Universitty of Pikeville

• not present in Philly :(
• Presenting at another workshop in Ferrum, VA
• Collects Monopoly Games
• Oldest daughter got married two weeks ago. Next oldest daughter getting married on Friday.

Esmail Bonakdarian

• Dominican University
• Stalked by Peter
• Used to teach at Oberlin
• Currently teaches as Dominican
• Is an amateur astronomer

Joanie Diggs

• Co-team lead of the GNOME Accessibility team with Alejandro Pinero
• Works for Igalia which provide consulting services for open source projects
• Likes her car so much she is going to bring it to Spain with her
• Wrangles newbies to open source with great finesse

IRC: 

• Drexel guest network doesn't support client-based IRC nor VPN
• You  may want to try the freenode Web IRC : <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/">http://webchat.freenode.net/</a>
• Is not a participant in POSSE

Communal Notes

• (rebelsky is going to town on IRC channel foss2serve on freenode.net: join using web based client: <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/">http://webchat.freenode.net/</a> )
• IRC Log of Sunday night meeting: <a href="http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/foss2serve/2013-06-02/foss2serve.2013-06-02-23.41.html">http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/foss2serve/2013-06-02/foss2serve.2013-06-02-23.41.html</a>

Useful Links

• Web-based IRC client: <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/">http://webchat.freenode.net/</a>
• Schedule: <a href="http://foss2serve.org/index.php/Stage_2_Activities">http://foss2serve.org/index.php/Stage_2_Activities</a>
• Slides and stuff: <a href="http://foss2serve.org/images/foss2serve/d/da/POSSE_Stage2Materials.zip">http://foss2serve.org/images/foss2serve/d/da/POSSE_Stage2Materials.zip</a>
• Blog post: "Why we won't call you a 'user'": <a href="http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/263">http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/263</a>
• 50 ways to be a FOSSer: <a href="http://xcitegroup.org/softhum/doku.php?id=f:50ways">http://xcitegroup.org/softhum/doku.php?id=f:50ways</a>
• Producing Open Source Software: <a href="http://producingoss.com/">http://producingoss.com/</a>
• The Open Source Way: <a href="http://theopensourceway.org">http://theopensourceway.org</a>
• OpenSource.com: <a href="http://opensource.com/">http://opensource.com/</a>