{"id":4916,"date":"2013-07-24T07:25:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T15:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2013-07-25T05:23:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T13:23:27","slug":"what-open-source-developers-can-do-for-teachers-volunteer-to-speak-in-a-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2013\/07\/24\/what-open-source-developers-can-do-for-teachers-volunteer-to-speak-in-a-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"What Open Source developers can do for teachers: volunteer to speak in a classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

I keynoted the Computer Science Teacher’s Association<\/a> annual conference on July 16th. I gave a talk about how open source developers can help teachers, and what I’ve learned about teaching programming to beginners. The slides are available<\/a>, although not completely informative about what I said. I plan to write up what I said in that talk after OSCON is finished. Here’s part 1 of the talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My pitch to the teachers was: send me an email, and I will find a free and open source community member to give a 15-20 minute talk in your classroom. Lots of teachers are taking me up on it.<\/p>\n

To get this done, I set up a form for FOSS community members to provide their contact information<\/a>. I’ve gotten 163 people as of 8:20am PT July 24. Thanks so much everyone! I know quite a few of the people who have filled out the form, and there are a ton of new people as well. I’m incredibly excited about this. We can all do a lot of good by actually meeting the teachers in our local areas!<\/p>\n

Anyone is welcome to sign up, in any location. We have gotten volunteers from every continent except Africa so far.<\/p>\n

Most of my teacher contacts are in the US, and I know a few teachers in Germany. If you know teachers who’d like speakers, I’d love to hear from you as well.<\/p>\n

I’ve also started a conversation with a few developers about creating an app for connecting teachers and FOSS community members. We’ve got some code in a repo, and a couple people interested in an API for use in some neat remixing applications.<\/p>\n

If you’ve got some Django or front-end experience, and you’d like to donate a little time, we’d be happy to have you join us in developing a tool for managing the contact process. I really want the introductions between people to continue to be a “warm handoff”, but it would be nice to remove me as a single-point-of-failure.<\/p>\n

I’m setting up a meeting next week. Just ping me either on this post or via email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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