It feels like it just started, but the HFOSS Spring course is already past half-done! Perhaps the 13 day excursion to Silicon Valley and Harvard had something to do with that...

Part 1: PyCon 2013: Santa Clara, CA

FOSS@RIT took four students out to PyCon 2013. There were two main components to our Lab's involvment at PyCon; the Education Summit, and the Poster Session.

Details about the PyCon EDU Summit can be found here, but here are the broad strokes:

The education summit takes place on Thursday, March 14, the day before the main tracks of PyCon begin, so that summit attendees will be able to attend all of the regular talks.

The summit is scheduled to run all day, from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm, with breaks in the morning and afternoon and one hour for lunch. The morning session will tentatively include a keynote speaker and 3 panel discussions (audience participation encouraged) on the three general areas of the summit - engagement, curriculum and teaching. The afternoon session will be an unconference workshop where attendees can gather into interest groups to discus the issues raised in the morning.

Here is the tentative schedule:

• 9:00 - 9:15 Welcome

• 9:15 - 9:55 Keynote

• 10:10 - 10:45 Panel #1, "Curriculum"

• 10:50 - 11:25 Panel #2, "Teaching"

• 11:30 - 12:05 Panel #3, "Engagement"

• Lunch

• 1:15 - 4:30 Workshop/Unconference