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We have scheduled a field trip to Massachusetts to visit some technology sites and learn and work with people there.

We have scheduled a field trip to Massachusetts to visit some technology sites and learn and work with people there.

This page is a collaborative planning site for this trip.

This page is a collaborative planning site for this trip.

==Rough Schedule==

==Rough Schedule (getting polished)==

# Leave Rochester on 10 August for the Boston area to collect or meet up with Eric, Tyler, Dave and stay in a youth hostel, [http://bostonhostel.org/about.shtml Hostelling International-Boston].

Adjustments or additional suggestions welcome.

### School Server deployment and development issues (I've invited Dave Bauer to join us, if he can come, a School Server track would be very valuable for all.)

* Dave Farning could make (perhaps less expensive roundtrip) flights to & from Rochester or fly to Boston and return with us to Rochester to stay with me for a couple of days to visit RIT and meet the available faculty.

* Rochester area folks would take a 1 or 2 cars (depending on the number joining from Rochester) and proceed to hostel site.

* Drive to Boston (Fred, Wesley, & Karlie from Rochester; David arriving separately)

* Adam Holt may drive back with us to Rochester.

* ~5 pm - Check in to Hostel, http://bostonhostel.org/about.shtml

* 6:00 pm - [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=12+Hemenway+St,+Boston,+MA+02115&daddr=33+Dunster+Street+Cambridge,+MA+02138&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&dirflg=r&date=08%2F10%2F09&time=6:00pm&ttype=dep&noexp=0&noal=0&sort=&tline=&sll=42.360066,-71.090727&sspn=0.090694,0.133381&ie=UTF8&z=14&start=0 Bus to Harvard Square] (25 minutes)

* 7:00 pm reservations - Dinner out with Mel Chua at [http://www.johnharvards.com/locations.shtml#ma John Harvard's Brew House], learn the '''[http://www.mbta.com/ T]''', etc.

** Pre-dinner - Introductions and Reintroductions

** Dinner and post-Dinner topic - "What we've learned as OLPC/Sugar Labs students about working in the FLOSS environment as RIT students, co-ops, and associates"  (a small group self-evaluation session, with Mel Chua as sole guest beyond the 6 in our group)&mdash;''A serious topic for dinner, so we will punctuate the discussion with food and drink to ease our inhibitions and anxiety.''

**# Difficulties we've encountered

**# Personal learnings, such as dealing with our own and other's lack of knowledge or skill.

*:This should give us a good sense of our expectations, limitations, and potentials for the time ahead of us.

Please add more specific suggestions.

See [http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/RIT this Teaching Open Source wiki page] for a report of our Friday workshop that followed up on the ideas raised in this discussion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hoping others can offer some suggestions and support.

Hoping others can offer some suggestions and support.

===Participants===

==Participants==

* Frederick Grose, Rochester, 10 - 18 August, room for 3 others at my house in Rochester, room for 3 others in my car.

* Frederick Grose, Rochester, 10 - 18 August, room for 3 others at my house in Rochester, room for 3 others in my car.

* David Farning, Wisconsin, , room with Fred in Rochester

* David Farning, Wisconsin, , room with Fred in Rochester

* Project teams may be uncertain of the benefits of "hosting" a short-term 'work & tour' party or crew in a project that is still forming a stable base.  It may not be a good idea and turn out to be a distraction because it's hard to define expectations.  Not knowing what practical service or resource we could provide in a few days of service, makes it hard to generate interest.  We would look at it like campground trail maintenance or kitchen patrol--an indirect learning and load-sharing opportunity.

* Project teams may be uncertain of the benefits of "hosting" a short-term 'work & tour' party or crew in a project that is still forming a stable base.  It may not be a good idea and turn out to be a distraction because it's hard to define expectations.  Not knowing what practical service or resource we could provide in a few days of service, makes it hard to generate interest.  We would look at it like campground trail maintenance or kitchen patrol--an indirect learning and load-sharing opportunity.