From davidson.jennif at gmail.com Sat Mar 29 16:05:11 2014 From: davidson.jennif at gmail.com (Jen D) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 09:05:11 -0700 Subject: [Announce] An opportunity to get more older adults into open source Message-ID: Hello LinuxChix, I'm working on a Portland-based workshop as part of a research study to teach folks who are 50 years and older how to contribute to FOSS. Do you know of any people 50 years and older with software technical experience (documentation, QA, management, coding, graphic design, etc.) who want to learn how to contribute to FOSS for the first time? Co-workers? Parents? Send them my way! *Workshop Dates (both will be at the Mozilla office in downtown Portland):* - Main workshop (must attend in-person): Saturday April 26th - 9am-3pm - Follow-up meeting (can be attended virtually if need be): Saturday May 10th - 9am - 11am Below is the full recruitment email (and can be accessed here: http://people.oregonstate.edu/~davidsje/researchForms/ groupD/jensen_recruitment_email_groupD_02062014.pdf): "Hello, Researchers at Oregon State University are conducting research to learn how to enable older adults to contribute to free/open source software. We are interested in investigating how to increase age diversity in these communities. We're looking for individuals who (individuals will be excluded from the study if they do not meet these criteria): * Are 50 years old or above, * Have technical expertise related to software development. * Are fluent in English * Have never contributed to free/open source software * Have an interest in contributing to free/open source software Participation in this research study involves: * Attendance to a workshop in the Portland area where we will help you learn how to contribute to free/open source software. * 2 weeks contributing to an open source software project, on your own time. * Attendance to a follow-up meeting in the Portland area to share experiences with other workshop attendees * Food and beverage during the workshop and follow-up meeting * Reimbursement for parking or transit passes for the workshop and follow-up meeting * Aiding researchers in learning how to refine a curriculum to help others contribute to free/open source software in the future The study title is Involving Older Adults in the Design and Development of Free/Open Source Software - Part 2. The principle investigator is Dr. Carlos Jensen. If you would like to participate in the study, please read through the eligibility document and the consent document [1]. Please email us at davidsje at onid.orst.edu to set up a time to go over the consent document, determine eligibility, and to give you the pre-workshop questionnaire. If you know of anyone who may be interested in participating, please forward this email along, and CC davidsje at onid.orst.edu. Thank you, Jennifer Davidson davidsje at onid.orst.edu Cell: 858-472-4860 Carlos Jensen cjensen at eecs.oregonstate.edu [1] people.oregonstate.edu/~davidsje/researchForms/groupD/ " Jennifer Davidson Human-Computer Interaction PhD Candidate, Oregon State University Program Manager @ChickTechOrg Community Manager @Privly