Education Committee Meeting: May 19, 2021

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Education Committee Meeting

May 19, 2021

Start Time: 12:00 PM ET

Meeting Attendees:

• Brian Jablonsky
• Beth Massi
• Bill Wagner
• Rodney Littles II
• Johan Smarius

Staff Observers:

• Terracia King
• Tom Pappas

Meeting Notes

INTRODUCTION

Brian Jablonsky, the Education Committee Chair, gave a quick introduction.

BACKGROUND ON “.NET BOOTCAMP”

Brian presented the background on the .NET Bootcamp. He gave an overview of the .NET Bootcamp’s initiative. The goal is to create and run a 12-week course that teaches full stack web development using .NET for current computer science students who already understand computer programming fundamentals. The Committee aims to launch in Fall 2021. The program will target students who are already enrolled in higher education computer science courses. The Bootcamp will be taught online once a week. Each lecture/workshop class will last 2.5 hours. The future goal would be to provide the Bootcamp’s course materials to other colleges around the world. The Education Committee held a discussion around the course outline.

NAMING OF THE INITIATIVE

The Education Committee discussed rather “.NET Bootcamp” is an acceptable name. The following names were suggested:

• .NET Practicum Series
• .NET University
• .NET Academy
• .NET Primer

ACTION: Brian Jablonsky to create an issue in the Education Committee’s repository to discuss names.

SCHEDULING A RECURRING MEETING

The Education Committee agreed to host the Committee meetings on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays from 11am -12pm ET.

ACTIONS: Terracia King to schedule reoccurring Education Committee meetings.

EDUCATION COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP PROCESS

The Education Committee discussed rather to open the Committee to all members or only allow a core group. The Committee agreed to keep the group open to all members.

COMMUNICATION PROCESS

The Education Committee discussed ways the Education Committee will communicate asynchronously. Most of the communication will be held by creating issues in the Education Committee’s GitHub repository. The projects will be tracked in the Projects section. All meetings, slides, minutes, and recordings will be committed by Code. GitHub teams will be used for internal Committee work.

PROMOTING THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE/BOOTCAMP INITIATIVE

The Education Committee discussed the ways to promote the Education Committee. They plan to update the website, make a blog post, add verbiage to the upcoming .NET Foundation’s Newsletter, create tweets, create a landing page for students, and creating a mailing list. The Committee plans will partner with the Marketing Committee on creating a communication plan.

HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF IMPORTANT TASK FOR FALL COHORT

The Education Committee reviewed the outstanding task due prior to the first cohort. The following task was discussed:

• Review Course Curriculum
• Create Student Application Process
• Promote .NET Bootcamp
• Evaluate Applications and Accept Students
• Schedule First Course
• Enhance/Alter Existing Slide Decks
• Enhance Documentation
• Dry-Run Each Lecture
• Sponsorships/Demo Night

The meeting adjourned at 1:09 PM ET.