Teacher takeover at GitHub Universe: Call for Proposals

[mozzadrella (Vanessa)]

hi teachers. Got some exciting news!

##GitHub Universe is coming 10-12 October in San Francisco and the Call for Papers is open.

##Key data:

• The due date for submissions is 30 June 2017
• You can find the full details here: http://cfp.githubapp.com/events/github-universe-2017
• The selection process is blind, but if you want to talk about your idea, grab a meeting with me to talk through your idea: https://calendly.com/mozzadrella/30-minute-meeting/06-08-2017

Would love to see talks from teachers doing innovative things with GitHub and learning.

[ovflowd (Claudio Santoro)]

Woah, does GitHub Universe has really call for papers?

So GitHub does have their own Journal or what? IPF it’s what?

[mozzadrella (Vanessa)]

@sant0ro GitHub doesn’t have a scholarly journal if that’s what you mean, but the call for proposals is for our user conference.

[ovflowd (Claudio Santoro)]

Oh I see, so what kinda of papers does GitHub expects? It’s possible to propose an academic paper, like something related to the “Internet of Things” scenario?

I just doesn’t understand correctly what it’s this call of paper.

[nihonjinrxs (Ryan B. Harvey)]

I don’t work for GitHub, so this is my interpretation of things. I think it’s more like a call for talk proposals than a traditional call for papers as you might expect from an academic conference or journal. There’s a bit of information in the CFP site on what they’re looking for. Assuming you can fit your talk cleanly within one of the 4 tracks (Code, Architecture, Operations, People), the rest of the guidelines are pretty broad, so should be fine.