Talks and publications
scholarly talks
- Gregory W. Hislop, Heidi J.C. Ellis, Matthew C. Jadud, and Mel Chua, “Open Source Software Education: Opportunities and Challenges.” Panel session at SIGCSE, March 10, 2011, Dallas, TX, USA.
- Mel Chua and Sebastian Dziallas, “Engineering Education + Open Source = Great Justice.” invited IGNITE talk, Engineer of the Future 3.0, November 14, 2010, Champaign, IL, USA.
- Heidi J.C. Ellis, Gregory W. Hislop, Mel Chua, Clif Kussmaul, and Matthew M. Burke, “Teaching Students to Participate in Open Source Projects.” Frontiers in Education, October 2010, Arlington, VA, USA. [IEEE Xplore]
open source talks
- Sebastian Dziallas and Mel Chua, “Open Source Textbooks & Collaboration Workflows,” EduComm, June 2011, Orlando, FL, USA.
- Mel Chua and Sebastian Dziallas, “Curious artifacts: making FOSS materials make sense to learners,” POSSCON, March 2011, Columbia, SC, USA.
- Mel Chua, “Glorious Failures in FOSS and Education,” talk given at Ohio LinuxFest, October 2010, Columbus, OH, USA.
- Karsten Wade and Mel Chua, “5 FOSS in Edu Projects that Changed the World,” talk given at OSCON, July 2010, Portland, OR, USA.
- Mel Chua and Asheesh Laroia, “Junior Jobs and Bite-sized Bugs: Entry Points for New Contributors to Open Source,” talk given at OSCON, July 2010, Portlan, OR, USA. Covered by Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier in this LWN article.
- Mel Chua, “Invisible Tracebacks,” talk given at Ontario LinuxFest, October 2009, Toronto, Canada. Rikki Endsley did an interview of me immediately after my talk.
opensource.com
I’m a regular author on opensource.com, usually in the education channel. You can see all my articles here, but a few of my favorites are:
- I can’t bake croissants: a fable on project documentation (March 4, 2011)
- Three unspoken blockers that prevent professors from teaching open source community participation (November 17, 2010)
POSSE
The Professors’ Open Source Summer Experience, a faculty education program I run for Red Hat, deserves its own section; see the Red Hat press release.





