BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CiviCRM//NONSGML CiviEvent iCal//EN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260513T110000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:CiviCRM_EventID_332_faa077a2cac59a8cde21b6bdb5aff521@apereo.civicrm.org SUMMARY:Apereo Micro Conference: May 13\, 2026 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

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The Sustainable Impact and Innovation Pipeline (SIIP)

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Date: May 13\, 2026
\n Time: 11:00 AM America/New_York
\n Presenter(s): Bryan Ollendyke - Full-stack developer / Change Agent / HAX Proj ect Lead / HAX Lab Faculty - will be joined by the following co-presenters:

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"Do more with less." It's been the ask of higher educa tion for the last 15 years (at least)\, and in the age of AI that expectation has only grown. In 201 7\, my open-source authoring platform HAX (Headles s Authoring Experience) employed four developers w ith formal responsibility for supporting online co urse development. By 2023\, post pandemic\, we had one (me). Development of HAX should have slowed t o a crawl\, yet by 2024 we saw an explosion of out put.

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What changed? My teaching.

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I stopped teaching my IST 256 students conce pts parallel to our HAX ecosystem\, and instead ta ught concepts that allowed them to move from learn ing about the web to contributing to HAX itself. I call this our Sustainable Impact and Innovation P ipeline (SIIP). This panel will primarily feature stories told by some of those involved in HAX Lab\ , from both the student and faculty perspectives. HAX Lab and the SIIP have produced dozens of web p rofessionals who have made open-source contributio ns to HAX part of their career story. Beyond the “ win-win” for HAX and the students who expand it\, the SIIP simultaneously reduces the cost of online course development at Penn State\, improves the u ser experience\, and ensures the accessibility and security of the University.

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This pane l will explain what HAX is\, what makes it unique\ , and how you can get involved. But we will emphas ize the people in the SIIP that make HAX possible. We’ll feature the range of problems students have solved and ways faculty have contributed to growi ng the ecosystem. We hope you'll find that the met hodology surrounding HAX is just as powerful as th e technology itself! We would welcome a discussion regarding how transferable the SIIP approach migh t be to your institution.

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\n \n < p>The link to access this event wi ll be included in your registration confirmation e mail.

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Please Note: The start time is 11:00am Eastern U .S. time

DESCRIPTION:\n \n \n \n The Sustainable Impact and Innovation Pipeline (SIIP)\n \n \n Date: May 13\, 2026\n \n T ime: 11:00 AM America/New_York\n \n Presenter(s):  Bryan Ollendyke - Full-stack developer / Change Ag ent / HAX Project Lead / HAX Lab Faculty - will be joined by the following co-presenters:\n \n \n \n \n Bill Rose - Instructional Designer / HAX Prod uct Owner\n Dr. Jenny Frank - Associate Professor of Educational Psychology / HAX Lab Faculty\n Dr . David Fusco - Associate Teaching Professor and D irector of Master's Programs / HAX Lab Faculty\n Winston JW White - M.S.\, Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations Software & Cybersecurity Engineer\, Open Sourcerer (not too serious)\, 2x NASA Intern \n And more...\n \n \n  \n \n \n \n \n  \n \n \n \n "Do more with less." It's been the ask of highe r education for the last 15 years (at least)\, and in the age of AI that expectation has only grown. In 2017\, my open-source authoring platform HAX ( Headless Authoring Experience) employed four devel opers with formal responsibility for supporting on line course development. By 2023\, post pandemic\, we had one (me). Development of HAX should have s lowed to a crawl\, yet by 2024 we saw an explosion of output.\n \n \n \n What changed? My teaching.\ n \n \n \n I stopped teaching my IST 256 students concepts parallel to our HAX ecosystem\, and inste ad taught concepts that allowed them to move from learning about the web to contributing to HAX itse lf. I call this our Sustainable Impact and Innovat ion Pipeline (SIIP). This panel will primarily fea ture stories told by some of those involved in HAX Lab\, from both the student and faculty perspecti ves. HAX Lab and the SIIP have produced dozens of web professionals who have made open-source contri butions to HAX part of their career story. Beyond the “win-win” for HAX and the students who expand it\, the SIIP simultaneously reduces the cost of o nline course development at Penn State\, improves the user experience\, and ensures the accessibilit y and security of the University.\n \n \n \n This panel will explain what HAX is\, what makes it uni que\, and how you can get involved. But we will em phasize the people in the SIIP that make HAX possi ble. We’ll feature the range of problems students have solved and ways faculty have contributed to g rowing the ecosystem. We hope you'll find that the methodology surrounding HAX is just as powerful a s the technology itself! We would welcome a discus sion regarding how transferable the SIIP approach might be to your institution.\n \n \n \n Links:\n \n \n \n \n Learn about HAX Lab -- https://haxthe web.org/hax-lab (https://haxtheweb.org/hax-lab)\n Article visualizing SIIP -- https://btopro.com/ha x/sustainable-impact-and-innovation-pipeline (http s://btopro.com/hax/sustainable-impact-and-innovati on-pipeline)\n Get involved with HAX -- https://g ithub.com/haxtheweb/ (https://github.com/haxtheweb /)\n \n \n  \n \n \n \n \n  \n \n \n \n The link t o access this event will be included in your regis tration confirmation email.\n \n \n \n Please Note : The start time is 11:00am Eastern U.S. time\n \n CATEGORIES:Workshop CALSCALE:GREGORIAN DTSTAMP;TZID=America/New_York:20260513T110000 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260513T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260513T120000 LOCATION:Online Event\n BigBlueButton\n URL:https://apereo.civicrm.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=332 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR