> In the future repetition of this class (not decided yet), I will limit > students to using local resources only, and do some screening before > allowing them to post in debian mailing lists. I would also be happy to > invite any debian developers who are willing to teach university students > on Debian culture/development/packaging/maintenance and guest lectures > (remotely) - I will reach out in the future.
I've done some teaching at work on how to do debian packaging. My coworkers
are kinda forced to interact with the process because we use debian and
ubuntu, and I'd like them to become more independent.
Anyway I've told them that the crappy packages we do would never be accepted
in debian, and I tried to convince the more skilled ones to actually do
packaging for real that I could sponsor, but they didn't show long term
interest enough.
I'm likely going to do a guest lecture about debian packaging next spring
within the operating systems course in university of catania.
But there won't be any points given or not given in the course itself if one
decides to follow up and do a package for real or not.
I think it would be counter productive to try and force motivation where it
doesn't exist.
It's good to tell them about licenses I think… at work there's plenty of
people who just use whatever and then are completely caught by surprise when
they find out you can't just do whatever you want with free software. I've been
repeatedly harassed for having used GPL license.
I am not sure how licenses and debian fit into bioinformatics? It should
possibly be more like sw engineering or operating systems…
Best
--
Salvo Tomaselli
"Io non mi sento obbligato a credere che lo stesso Dio che ci ha dotato di
senso, ragione ed intelletto intendesse che noi ne facessimo a meno."
-- Galileo Galilei
https://ltworf.codeberg.page/
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