On 1/21/17 3:31 AM, Scott Wilson wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > When I taught a first year undergraduate course on FOSS the major syllabus > topics were: > > - Community > - Communications > - Governance > - Issue Tracking > - Sustainability > - Version Control > - Intellectual Property > > Each student built a case study on a project they were interested in week by > week published on Wordpress; e.g. > > https://pete1124.wordpress.com/ > https://thejibrjabr.wordpress.com/ > > … etc > > I was planning to put the content for the course on Github, but the Moodle > XML export format doesn’t exactly make it very easy… if its of interest I’d > be happy to share more!
Personally, I would be very interested in following and maybe eventually contributing to this. The challenges with collaborating using Moodle export and/or other ed content specs is an interesting problem that it would be great to solve. Have you ever done this before? Phil > >> On 20 Jan 2017, at 22:16, Daniel Ruggeri <drugg...@primary.net> wrote: >> >> Hi, Phil; >> That makes sense and I will update the syllabus to reflect the proper >> terminology. I will also plan to spend a class each on build tools and >> dependency management as those are both great tooics to include. >> -- >> Daniel Ruggeri >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> From: Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> >> Sent: January 18, 2017 8:06:48 AM CST >> To: dev@community.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Open Source class... starting tomorrow >> >> On 1/17/17 10:58 AM, Phil Steitz wrote: >>> On 1/16/17 5:14 PM, Daniel Ruggeri wrote: >>>> Hi, all; >>>> >>>> Digging up "ancient" history on this one.... >>>> >>>> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/28c8decf60ec3c79c97a62c936ec9b816da841eb3fb655144dd219ba@1430955768@%3Cdev.community.apache.org%3E >>>> >>>> >>>> I'm happy to share that tomorrow begins the first day of a class I'm >>>> teaching titled "Open Source Software Development" at University of >>>> Missouri - St. Louis in the Information Systems department. Since this >>>> community shared so many great suggestions to help shape the class, I >>>> wanted to drop a big THANK YOU to everyone. >>>> >>>> >>>> I'd also like to share the working syllabus (pardon the empty spots - >>>> we're going to figure out what our class project looks like and work on >>>> that for most of the second half): >>>> >>>> https://github.com/DRuggeri/OSSClass/blob/master/syllabus.md >>>> >>>> >>>> As with any decent, open project the material can be shaped by your >>>> contributions so don't hesitate to reply here if I missed anything >>>> really important to cover. As the course goes on, I'll be posting >>>> outlines and resources in the repository above. With luck, this could >>>> hopefully become an open curriculum anyone can pick up and teach in any >>>> university setting. >>> First, many, many thanks for doing this, Daniel! I really like the >>> idea of developing open content for use in courses like this. I >>> will keep watching the repo! >>> >>> One thing that I don't see there is build tools / systems and >>> artifact repositories. It is no accident that Ant and Maven were >>> developed @apache. Maybe after the scm discussion, you could add >>> something on making it easy to build checked out code, which is key >>> to making it easy to get involved. That would segway naturally into >>> the evolution of build and dependency management systems. >> One more thing that occurred to me after I sent above. This may >> seem like a nit, but I would recommend using the term "Issue >> Tracker" rather than "Bug Tracker." We use these things as part of >> the core collaboration machinery and managing bugs is only one thing >> that we use them for. >> >> Phil >>> Phil >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
