Re: [TOS] Suggestions for Single Lecture about Open Source

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Open source licenses to be covered.
FOSS development life cycle
version control, issue tracker, project mgt tool


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On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 6:00 AM Heidi Ellis  wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> Great question!  You might be interested in the Open Educators Guide
> which contains experience reports from a variety of educators from a
> range of backgrounds:
>
> https://opensource.com/open-organization/resources/educators-guide
>
> An interesting article about open source governance models:
>
> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/understanding-open-source-governance-models
>
> Brandeis has a series of micro-courses on open source that have some
> interesting topics that might provide ideas:
>
>
> https://www.brandeis.edu/gps/professional-development/micro-courses/ostm/courses.html#business-practices
>
> Any one else have ideas?
>
> Heidi
>
>
> On 10/13/21 2:22 PM, Dave Lillethun wrote:
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> >
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I was hoping I could pick your brains for some ideas  I will have a
> > *single* class period to teach a small class (about 20) of *non-majors*
> > about open source.  For context, the course is about technology and
> > public policy, and the students do not all have a strong technology
> > backgrounds (many of them have backgrounds in social sciences and other
> > fields related to public policy), although they have all taken at least
> > a single introductory programming course before this one.
> >
> > Beyond the obvious "what is open source?", etc.  What other sorts of
> > things do you think would be valuable for these non-majors working at
> > the intersection of tech and public policy to know about open source?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> > - Dave
> >
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Re: [TOS] Suggestions for Single Lecture about Open Source

[Dr. Bryan G. Behrenshausen]

Hi Dave,

> I was hoping I could pick your brains for some ideas  I will have a 
> *single* class period to teach a small class (about 20) of *non-majors* 
> about open source.  For context, the course is about technology and 
> public policy, and the students do not all have a strong technology 
> backgrounds (many of them have backgrounds in social sciences and other 
> fields related to public policy), although they have all taken at least 
> a single introductory programming course before this one.
> 
> Beyond the obvious "what is open source?", etc.  What other sorts of 
> things do you think would be valuable for these non-majors working at 
> the intersection of tech and public policy to know about open source?

I've taught at the conceptual intersection you're describing here and found it
to be a very rich and rewarding space for conversation. Students studying public
policy tend to care about issues of transparency, access, governance,
distribution of resources, etc., so I've used concepts like these as points of
entry into a discussion of open source as a mechanism for enforcing a particular
vision of society. Students have responded well to deep dives, e.g., into both
the free software and open source definitions, because they establish conceptual
parameters for what morphs into policy. You might consider pairing the
discussion with something from Lawrence Lessig ("Code is Law," "Free Culture"),
as his writing operates at this intersection, tends to be short and accessible,
and speaks a language these students are already speaking.

While I appreciate others' suggestions regarding introductions to tooling and
infrastructure, I've found that these are not always of interest to complete
novices, nor are they typically necessary for imparting the basics of *what*
open source is and *why* it exists. Students seriously interested in learning
more (even participating) will eventually begin asking the *how* question, which
is when tooling and infrastructure become most pressing for them.

So my recommendation is to begin with higher-level topics, focusing on the
social, cultural, and economic implications of open source as a concept, seeing
how students respond from the standpoint of governance, licensing and policy.

BB

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Re: [TOS] Suggestions for Single Lecture about Open Source

[Braught, Grant]

Hi Dave,

Here is a link to a class period on Open Source from my introduction to 
computing course that might be of interest:

https://dickinson-comp130.github.io/COMP130/classes/class03.html

Some context:

* This is our first course so many students have never programmed before.
* I do this session on the 3rd day of class after a day on Algorithmic Thinking 
and a day on Algorithms and Ethics.
* The overall theme for this day is “Computing and the Greater Good.” But it 
uses Open Source and Humanitarian Open Source as examples of ways to apply 
computing to problems that matter to communities.
* The main idea here is to plant seeds early that computing has social value in 
addition to the business value that they all are well aware of.

* They do some reading and prep before class.
* Then we do the in class activities in small discussion groups with report 
outs to the full class.

* The in class activities have them look at some open source with humanitarian 
goals, think about the communities and missions around the project.
* They learn just a little bit about what it means for software to be open 
source, how open source development works, and licensing.
* They touch on permissive and copyleft and think about the tradeoffs between 
associated with copyleft and in particular its potential social value.

Happy to discuss more if you like.  Just get in touch.

Best,
Grant



From: Dave Lillethun 
mailto:david.lillet...@tufts.edu>>
Subject: [TOS] Suggestions for Single Lecture about Open Source
...
I was hoping I could pick your brains for some ideas? I will have a
*single* class period to teach a small class (about 20) of *non-majors*
about open source.?
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Re: [TOS] Deb Bryan gives TOS a Shout Out!

[Forrest Taylor]

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Nice!

On Wed, 2021-10-13 at 23:55 +, Heidi Ellis wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> TOS is getting some press! Deb Bryant, Senior Director, Open Source
> Program Office at Red Hat, mentioned TeachingOpenSource as one
> example community in her article "6 Examples Of Open Source Best
> Practices In Knowledge-Sharing Projects". We're in great company with
> the OSI, TODO Group, IEEE SA-OPEN, The Open Source Way, and The Open
> Organization. 
> Enjoy!
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Re: [TOS] Deb Bryan gives TOS a Shout Out!

[Karsten Wade]

Hello Heidi and everyone,

*smacks head* I totally forgot to alert you all when that post went up.
Thanks all for making it easy to highlight your great work.

Does it seem in the last few/recent years there has been an increase in
open knowledge sharing communities? Especially when you consider the span
of open works (to swipe a phrase from Stephen Jacobs et al), it's almost
its own category of open source activity.

Kind regards,
- Karsten

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 4:55 PM Heidi Ellis  wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> TOS is getting some press! Deb Bryant, Senior Director, Open Source
> Program Office at Red Hat, mentioned TeachingOpenSource as one example
> community in her article "6 Examples Of Open Source Best Practices In
> Knowledge-Sharing Projects
> ".
> We're in great company with the OSI, TODO Group, IEEE SA-OPEN, The Open
> Source Way, and The Open Organization.
>
> Enjoy!
>
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Re: [TOS] Suggestions for Single Lecture about Open Source

[Matt Jadud]

Hi Dave,

I was CS faculty for a number of years, and then moved into civic tech.

If you can give enough lead time, perhaps I could get a colleague at 18F to
join for a Q&A/discussion with your class.

18F is a federal civic tech unit embedded within the GSA.

https://18f.gsa.gov/

I know I could chat with students (we all need lead time to get permission
to speak about our work, even though it is open/public), but we can also
find more interesting people. :)

To give a sense for the breadth of things I have found myself doing as an
engineer over the past year:

* Helping libraries understand how people use their services. (
https://github.com/18f/imls-pi-stack)
* Responding to and supporting workforce (federal, contractor) policy (
https://github.com/18f/vaccine-attestation)
* Develop courses to support learning for people responsible for the
oversight of billions of dollars of health IT spending (
https://cmsgov.github.io/MES-StateOfficerMD/)

(Wow. That last sentence would not pass the plain language test.)

These speak pretty broadly to the range of experiences you could have at
the intersection of civic tech and computing. (There's other
pointers/people who live a bit closer to the policy end, but ultimately, we
still live in a world where technologists are rarely in the room when the
policy happens. That's kinda sad. Your students could fix that for us
someday!)

Cheers,
Matt


On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 2:22 PM Dave Lillethun 
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I was hoping I could pick your brains for some ideas  I will have a
> *single* class period to teach a small class (about 20) of *non-majors*
> about open source.  For context, the course is about technology and
> public policy, and the students do not all have a strong technology
> backgrounds (many of them have backgrounds in social sciences and other
> fields related to public policy), although they have all taken at least
> a single introductory programming course before this one.
>
> Beyond the obvious "what is open source?", etc.  What other sorts of
> things do you think would be valuable for these non-majors working at
> the intersection of tech and public policy to know about open source?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> - Dave
>
>
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