Re: Open Source class... starting tomorrow

2017-01-21 Thread Scott Wilson
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

Re: What might an open source class look like?

2015-05-07 Thread Scott Wilson
On 7 May 2015, at 08:50, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 06:42:48PM -0500, Daniel Ruggeri wrote: >> I think this is really neat and exciting but a challenge at the same >> time. Since the idea was planted in my head w/ the ASF, I thought it >> would be a good idea to float th

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-07 Thread Scott Wilson
On 6 Jan 2015, at 17:28, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi, > > Creating such a model has been on my todo list for ages, and in a > related discussion on board@ people seem to agree that having this can > be useful. > > So let's start - here's my rough initial list of items: > > Code: open, disc

Re: A maturity model for Apache projects

2015-01-07 Thread Scott Wilson
On 7 Jan 2015, at 08:55, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Mike Drob wrote: >> ...I understand the value of measuring maturity after a project has left the >> Incubator, but I also don't know that we want to put an additional set of >> checkboxes on projects. Either you

Semester of Code

2014-08-14 Thread Scott Wilson
On a related note, the Semester of Code pilot programme is now open; this is a programme coordinating students from a number of different universities who want to work with FOSS projects. If you'd like to mentor students working on your Apache project, follow the sign up info below. -S ~~~ T