Uh, I thought the point of Bonnie's posting to this list was to
generate comments on Guzdial’s blog.
Bonnie,
Was that your intention?
Everyone,
I think if this conversation happens only within this list Mark
Guzdial’s opinion will carry more weight because it is more public.
Do you want that t
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 03:33:13PM -0500, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Hi,
> So I am begging all of you professors, instructors, etc.to please approach
> FOSS
> projects for help. We are happy to help you out.
>
> --joel sherrill
> RTEMS
Just a few clarifications:
from what I read (using cheese on
On 09/09/2011 03:40 PM, Bonnie MacKellar wrote:
Mark Guzdial’s blog on computer science education has a somewhat
negative post today on the usefulness of involving undergrads in open
source development.
Guzdial has posted similar sentiments about open source development
before; see
http://cac
Hi all -
I agree that involving undergrad students tends to provide some large codebase
experience with little access to the established developer community. However,
no undergrad module is going to succeed in being all things to all people. For
me, getting my students involved in the codebase
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:33 PM, joel.sherr...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
relevant comments
>
> So I am begging all of you professors, instructors, etc.to please approach
> FOSS
> projects for help. We are happy to help you out.
>
Just a funny happenstance to record for posterity:
One really has
Hi Bonnie,
I hadn't checked my reader yet today.
Mark is right: it isn't an apprenticeship model. That said, neither
the community nor educators working on getting their students engaged
believe that is what will happen in fourteen weeks. So, it's a kind of
vacuous concern: the people doing it ar
Hi,
I have been reading this list since its inception and sometimes
popping my head out from under the rock to post. After lurking on
this thread for a while, I couldn't help but wade in. I am the
maintainer of RTEMS (free real-time operating system) and very
interested in it being used in educa
Mark Guzdial's blog on computer science education has a somewhat negative post
today on the usefulness of involving undergrads in open source development. He
says that while students may be getting good experience working with a large
codebase, they aren't getting access to the extablished devel
