When we were at OSU talking about the 'Practical OSS Exploration' textbook, Tim Budd made a comment that I paraphrase as: "This material is good but there isn't enough to teach more than two weeks."
What's missing, as we discussed, is all the material that gives a more full picture of participation in a FOSS community. What we have right now is very task oriented learning, so you could sit down and read through/conduct the exercises within that few weeks. What I imagine we need are topics that provide broader information and invite discussion, contemplation, and thought change. Such as: * History - what are things like now and how did things get to be this way? * Community cultures - different types of communities and how they interact. Explanation of communities of practice. * Open communities and diversity - there are significant disparities and non-trivial problems, some of what and why. * Licensing the Code - concepts about copyright, copyleft, different types of licenses, and effects of those choices on the code and community. * Threats and risks to and from FOSS - review of what can go wrong and consequences; what FUD is and how it's handled. What people forget and do wrong all the time. * Open for Business - Free software, open source software, and business. Different business models around FOSS to the present. * Who else practices the open source way - how open source has influenced other disciplines in terms of core principles (NOT using software but contribution cultures). Sources for this content: Wikipedia and other CC licensed sources; theopensourceway.org; original content production. Other ideas? Expansions? - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41
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