Great! Thanks. Wes
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:21 AM shivananda poojara < shivananda.pooj...@ritindia.edu> wrote: > Hi Wes, > Thanks for your information and blog it's nice to many project ideas. > Me ans my students will explore more about it in this semester. > Thanks > > Thanks > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, 7:34 p.m. Wes Turner, <wdtur...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Heidi, >> >> Nice page! I will show it to the student coordinators at RCOS this coming >> semester! >> >> Along the same lines, I am interested in exploring collaborative open >> source efforts across academic institutions. For those of you who are >> unfamiliar with with the Rensselaer Center for Open Source (RCOS), it is a >> largely student led organization with a 12 year history of promoting open >> source. Every semester, the CS department here at Rensselaer Polytechnic >> Institute (RPI) runs a course that serves as an umbrella for students to do >> independent study under RCOS. During the first 2 weeks of any given >> semester the students propose, adopt, or initiate open source projects that >> they then work on for the rest of the semester (and often beyond). Projects >> frequently span multiple semesters and we have had some success >> transitioning the projects as the founders graduate and new underclassmen >> enter RCOS. The list of "active" projects for a semester can be found at >> https://rcos.io/projects and past projects can be found by clicking on >> the "past" button at the upper right. Note, that "past" projects in one >> semester are often resurrected, so "past" does not necessarily mean "dead". >> >> Anyway, I am interested in exploring models for us to open this up to >> other institutions and to encourage cross-institution cooperation. I will >> put some pointers on my TOS profile as we get closer to the Fall including >> the pointer to active/recommended projects, but if anyone is interested in >> exploring this type of interaction, please let me know. Some of the >> questions I need to answer would be: >> >> 1. What type of support would you need to be able to join a student >> led open source project? >> 2. How would we coordinate project generation and team formation? >> 3. How would we manage project governance? >> 4. ... >> >> I have some ideas on all of these, but until we actually start working >> together, it is hard to know how viable they actually are. >> >> I think there could be something fun and valuable in academic focussed >> open source collaboration. >> >> Wes Turner >> >> -- >> * Wesley D. Turner, Ph.D. * Director of the Rensselaer Center for Open >> Source and Senior Lecturer | Department of Computer Science | Rensselaer >> Polytechnic Institute | 110 8th Street | Troy, New York 12180-3590 | >> turn...@rpi.edu | (518)276-8184 >> >> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 9:57 PM Shobha Tyagi <tyagisho...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Heidi I am for sure going to work with it. >>> thanks, >>> Shobha >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 3:53 AM, Becka Morgan <morg...@mail.wou.edu> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> This is awesome!! Thank you Heidi. >>>> >>>> Becka >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:15 PM Heidi Ellis <heidi.el...@wne.edu> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Folks, >>>>> >>>>> As we all know, finding appropriate HFOSS projects in which students >>>>> can >>>>> participate and make contributions can be difficult. I would like to >>>>> bring an emerging effort to your attention: >>>>> >>>>> https://oviohub.com/ >>>>> >>>>> OvioHub has the goal of facilitating collaboration between tech >>>>> volunteers including students and HFOSS organizations. The OvioHub >>>>> effort started late last year and so is still getting started. However >>>>> the core idea of matching students/tech volunteers to projects with >>>>> contacts within the projects is very helpful. >>>>> >>>>> Thought you all might be interested in this new site! >>>>> >>>>> Heidi >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> tos mailing list >>>>> tos@teachingopensource.org >>>>> http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos >>>>> TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/ >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> Dr. Becka Morgan | she, her, hers >>>> Associate Professor >>>> Division of Computer Science >>>> College of Liberal Arts and Sciences - Western Oregon University >>>> Email: morg...@wou.edu >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> tos mailing list >>>> tos@teachingopensource.org >>>> http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos >>>> TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/ >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> tos mailing list >>> tos@teachingopensource.org >>> http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos >>> TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/ >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> tos mailing list >> tos@teachingopensource.org >> http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos >> TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/ >> >
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