Some years ago I experimented, in a Database course, with MusicBrainz https://musicbrainz.org/doc/About/Data_License Students loved the idea (music) and it gave the possibility to dig deeper into the topic (Database) starting from the ER schema https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Database/Schema
Francesco On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 at 14:00, <tos-requ...@teachingopensource.org> wrote: > Send tos mailing list submissions to > tos@teachingopensource.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > tos-requ...@teachingopensource.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > tos-ow...@teachingopensource.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of tos digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. any interest in activities to introduce FOSS projects? > (Clif Kussmaul) > 2. Re: any interest in activities to introduce FOSS projects? > (Joel Sherrill) > 3. Re: any interest in activities to introduce FOSS projects? > (Emma Irwin) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 12:32:09 -0400 > From: "Clif Kussmaul" <clifkussm...@gmail.com> > To: <tos@teachingopensource.org> > Subject: [TOS] any interest in activities to introduce FOSS projects? > Message-ID: <0b3801d4fd16$c2f745c0$48e5d140$@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi everyone, > > A year or so ago, I went to a library open house where students and faculty > demoed FOSS tools like Audacity, FreeMind, Inkscape, GIMP, & WordPress. > However, no one I talked to had participated in their project's community. > This seems like a missed opportunity, especially for someone who uses one > project heavily (e.g. a musician who uses MuseScore, a designer who uses > InkScape). > > > > Thus, I'd like to develop some activities to help non-technical people > learn > more about a specific FOSS project, and how to access it's online resources > and interact with the community. I plan to start with Audacity & MuseScore. > Please let me know if you have other project suggestions, or would like to > work together on such activities. My hope is that after the first few we > can > create a template to make it easier to do more. > > > > Clif > --- > Clif Kussmaul <mailto:c...@kussmaul.org> c...@kussmaul.org > <http://kussmaul.org/> http://kussmaul.org +1-484-893-0255 EDT=GMT-5 > (he/him) > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/pipermail/tos/attachments/20190427/c455cc5d/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 16:22:17 -0400 > From: Joel Sherrill <joel.sherr...@gmail.com> > To: Clif Kussmaul <clifkussm...@gmail.com> > Cc: tos <tos@teachingopensource.org> > Subject: Re: [TOS] any interest in activities to introduce FOSS > projects? > Message-ID: > <CAF9ehCU4e2GHTG31WN= > bydlo+f5bc+twm_pghxunxpufkti...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 11:32 AM Clif Kussmaul <clifkussm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > A year or so ago, I went to a library open house where students and > > faculty demoed FOSS tools like Audacity, FreeMind, Inkscape, GIMP, & > > WordPress. However, no one I talked to had participated in their > project?s > > community. This seems like a missed opportunity, especially for someone > who > > uses one project heavily (e.g. a musician who uses MuseScore, a designer > > who uses InkScape). > > > > > > > > Thus, I?d like to develop some activities to help non-technical people > > learn more about a specific FOSS project, and how to access it?s online > > resources and interact with the community. I plan to start with Audacity > & > > MuseScore. Please let me know if you have other project suggestions, or > > would like to work together on such activities. My hope is that after the > > first few we can create a template to make it easier to do more. > > > > I'm the project lead for RTEMS.org which is a free real-time operating > system. Our users are primarily technical but we do end up with experienced > developers a d students who have no embedded cross development experience. > > With that background, every open source project needs documentation to > market the project to find these potential users, on-ramp them from > different backgrounds and skills levels, and introduce them to the project > resources. > > There also needs to be comparable documentation for on-ramping contributors > like developers, patch submitters, documentation fixes, etc. > > Some of the projects you mention have been Google Summer of Code > participants so should have some new developer focused content. > > Personally I like patterns. If you are looking across a set of projects > like it sounds, define roles and what should be in place. Including a > suggestion on organisation of it all and artifact names. This could develop > into a standard model and that would help new users and open source > organisations since they would have a roadmap. > > Remember every document should have a well-defined audience and scope. > > Some of the documents may be related to the business cases associated with > using the software. A standard I work with has a business and technical > side to ensure there business barriers to adoption are addressed. > > That's just random thoughts. > > --joel > > > > > > > Clif > > --- > > Clif Kussmaul c...@kussmaul.org http://kussmaul.org +1-484-893-0255 > > EDT=GMT-5 (he/him) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tos mailing list > > tos@teachingopensource.org > > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > > TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/ > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/pipermail/tos/attachments/20190427/395a80ad/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 15:24:27 -0700 > From: Emma Irwin <emma.ir...@gmail.com> > To: Clif Kussmaul <clifkussm...@gmail.com> > Cc: Discussions about Teaching Open Source > <tos@teachingopensource.org> > Subject: Re: [TOS] any interest in activities to introduce FOSS > projects? > Message-ID: > <CA+YSYVFLoPN0sqMD+zBTt1_hXkTQbAVra= > gb8hpicx36kbe...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Common Voice <https://voice.mozilla.org/en>is a great introduction to > contributing (open voice dataset). Super simple, and gives that ahaha > moment I think inspires students dig deeper into the topic. > > On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 9:32 AM Clif Kussmaul <clifkussm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > A year or so ago, I went to a library open house where students and > > faculty demoed FOSS tools like Audacity, FreeMind, Inkscape, GIMP, & > > WordPress. However, no one I talked to had participated in their > project?s > > community. This seems like a missed opportunity, especially for someone > who > > uses one project heavily (e.g. a musician who uses MuseScore, a designer > > who uses InkScape). > > > > > > > > Thus, I?d like to develop some activities to help non-technical people > > learn more about a specific FOSS project, and how to access it?s online > > resources and interact with the community. I plan to start with Audacity > & > > MuseScore. Please let me know if you have other project suggestions, or > > would like to work together on such activities. My hope is that after the > > first few we can create a template to make it easier to do more. > > > > > > > > Clif > > --- > > Clif Kussmaul c...@kussmaul.org http://kussmaul.org +1-484-893-0255 > > EDT=GMT-5 (he/him) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tos mailing list > > tos@teachingopensource.org > > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > > TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/ > > > > > -- > -- Emma Irwin > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/pipermail/tos/attachments/20190427/97db7737/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/ > > > ------------------------------ > > End of tos Digest, Vol 111, Issue 7 > *********************************** > -- Francesco Maiorana <https://sites.google.com/site/maioranafrancescospes/>
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