I like this, and can imagine classroom activities & assignments that use FOSS data models to help students learn about the FOSS project and database principles and practices at the same time. Do you have classroom or homework content you are willing to share?
Clif --- Clif Kussmaul c...@kussmaul.org http://kussmaul.org +1-484-893-0255 EDT=GMT-5 (he/him) -----Original Message----- Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 19:41:43 +0200 From: Francesco Maiorana <fmaio...@gmail.com> To: tos@teachingopensource.org Subject: Re: [TOS] any interest in activities to introduce FOSS projects? Message-ID: <cajm2u0x2sdroswuhuczunvnmjkyfd9aomegxvk42dg4o6jd...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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) > > _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/
