Thought this might be an interesting opportunity for some of our
projects...
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Today's Topics:
1. Software Engineering Students & Open Source development
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From: "A.Meiszner" <[email protected]>
Subject: [F/OSS-Community] Software Engineering Students & Open Source
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A hello to all at this list!
We are currently piloting an open approach for the course
Introduction to Software Engineering (ISE) at Aristotle University
in Greece, aimed at bringing together Aristotle students, students
from fellow universities, open source practitioners and anyone else
interested in SE.
To facilitate the students entrance to open source projects we are
now trying to organize some live events for Jan / Feb 2008 (chats,
video sessions or pod casts at ustream) that would introduce the
students to some aspects relevant to working in open source
environments.
Therefore I wondered if anyone here might be interested in chairing
one of those live events and to talk (A) about a open source project
he/she is engaged at and provide some information on experiences and
challenges, ways to contribute to it, etc and (B) about a more
generic topic relevant for newbies (e.g. understanding the code,
etc).
For this ISE course we set up an experimental open learning space (http://www.netgeners.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39&Itemid=92
) to facilitate the students work and to provide a central meeting
point for the different stakeholders.
What we would like to achieve with this is to bring together open
source development & software engineering education means to
create a win / win scenario by allowing students to gain practical
skills (plus some soft skills) meanwhile contributing to an open
source project.
The ISE course has app. 160 students per semester and the students
are supposed to carry out a project work within a open source
project, contributing to this open source project in one out of
three ways: 1. to identify (and fix) bugs, 2. to contribute to the
code, or 3. to draft / improve the requirement specification
documentation.
In the case you would know people from other open source projects
that might also be interested in chairing a live event I would be
glad if you could circulate this mail.
Hope someone here might find this of interest!
Tips or hints to similar initiatives are more than welcome!
Best Regards
Andreas Meiszner
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With kind regards,
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Com os melhores cumprimentos
Andreas Meiszner
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