Hi! I have a slight concern with forcing open source projects in the case of education. Students don't necessarily want their trial and errors broadcast to the world. I believe students are entitled to some privacy w.r.t. their software projects.
Open source projects require some understanding of what software licenses mean. Publishing the code provides additional responsibilities which the students don't necessarily understand or accept. Finally, in the case of my school, the students actually own whatever they create for the courses. It is somewhat questionable for the instructor to make students release their ownership as part of the course requirements. If the students don't understand that they own their code, it's a duty of the instructor to explain it. Making students unknowingly release their ownership is unethical. I believe that open source should be encouraged in class projects. The instructor however has the responsibility to make sure that it's not the only way to go for students and students make their choice knowingly. Alex. On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:30 PM, jmdeschamps <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello GoogleCoders, > > Discovered Google Code recently (and fell in love...) I'm using it for > projects I do in parallel to my students, as example and introduction > to versioning control experience. > > I've started 3 projects before discovering that we are limited > starting to 10 projects for our lifetime ... > > So I do have a few questions: > 1- If someone else creates a project and puts me down as an admin > member does that count as one of my projects ? > > 2- Can I change the name of a project ? (Icould then use the same base > project, change the project name and source, for this project...) > > 3- I could also make a *generic* project and use subfolders for > different projects - But I don't know if that would circumvent the > reasons why we are limited to 10 projects... which I don't want to do > blindly! > > In a nutshell, I have my personal projects, probably fewer than 10 > that I'd wish to host on Google Hosting, but If I start using it as > term projects repositories, well 10 might be attained rather fast! > > ANy hints, suggestions, additionnal reference to the program will be > welcome! > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
