Re: [TOS] TOS learning activities that you have or wish you had

[aju]

10. Contribution to existing Open Source Software.
(Calculator or Text Editor in java/python/perl/c/cpp/etc: Any One).
(Submission by Individual or Group [I or G])
Objective: To contribute/introduce the open source software by
understanding the
GPL Licensing.
Outcome: Self learning/lifelong learning (PO: b, I, j, k, l)


a. Develop simple software for basic needs such as Calculator, editor etc.
Use following:-
i. Language:- C/C++, Python, Perl, PHP, Java, .net
ii. Version Control :- GIT or SVN
iii. Package Building:- debian or rpm
iv. Translation:- Marathi or Hindi
v. Documentation:- Use Mallard for your Help
b. Make the Official login on online repositories of open source projects
with valid
login by individual and ask group too. Take any above suitable open project
from online open source project and add feature/option/GUI/remove
error/modules/etc.
c. Appreciation mail may be received from main developer/introducer if your
contribution is quality and remarkable.
References:-
i.
http://teachingopensource.org/start-contributing-using-open-source-software/

ii. https://www.fossology.org/get-started
iii. http://foss2serve.org/index.php/Category:Projects
iv. http://www.hfoss.org/index.php/project_gallery
v. GIT version control Tutorial:- http://git-scm.com/documentation
vi. SVN :- http://michael-zamir.blogspot.in/2012/01/svn-tutorial.html
vii. Translation :-
http://www.tuxamito.com/joomla/index.php/es/component/content/article/60-
gettext- tutorial
viii. Using Malarad:- http://projectmallard.org/about/learn/tenminutes.html
ix. http://www.hfoss.org/index.php/project_gallery
x. http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/open-source/how-to-start-
contributing/tos-document.html
In Journal you have to write the process in Brief.

On 17-Sep-2018 6:27 PM, "Clif Kussmaul"  wrote:

I agree that this is a key challenge. J I’m not sure how to make a general,
scalable structure where students can easily contribute to FOSS. It’s hard
to define rules or steps when FOSS projects & courses vary so much. It’s
certainly much easier when the faculty have direct experience in the FOSS
project, or when they work with a small group of students.



I think some FOSS projects try to identify tasks suitable for students or
other new contributors, although it takes time to curate such lists, and
one large class could clean out the list quickly, creating problems if
several classes try to use the project at the same time.



Could we have students identify such tasks instead? (This would be more
scalable.) For example, assign each student or team to read through a set
of items (docs, tickets, code), find as many errors as possible (including
spelling, grammar, & formatting), and add them to a list (maybe the project
tracker, maybe a class-specific tracker).



Many students (& faculty) have little or no experience with these tasks, so
we’d like to help them practice. I’ve thought about case studies /
scenarios / simulations to help students learn about specific aspects of
FOSS. We have some short examples in POSSE, but could expand them for
classroom use. For example, they might prompt students to:

- read a page of documentation or code, identify potential problems, and
decide how it could be improved

- read a task tracker ticket (or set of related tickets) and decide how
they could be improved, or combined

- read a transcript from IRC, a mailing list, or email, and identify
inappropriate behavior, or decide how each person could have improved the
exchange

- read a set of related items (ticket, discussion, docs, code) and decide
what to do next



I’ve also thought about a reusable “sandbox” project, which faculty could
install, configure, and reset each term for new groups of students. The
project would come with many simple tasks, such as: edit a tracker ticket;
edit a doc in a wiki or CMS; edit a file under version control, etc. It
could also include tasks of varying difficulty, tools to (randomly) inject
small errors and generate tasks, or reports to help faculty monitor student
progress.

This could be a snapshot of a real FOSS project, or a fake project designed
for the requirements of TOS. So in some ways it would be more like a case
study or simulation than a real project.



Clif
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*From:* Shobha Tyagi [mailto:tyagisho...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Sunday, September 16, 2018 1:38 AM
*To:* Clif Kussmaul 
*Cc:* Discussions about Teaching Open Source 
*Subject:* Re: [TOS] TOS learning activities that you have or wish you had



Hi! Clif,



 I keep teaching the students about the benefits of using and contributing
to open source. But I exactly don't know

how to make them real contributors and see them enjoying contributing.

If we have set of rules or steps that our students can follow.

which I can give them as an assignment and award them marks if successfully
achieved their goals.

It would greatly benefit our st

Re: [TOS] TOS learning activities that you have or wish you had

[Heidi Ellis]

Great summary Clif! A few comments below.

Heidi

On 09/17/2018 08:56 AM, Clif Kussmaul wrote:
I agree that this is a key challenge. ☺ I’m not sure how to make a general, 
scalable structure where students can easily contribute to FOSS. It’s hard to 
define rules or steps when FOSS projects & courses vary so much. It’s certainly 
much easier when the faculty have direct experience in the FOSS project, or 
when they work with a small group of students.

I think some FOSS projects try to identify tasks suitable for students or other 
new contributors, although it takes time to curate such lists, and one large 
class could clean out the list quickly, creating problems if several classes 
try to use the project at the same time.

Could we have students identify such tasks instead? (This would be more 
scalable.) For example, assign each student or team to read through a set of 
items (docs, tickets, code), find as many errors as possible (including 
spelling, grammar, & formatting), and add them to a list (maybe the project 
tracker, maybe a class-specific tracker).
This would make an awesome assignment or in-class activity!

Many students (& faculty) have little or no experience with these tasks, so 
we’d like to help them practice. I’ve thought about case studies / scenarios / 
simulations to help students learn about specific aspects of FOSS. We have some 
short examples in POSSE, but could expand them for classroom use. For example, 
they might prompt students to:
- read a page of documentation or code, identify potential problems, and decide 
how it could be improved
- read a task tracker ticket (or set of related tickets) and decide how they 
could be improved, or combined
- read a transcript from IRC, a mailing list, or email, and identify 
inappropriate behavior, or decide how each person could have improved the 
exchange
- read a set of related items (ticket, discussion, docs, code) and decide what 
to do next
Could also do this in conjunction with a FOSS community member.


I’ve also thought about a reusable “sandbox” project, which faculty could 
install, configure, and reset each term for new groups of students. The project 
would come with many simple tasks, such as: edit a tracker ticket; edit a doc 
in a wiki or CMS; edit a file under version control, etc. It could also include 
tasks of varying difficulty, tools to (randomly) inject small errors and 
generate tasks, or reports to help faculty monitor student progress.
This could be a snapshot of a real FOSS project, or a fake project designed for 
the requirements of TOS. So in some ways it would be more like a case study or 
simulation than a real project.

Clif
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From: Shobha Tyagi [mailto:tyagisho...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2018 1:38 AM
To: Clif Kussmaul <mailto:clifkussm...@gmail.com>
Cc: Discussions about Teaching Open Source 
<mailto:tos@teachingopensource.org>
Subject: Re: [TOS] TOS learning activities that you have or wish you had

Hi! Clif,

 I keep teaching the students about the benefits of using and contributing to 
open source. But I exactly don't know
how to make them real contributors and see them enjoying contributing.
If we have set of rules or steps that our students can follow.
which I can give them as an assignment and award them marks if successfully 
achieved their goals.
It would greatly benefit our students who really wish to contribute.

Thanks,
Shobha


On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 7:40 PM Clif Kussmaul 
mailto:clifkussm...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hello TOS community,
TL;DR:
Please reply to me (not the whole list) with details on:
- TOS learning activities that you created, that other faculty would find 
useful, but that you haven’t posted.
- TOS learning activities that you would like to use, but that you looked for 
and didn’t find.
Details:
The OpenPath team plans to map each learning activity to the relevant ACM Body 
of Knowledge areas & subareas.
This should help faculty find relevant activities, and identify gaps where we 
need new activities.
If you have activities, we’d like to help you add them to 
teachingopensource.org<http://teachingopensource.org> and/or 
foss2serve.org<http://foss2serve.org> so others can find them.
If you want activities, we’d like to help find ways to create and pilot them.
I will share a summary, depending in part on the volume and variety of 
responses.
Thank you,
Clif
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Re: [TOS] TOS learning activities that you have or wish you had

[Clif Kussmaul]

I agree that this is a key challenge. :) I’m not sure how to make a general, 
scalable structure where students can easily contribute to FOSS. It’s hard to 
define rules or steps when FOSS projects & courses vary so much. It’s certainly 
much easier when the faculty have direct experience in the FOSS project, or 
when they work with a small group of students.

 

I think some FOSS projects try to identify tasks suitable for students or other 
new contributors, although it takes time to curate such lists, and one large 
class could clean out the list quickly, creating problems if several classes 
try to use the project at the same time.

 

Could we have students identify such tasks instead? (This would be more 
scalable.) For example, assign each student or team to read through a set of 
items (docs, tickets, code), find as many errors as possible (including 
spelling, grammar, & formatting), and add them to a list (maybe the project 
tracker, maybe a class-specific tracker). 

 

Many students (& faculty) have little or no experience with these tasks, so 
we’d like to help them practice. I’ve thought about case studies / scenarios / 
simulations to help students learn about specific aspects of FOSS. We have some 
short examples in POSSE, but could expand them for classroom use. For example, 
they might prompt students to:

- read a page of documentation or code, identify potential problems, and decide 
how it could be improved

- read a task tracker ticket (or set of related tickets) and decide how they 
could be improved, or combined

- read a transcript from IRC, a mailing list, or email, and identify 
inappropriate behavior, or decide how each person could have improved the 
exchange

- read a set of related items (ticket, discussion, docs, code) and decide what 
to do next

 

I’ve also thought about a reusable “sandbox” project, which faculty could 
install, configure, and reset each term for new groups of students. The project 
would come with many simple tasks, such as: edit a tracker ticket; edit a doc 
in a wiki or CMS; edit a file under version control, etc. It could also include 
tasks of varying difficulty, tools to (randomly) inject small errors and 
generate tasks, or reports to help faculty monitor student progress.

This could be a snapshot of a real FOSS project, or a fake project designed for 
the requirements of TOS. So in some ways it would be more like a case study or 
simulation than a real project.

 

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From: Shobha Tyagi [mailto:tyagisho...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2018 1:38 AM
To: Clif Kussmaul 
Cc: Discussions about Teaching Open Source 
Subject: Re: [TOS] TOS learning activities that you have or wish you had

 

Hi! Clif,

 

 I keep teaching the students about the benefits of using and contributing to 
open source. But I exactly don't know

how to make them real contributors and see them enjoying contributing. 

If we have set of rules or steps that our students can follow. 

which I can give them as an assignment and award them marks if successfully 
achieved their goals.  

It would greatly benefit our students who really wish to contribute.

 

Thanks,

Shobha

 

 

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 7:40 PM Clif Kussmaul mailto:clifkussm...@gmail.com> > wrote:

Hello TOS community, 

TL;DR: 

Please reply to me (not the whole list) with details on:
- TOS learning activities that you created, that other faculty would find 
useful, but that you haven’t posted.
- TOS learning activities that you would like to use, but that you looked for 
and didn’t find. 

Details:

The OpenPath team plans to map each learning activity to the relevant ACM Body 
of Knowledge areas & subareas.
This should help faculty find relevant activities, and identify gaps where we 
need new activities.
If you have activities, we’d like to help you add them to 
teachingopensource.org <http://teachingopensource.org>  and/or foss2serve.org 
<http://foss2serve.org>  so others can find them.
If you want activities, we’d like to help find ways to create and pilot them.

I will share a summary, depending in part on the volume and variety of 
responses.

Thank you, 

Clif
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Re: [TOS] TOS learning activities that you have or wish you had

[Shobha Tyagi]

Hi! Clif,

 I keep teaching the students about the benefits of using and contributing
to open source. But I exactly don't know
how to make them real contributors and see them enjoying contributing.
If we have set of rules or steps that our students can follow.
which I can give them as an assignment and award them marks if successfully
achieved their goals.
It would greatly benefit our students who really wish to contribute.

Thanks,
Shobha


On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 7:40 PM Clif Kussmaul 
wrote:

> Hello TOS community,
>
>
>
> TL;DR:
>
> Please reply to me (not the whole list) with details on:
>
> - TOS learning activities that you created, that other faculty would find
> useful, but that you haven’t posted.
>
> - TOS learning activities that you would like to use, but that you looked
> for and didn’t find.
>
>
>
> Details:
>
> The OpenPath team plans to map each learning activity to the relevant ACM
> Body of Knowledge areas & subareas.
>
> This should help faculty find relevant activities, and identify gaps where
> we need new activities.
>
> If you have activities, we’d like to help you add them to
> teachingopensource.org and/or foss2serve.org so others can find them.
>
> If you want activities, we’d like to help find ways to create and pilot
> them.
>
>
>
> I will share a summary, depending in part on the volume and variety of
> responses.
>
> Thank you,
>
>
>
> Clif
> ---
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[TOS] TOS learning activities that you have or wish you had

[Clif Kussmaul]

Hello TOS community,

 

TL;DR: 

Please reply to me (not the whole list) with details on:

- TOS learning activities that you created, that other faculty would find
useful, but that you haven't posted.

- TOS learning activities that you would like to use, but that you looked
for and didn't find.

 

Details:

The OpenPath team plans to map each learning activity to the relevant ACM
Body of Knowledge areas & subareas.

This should help faculty find relevant activities, and identify gaps where
we need new activities.

If you have activities, we'd like to help you add them to
teachingopensource.org and/or foss2serve.org so others can find them.

If you want activities, we'd like to help find ways to create and pilot
them.

 

I will share a summary, depending in part on the volume and variety of
responses.

Thank you,

 

Clif
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