Re: [TOS] introduction

[McColgan, Michele]

That sounds great. I just finished submitting grades and have quite a bit
of flexibility now.  Let me know what works and I can come over for a visit.

On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 12:08 PM Wes Turner  wrote:

> Michele,
>
> Welcome! I'm at RPI and we have an active group called the Rensselaer
> Center for Open Source. We should get together and talk about regional
> opportunities.
>
> Wes Turner
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 7:54 AM McColgan, Michele 
> wrote:
>
>> I'm Michele McColgan from Siena College in update NY. I teach physics and
>> will be attending the POSSE workshop in June.  I mentor student research
>> mostly around electronics projects using raspberry pi, Arduino, and FPGA
>> hardware. I'm interested in learning how to identify projects that are
>> candidates for an open source project for physics students with strong
>> computational skills.
>>  I also direct an informal STEM program for middle school students and
>> one of our classes is FLOSS Desktops for Kids.  I'm interested in learning
>> how my FLOSS kids can learn about and participate in an open source project.
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Re: [TOS] introduction

[Wes Turner]

Michele,

Welcome! I'm at RPI and we have an active group called the Rensselaer
Center for Open Source. We should get together and talk about regional
opportunities.

Wes Turner

On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 7:54 AM McColgan, Michele 
wrote:

> I'm Michele McColgan from Siena College in update NY. I teach physics and
> will be attending the POSSE workshop in June.  I mentor student research
> mostly around electronics projects using raspberry pi, Arduino, and FPGA
> hardware. I'm interested in learning how to identify projects that are
> candidates for an open source project for physics students with strong
> computational skills.
>  I also direct an informal STEM program for middle school students and one
> of our classes is FLOSS Desktops for Kids.  I'm interested in learning how
> my FLOSS kids can learn about and participate in an open source project.
>
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[TOS] introduction

[McColgan, Michele]

I'm Michele McColgan from Siena College in update NY. I teach physics and
will be attending the POSSE workshop in June.  I mentor student research
mostly around electronics projects using raspberry pi, Arduino, and FPGA
hardware. I'm interested in learning how to identify projects that are
candidates for an open source project for physics students with strong
computational skills.
 I also direct an informal STEM program for middle school students and one
of our classes is FLOSS Desktops for Kids.  I'm interested in learning how
my FLOSS kids can learn about and participate in an open source project.
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Re: [TOS] Introduction

[Shlomi Fish]

On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 12:53:56 -0700
Timothy Handojo  wrote:

> Hello there! I am (trying to be) a new member here!
> 
> My name is Tim, currently a senior Computer Science undergrad student at
> Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, United States. Open source
> technology has been in my heart and soul since the beginning, one of many
> reasons why I picked CS.
> 
> Linux Operating System Internals has been my technical specialty so far,
> but I've been learning other things over my years in the CS program in PSU.
> I code in many different languages, but so far my favorite has been
> Python3, C, and Bash.
> 
> Thank you,
> Timothy K Handojo

Hi Tim!

Welcome aboard.

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[TOS] Introduction

[Timothy Handojo]

Hello there! I am (trying to be) a new member here!

My name is Tim, currently a senior Computer Science undergrad student at
Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, United States. Open source
technology has been in my heart and soul since the beginning, one of many
reasons why I picked CS.

Linux Operating System Internals has been my technical specialty so far,
but I've been learning other things over my years in the CS program in PSU.
I code in many different languages, but so far my favorite has been
Python3, C, and Bash.

Thank you,
Timothy K Handojo
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Re: [TOS] Introduction mail (Venkat Lingala)

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi venkat!

See below for my reply and please reply to all recipients.

On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:01:17 -0400
venkat lingala  wrote:

> Hello teachingopensource community,
> 
> I am Venkat, currently pursing my masters in computer engineering and I am
> newbee to opensource development.
> Below are my skills:
> Languages: Java, Python, C/C++
> Frameworks: Spring, Angular JS
> Certification:
> Oracle Certified JAVA Professional
> Experience:
> Worked in Tata Consultancy Services as (hadoop developer/JAVA developer)
> for 15 months.
> Responsibilities:
> Implemented MapReduce programs using JAVA
> Analysed business data using HIVE,PIG tools
> 
> Could you please help me in finding right project to work.
> 

We can try. Do you want to work on a project of the "Teaching Open Source"
project or any open source project? I have a written a guide for how to start
contributing to open source here -
http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/How_to_start_contributing_to_or_using_Open_Source_Software
(it has many recommended links too). The best projects to contribute to are
often the ones which one has used or finds of interest.

Regards,

Shlomi Fish
 

> Regards,
> Venkat Lingala



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[TOS] Introduction mail (Venkat Lingala)

[venkat lingala]

Hello teachingopensource community,

I am Venkat, currently pursing my masters in computer engineering and I am
newbee to opensource development.
Below are my skills:
Languages: Java, Python, C/C++
Frameworks: Spring, Angular JS
Certification:
Oracle Certified JAVA Professional
Experience:
Worked in Tata Consultancy Services as (hadoop developer/JAVA developer)
for 15 months.
Responsibilities:
Implemented MapReduce programs using JAVA
Analysed business data using HIVE,PIG tools

Could you please help me in finding right project to work.

Regards,
Venkat Lingala
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Re: [TOS] introduction - Sri Ramkrishna

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Sri,

welcome aboard.

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

On Thu, 03 Sep 2015 01:40:37 +
Sriram Ramkrishna  wrote:

> Hi Folks!
> 
> Wanted to introduce myself to the mailing list and say hello.
> 
> I am a engagement team member for the GNOME desktop project.  I usually
> work on outreach to prospect users, developers and companies.  We are of
> course, very interested in getting students involved.  Most of you might
> know that the OPW project (Outreach Program for Women) now known as
> Outreachy was started by the GNOME Project several years back.  We have
> through that program successfully reached out to many female, and those who
> identify as female to work on various parts of GNOME.

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[TOS] introduction - Sri Ramkrishna

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

Hi Folks!

Wanted to introduce myself to the mailing list and say hello.

I am a engagement team member for the GNOME desktop project.  I usually
work on outreach to prospect users, developers and companies.  We are of
course, very interested in getting students involved.  Most of you might
know that the OPW project (Outreach Program for Women) now known as
Outreachy was started by the GNOME Project several years back.  We have
through that program successfully reached out to many female, and those who
identify as female to work on various parts of GNOME.

We are interested in university outreach as a goal.  I currently have two
talks scheduled at Purdue University my alma mater to talk with the
freshman at the School of Science about Open Source as part of their
'Outside the Classroom' Program.  We have another member who is also
planning on doing university talks.

In my professional life, I work as an open source advocate for Intel
Corporation.  My work centers on educating business units on implementing
the open source model successfully - by not only writing good code, but to
learn to work with the open source community as well to adhering to the GPL
as an open source denizen amongst other things.

Part of that works involves creating a pool of next generation programmers
who understand the open source model.  So I'm working many sides of this
issue. :-)  As we move forward the future is going to demand more
familiarity with the open source community model.  By creating
opportunities for students to work on an open source project we help not
only companies who are working on open source projects, but FOSS projects
as well.

I will close that we are working on re-vamping GNOME's entire outreach
around volunteer capture, and looking at new approaches for students to be
involved.  The challenges are interesting, mature code bases like GNOME
require and demand that a person understands the rudiments of working in a
team environment as well as basic software engineering.  The early days of
GNOME had volunteers as young as 9 years old - who were able to grab the
code and commit whatever they wanted.  Now more discipline and commitment
is required in order for your changes to be merged.

My life involves evolving two different environments that in the end should
work  like a producer/consumer model. :-)

So, hello!  I'm looking forward to participate with everyone on university
outreach.  Thanks!

sri
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Re: [TOS] Introduction & Open Source Course

[Cody Van De Mark (RIT Student)]

I would be interested in teaching it, but I don't think I am able to teach
before completing my masters. I would really like to see it offered and
improved though. I'd be happy to see any college find use the materials,
either individually or as a full course.

After I graduate, I would like to be an adjunct professor for the course
(ideally at RIT or other universities in Rochester, if I am in the area).

I moved the course into the "big list" on tos. Thanks for the help. :)

Thank you,
Cody Van De Mark
cav5...@rit.edu



On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Mel Chua  wrote:

> Since then, I have written a course on open source software development
>> and development on Linux systems. It is a semester long course
>> containing labs, lectures, homeworks, an exam and answer keys. All of
>> the materials I wrote are licensed to creative commons (BY-SA) and LGPL.
>>
>
> This looks great, Cody -- thanks for posting it! Do you have any plans to
> teach this class in the future?
>
>  Professor Stephen Jacobs suggested that I add the materials to the
>> "review pending" section of the teachingopensource.org
>>  teaching materials catalogue.
>>
>>
>> I have now added the materials, but I was wondering what it takes to
>> move the materials up into the "big list".
>>
>
> I'd say they look ready to just edit into the "big list"'s wiki page --
> feel free to go ahead and do that if you like. :)
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Re: [TOS] Introduction & Open Source Course

[Mel Chua]

Since then, I have written a course on open source software development
and development on Linux systems. It is a semester long course
containing labs, lectures, homeworks, an exam and answer keys. All of
the materials I wrote are licensed to creative commons (BY-SA) and LGPL.


This looks great, Cody -- thanks for posting it! Do you have any plans 
to teach this class in the future?



Professor Stephen Jacobs suggested that I add the materials to the
"review pending" section of the teachingopensource.org
 teaching materials catalogue.

I have now added the materials, but I was wondering what it takes to
move the materials up into the "big list".


I'd say they look ready to just edit into the "big list"'s wiki page -- 
feel free to go ahead and do that if you like. :)


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[TOS] Introduction & Open Source Course

[Cody Van De Mark (RIT Student)]

Hello All,

I am a graduate student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. I have
been interested in open source and using open source software for about six
years now. Last Summer I had the opportunity to attend POSSE at RIT.

Since then, I have written a course on open source software development and
development on Linux systems. It is a semester long course containing labs,
lectures, homeworks, an exam and answer keys. All of the materials I wrote
are licensed to creative commons (BY-SA) and LGPL.

Professor Stephen Jacobs suggested that I add the materials to the "review
pending" section of the teachingopensource.org teaching materials catalogue.

I have now added the materials, but I was wondering what it takes to move
the materials up into the "big list".

I appreciate the time. I have added direct links below.
http://foss.rit.edu/courses/sdol
https://github.com/renardchien/Software-Development-on-Linux--Open-Source-Course-

Thank you,
Cody Van De Mark
cav5...@rit.edu
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Re: [TOS] Introduction to Free and Open Source Software - Objectives/Review

[Heidi Ellis]

Hi Folks,

I agree with Dave as I think that the Contributor Mountain is useful for
modeling participation and accomplishment. I would call that a static model.
I also think that Andrew raises a good point in that there may be a model
for the actual process of participating in an open source project. Don't
know what this looks like but I'm thinking of an active model that
demonstrates interactions and how people move within the levels. I liken
this to static data modeling with ER diagrams (Contributor Mountain) and
active data modeling with something like Data Flow Diagrams that show how
data moves and is used by an application. 

Heidi

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[mailto:tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org] On Behalf Of Dave Neary
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 3:52 AM
To: Andrew Hamblin
Cc: TOS List
Subject: Re: [TOS] Introduction to Free and Open Source Software -
Objectives/Review

Hi,

Andrew Hamblin wrote:
> The contributor mountain example feels to be problematic, as though it
> reflects a hierarchy, rather than an open process.

I like the analogy, it seems appropriate. There definitely is a
hierarchy in free software projects, and like a mountain, anyone can
climb higher in that hierarchy. There are no barriers, but that doesn't
mean it'll be easy.

> It is also a really
> great way to provide a road map towards participation, but I wonder if
> we couldn't find a better metaphor, and one that could be carried
> through the whole book.

Any process which involves growth and learning, and confronting new
challenges, would do. Mountain climbing works, as does (say) running a
marathon, playing in a sports team (moving from young enthusiast, to
training regularly with the team, maybe spending some time as a
substitute, winning your place on the team, and finally (potentially)
becoming a leader of the team, and thinking of bigger objectives
(winning championships, what's best for the team, etc). Or a
hypothetical story starting with someone moving to a new neighbourhood,
and ending with them being elected to city council (too culturally
specific, perhaps?).

Cheers,
Dave.

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Re: [TOS] Introduction to Free and Open Source Software - Objectives/Review

[Kevin Mark]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 09:52:17AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Andrew Hamblin wrote:
> > The contributor mountain example feels to be problematic, as though it
> > reflects a hierarchy, rather than an open process.
> 
> I like the analogy, it seems appropriate. There definitely is a
> hierarchy in free software projects, and like a mountain, anyone can
> climb higher in that hierarchy. There are no barriers, but that doesn't
> mean it'll be easy.

and different from closed sourced, folks can make documentation for you to use
for free and other contributers will try to 'throw down a rope' to help you up
to the next level as long as you are motivated and are close in knowledge. And
they do this gratis and in their free time.
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Re: [TOS] Introduction to Free and Open Source Software - Objectives/Review

[Dave Neary]

Hi,

Andrew Hamblin wrote:
> The contributor mountain example feels to be problematic, as though it
> reflects a hierarchy, rather than an open process.

I like the analogy, it seems appropriate. There definitely is a
hierarchy in free software projects, and like a mountain, anyone can
climb higher in that hierarchy. There are no barriers, but that doesn't
mean it'll be easy.

> It is also a really
> great way to provide a road map towards participation, but I wonder if
> we couldn't find a better metaphor, and one that could be carried
> through the whole book.

Any process which involves growth and learning, and confronting new
challenges, would do. Mountain climbing works, as does (say) running a
marathon, playing in a sports team (moving from young enthusiast, to
training regularly with the team, maybe spending some time as a
substitute, winning your place on the team, and finally (potentially)
becoming a leader of the team, and thinking of bigger objectives
(winning championships, what's best for the team, etc). Or a
hypothetical story starting with someone moving to a new neighbourhood,
and ending with them being elected to city council (too culturally
specific, perhaps?).

Cheers,
Dave.

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Re: [TOS] Introduction to Free and Open Source Software - Objectives/Review

[Matthew Jadud]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 17:05, Andrew Hamblin  wrote:
> For this chapter I think a set of 5  true/false questions(I've got a few
> scribbled down, but I'm going to set a 30 min timer and see if I can't

Part of what I like about FOSS interaction is that it is very much
about Analysis/Synthesis/Evaluation as opposed to Knowledge and
Comprehension (framing this in Bloom's taxonomy). I don't object to
the addition of these kinds of questions (for helping focus the reader
at the end of a chapter) as long as it is clear that the purpose of
reading isn't so that you can answer these kinds of questions. The
book supports a process.

That said: edit and add!

Cheers,
Matt
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[TOS] Introduction to Free and Open Source Software - Objectives/Review

[Andrew Hamblin]

Okay looking over the first chapter
(http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Practical_OSS_Exploration_-_Introduction_to_Free_and_Open_Source_Software)
 I think that the main objectives are.
 1. Understand the differences, relative advantages, and disadvantages
of Open Source and Closed Source software.
 2. Compare open and closed source software from the perspective of a
user, and as a developer.
 3. Be familiar with some of the roles in open source projects - The
stuff about contributor mountain seems to be going this way, but I feel
like if falls short, or if this is even an objective for this chapter.
 4. Choose an Open Source project to contribute to while working through
this book.
 5. Know where the textbook is going - this chapter introduces very
briefly many concepts that later get a whole chapter.

It seems like the book is assuming that students are familiar enough
with C to read, understand and edit a basic program. It is also assuming
that students have access to a *nix system of some kind to do their
development on. 

The contributor mountain example feels to be problematic, as though it
reflects a hierarchy, rather than an open process. It is also a really
great way to provide a road map towards participation, but I wonder if
we couldn't find a better metaphor, and one that could be carried
through the whole book.

Review vs. Exercises
For the reviews to be useful they need to be focused on ideas, and have
clearly correct or incorrect answers. The exercises all seem to be
fairly straightforward, and working towards the objectives, they seem to
meet the goal of providing concrete action steps for students to
complete. I'm writing review questions with the goal of ensuring the
students understand the core ideas of a particular chapter, and know the
meaning of key terms. 

For this chapter I think a set of 5  true/false questions(I've got a few
scribbled down, but I'm going to set a 30 min timer and see if I can't
improve them this evening.) about attributes of Open Source Software vs
Closed Source software (i.e. "T/F - You can fix a bug that is bothering
you if it is in Closed Source Software") Some Multiple choice scenario
questions, (i.e. Software that is free of charge is open source only if?
A. ... B. Anyone may download edit and build the software themselves
C. ... D. ...). And maybe a set of define the term, or short scenario
questions.

I'm not sure which, if any of the terms are critical though. Open Source
seems to be the only thing in this that is definitely critical.

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Re: [TOS] Introduction

[me]

Thanks Heidi,

And, yes!  We would welcome student developers.  We currently have a
CS student working on UI improvements in the instructor interface
using html5, and the project has had other very successful and fairly
long-term relationships with other students in the past.  One issue is
that perl is not as popular as it used to be, but we have other
projects on the shelf (such as UI improvments, integration with
moodle, sakai, blackboard, and others) that could be worked on by
students with limited or no perl background to start.  Also, our wiki,
moodle site, web-pages could use some nice and consistent themes, and
the css for webwork itself would use
some improvementlot's of work to done!

Also, you and others may be interested in the work of Christelle
Scharff et. al. at Pace University in NY.  She and her colleagues used
webwork directly as a way of teaching students to get involved in an
open source project, and her students have developed an extension for
webwork for use in programming courses under an NSF CCLI grant.

You can find her work at

http://csis.pace.edu/~scharff/webwork/webwork.html

Thanks,
Jason

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Heidi Ellis  wrote:
> Welcome Jason!
>
> WeBWorK is an interesting project. It appears that the site has some tasks 
> that are appropriate for newbies to open source and there are good directions 
> for developers on where to start. This could provide some interesting student 
> projects!
>
> Heidi Ellis
>
> Heidi J. C. Ellis
> Chair and Associate Professor
> Department of Computer Science and Information Technology
> Western New England College
> 1215 Wilbraham Road
> Springfield, MA 01119-2684
> el...@wnec.edu
> http://mars.wnec.edu/~hellis
>
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 10:35 PM
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> Subject: [TOS] Introduction
>
> Hi All,
>
> I've just joined the list and I'm writing to introduce myself.  I'm a
> mathematician at the University of Missouri
> in Columbia, Missouri.  I'm closely involved with the WeBWorK project
> (webwork.maa.org).  WeBWorK is an
> open-source perl-based online homework system for math courses.  It's
> widely used:
>
> http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/WeBWorK_Sites
>
> Compared to publisher based systems, WeBWorK is far more sophisticated
> in terms of the mathematics it can handle.
> But, the publisher systems tend to be shinier. :)
>
> WeBWorK began development iin 1995 by Profs. Arnold Pizer and Michael
> Gage at the University of Rochester
> Department of Mathematics. It is now supported by a team of developers
> from several institutions and is used for a
> variety of subjects.  Also, the Mathematical Association of America,
> one of the two main professional societies for mathematicians,
> has recently 'adopted' webwork.  They host courses for math courses
> around the country and provide us with server space for our
> svn repositories, forums, wiki, and mailing lists.  WeBWorK is also
> supported by the NSF.
>
> We're very much trying to 'do' open-source right; we have a great
> community of math faculty from around the US and abroad who
> use webwork at their institutions, write documentation, contribute on
> the fourms, author webwork problems, and contribute to
> webwork development.  But, we're pretty much all mathematicians by
> training (rather than developers, technical writers, community
> managers, etc.), and in spite of the longevity and success of WeBWorK
> so far, we could learn a lot from people involved with
> other open-source projects.  So, I was very excited to come across the
> teachingopensource.org site, and I'm looking forward to learning
> from you all and  contributing where I can.
>
> If you're interested to know what kind of development is going on, the
> following page on our wiki lists some ideas we put up for a Google SOC
> application for last summer (sadly, not funded).
>
> http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Google_summer_of_code_projects
>
> And, I invite you to take a look at webwork and let us know if you are
> interested in contributing.  For development, knowledge of perl,
> javascript or html5/css3 would help, but like any other open-source
> project, there are a lot of ways to get involved.
>
> Also, to that end, we would be very  much like to explore the
> possibility of participating in the POSSE program.  We've communicated
> some with Mel about
> this, with the idea of perhaps running a POSSE program either
> alongside or in support of a workshop that we already have in the
> works.
> This past summ

Re: [TOS] Introduction

[me]

Hi Shiomi

>
> Nice. But why the erratic capital letters in the middle and end of the name?

The name itself comes from "homework."  Since it is on the web, they decided
to call it "webwork."  Very clever, right? :)  As for the
capitalization, I don't
remember the reasoning behind that.  (Although I'm sure I was once told.)
This may have been a primitive attempt at graphic design.  In any case, both
the name and its styling pre-date my involvement in the project.

> I see WeBWorK has a Freshmeat.net page:
>
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/openwebwork
>
> However, I don't see any releases there. You should also put it on
> http://www.ohloh.net/ and http://openhatch.org/ in case it's not there
> already.
>

Thanks for the advice, I'll check those out.  We do maintain a
sourceforge page where releases
are posted,

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openwebwork/

However, we strongly encourage users to get the code from svn.

>
> Is there any online demo for it?
>

Yes, first many of the live courses at

https://courses.webwork.maa.org/webwork2

support guest login where you can see essentially the student view, try some
live homework problems, etc.  Also, there is a demo course at

https://math.webwork.rochester.edu/webwork2/maa101

where you can login as a professor to see the instructor interface.  The course
is refreshed every night, so don't worry about breaking anything. You can log in
as profa with password profa, as profb with password profb, etc.  However, this
course is on a development server, and so some things may not work correctly.

Also, for any faculty out there (college, university, hs, etc) - if
you are interested
in obtaining a course site for use in one of your courses, contact me
off-list and
we may be able to find hosting for you.

Thanks,
Jason

PS: Shlomi, I notice you (or at least your email address) are based in
Israel. You
might be interested to know that we have at least one user in Israel.
A pressing
issue for us is localization/internationalization, and as we get more
interest from
non-English speaking regions, we hope to get a critical mass of people who can
work on that issue, do translations, etc.  This is something we know
very little about.

> Regards,
>
>        Shlomi Fish
>
> --
> -
> Shlomi Fish       http://www.shlomifish.org/
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>
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>  She can smoke as long as she's smokin'.
>
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Re: [TOS] Introduction

[Heidi Ellis]

Welcome Jason!

WeBWorK is an interesting project. It appears that the site has some tasks that 
are appropriate for newbies to open source and there are good directions for 
developers on where to start. This could provide some interesting student 
projects!

Heidi Ellis

Heidi J. C. Ellis
Chair and Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Information Technology
Western New England College
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Springfield, MA 01119-2684
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To: tos@teachingopensource.org
Subject: [TOS] Introduction

Hi All,

I've just joined the list and I'm writing to introduce myself.  I'm a
mathematician at the University of Missouri
in Columbia, Missouri.  I'm closely involved with the WeBWorK project
(webwork.maa.org).  WeBWorK is an
open-source perl-based online homework system for math courses.  It's
widely used:

http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/WeBWorK_Sites

Compared to publisher based systems, WeBWorK is far more sophisticated
in terms of the mathematics it can handle.
But, the publisher systems tend to be shinier. :)

WeBWorK began development iin 1995 by Profs. Arnold Pizer and Michael
Gage at the University of Rochester
Department of Mathematics. It is now supported by a team of developers
from several institutions and is used for a
variety of subjects.  Also, the Mathematical Association of America,
one of the two main professional societies for mathematicians,
has recently 'adopted' webwork.  They host courses for math courses
around the country and provide us with server space for our
svn repositories, forums, wiki, and mailing lists.  WeBWorK is also
supported by the NSF.

We're very much trying to 'do' open-source right; we have a great
community of math faculty from around the US and abroad who
use webwork at their institutions, write documentation, contribute on
the fourms, author webwork problems, and contribute to
webwork development.  But, we're pretty much all mathematicians by
training (rather than developers, technical writers, community
managers, etc.), and in spite of the longevity and success of WeBWorK
so far, we could learn a lot from people involved with
other open-source projects.  So, I was very excited to come across the
teachingopensource.org site, and I'm looking forward to learning
from you all and  contributing where I can.

If you're interested to know what kind of development is going on, the
following page on our wiki lists some ideas we put up for a Google SOC
application for last summer (sadly, not funded).

http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Google_summer_of_code_projects

And, I invite you to take a look at webwork and let us know if you are
interested in contributing.  For development, knowledge of perl,
javascript or html5/css3 would help, but like any other open-source
project, there are a lot of ways to get involved.

Also, to that end, we would be very  much like to explore the
possibility of participating in the POSSE program.  We've communicated
some with Mel about
this, with the idea of perhaps running a POSSE program either
alongside or in support of a workshop that we already have in the
works.
This past summer, a colleague and I submitted  a proposal this summer
to the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), to run a so-called
PREP (Professional Enhancement Programs) workshop at the end of June
2011 intended to bring together professors from around the country
interested in contributing to WeBWorK. Happily, that has been funded,
and perhaps there is an opportunity for collaboration here.

But, either way, I'm excited to be a part of this community, and,
well, that's my introduction!

Thanks,
Jason

-- 
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Department of Mathematics  Office Phone: (573)882-4473
University of Missouri - Columbia   Voice Mail: (573) 416-0784

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[me]

Hi All,

I've just joined the list and I'm writing to introduce myself.  I'm a
mathematician at the University of Missouri
in Columbia, Missouri.  I'm closely involved with the WeBWorK project
(webwork.maa.org).  WeBWorK is an
open-source perl-based online homework system for math courses.  It's
widely used:

http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/WeBWorK_Sites

Compared to publisher based systems, WeBWorK is far more sophisticated
in terms of the mathematics it can handle.
But, the publisher systems tend to be shinier. :)

WeBWorK began development iin 1995 by Profs. Arnold Pizer and Michael
Gage at the University of Rochester
Department of Mathematics. It is now supported by a team of developers
from several institutions and is used for a
variety of subjects.  Also, the Mathematical Association of America,
one of the two main professional societies for mathematicians,
has recently 'adopted' webwork.  They host courses for math courses
around the country and provide us with server space for our
svn repositories, forums, wiki, and mailing lists.  WeBWorK is also
supported by the NSF.

We're very much trying to 'do' open-source right; we have a great
community of math faculty from around the US and abroad who
use webwork at their institutions, write documentation, contribute on
the fourms, author webwork problems, and contribute to
webwork development.  But, we're pretty much all mathematicians by
training (rather than developers, technical writers, community
managers, etc.), and in spite of the longevity and success of WeBWorK
so far, we could learn a lot from people involved with
other open-source projects.  So, I was very excited to come across the
teachingopensource.org site, and I'm looking forward to learning
from you all and  contributing where I can.

If you're interested to know what kind of development is going on, the
following page on our wiki lists some ideas we put up for a Google SOC
application for last summer (sadly, not funded).

http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Google_summer_of_code_projects

And, I invite you to take a look at webwork and let us know if you are
interested in contributing.  For development, knowledge of perl,
javascript or html5/css3 would help, but like any other open-source
project, there are a lot of ways to get involved.

Also, to that end, we would be very  much like to explore the
possibility of participating in the POSSE program.  We've communicated
some with Mel about
this, with the idea of perhaps running a POSSE program either
alongside or in support of a workshop that we already have in the
works.
This past summer, a colleague and I submitted  a proposal this summer
to the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), to run a so-called
PREP (Professional Enhancement Programs) workshop at the end of June
2011 intended to bring together professors from around the country
interested in contributing to WeBWorK. Happily, that has been funded,
and perhaps there is an opportunity for collaboration here.

But, either way, I'm excited to be a part of this community, and,
well, that's my introduction!

Thanks,
Jason

-- 
Jason Aubrey, PhD  Office: 219 Math Sciences
Department of Mathematics              Office Phone: (573)882-4473
University of Missouri - Columbia       Voice Mail: (573) 416-0784

Mailing Address:
202 Mathematical Sciences               Department Fax: (573)882-1869
University of Missouri                    Department Phone: (573) 882-6221
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Re: [TOS] Introduction and question

[Eduardo Marques]

Hello Kwade,

>> My name's Eduardo, I am Portuguese and left Europe to work in Brazil
>> where I am currently located.
>> 
>> I currently work as CIO/Coordinator in a healthcare company and also
>> with IT Consulting.
> 
> Bem-vindo!  Very nice to meet you.
> 

Obrigado! Nice to meet you too.

> Was that article this one?
> 
> http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1954
 
Yes, it was that one.

>> I wanted to ask if there are any plans to translate the Textbook
>> project to other languages, if so I would be happy to contribute in
>> translating to Portuguese.
> 
> Definitely yes.

Oh, that's great! I think it will be of much value to translate it to other 
languages!

> 
> While the writing of the textbook happens on a wiki, the production
> for print and web uses a tool that is optimized for translation
> (localization or l10n).
> 
> When we have a freeze on the content, we can make it available for
> translation via http://Transifex.net.  That is a website for
> downloading, submitting, and tracking translation files (.po files)
> for content and software projects.  The PO file is a standard format
> and should work with translation applications.
> 
> It is possible to make the current content available for translation.
> My perfection-writer-editor-voice-in-my-head wants to make it better
> first, I'm concerned about wasting translators' time.
> 

Does the content change much? If not I think we could start even if there are 
things to straighten up after...

> What do you all think?
> 
> We should talk more, on this list, about how to do l10n for this
> textbook.  For example, we have language to clean-up to make it easier
> to translate.
> 
> If we want to make the current (0.8) version of the textbook available
> for translation, we can do that with a few hours work.  Anyone
> interested in helping?  It should be fun. :)
> 
> Cheers - Karsten
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> team:Red Hat Community Architecture
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[Karsten Wade]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 05:57:11AM -0800, Eduardo Marques wrote:
> Hello, I stumbled upon TOS after receiving an article from TechRepublic.
> 
> My name's Eduardo, I am Portuguese and left Europe to work in Brazil where I 
> am currently located.
> 
> I currently work as CIO/Coordinator in a healthcare company and also with IT 
> Consulting.

Bem-vindo!  Very nice to meet you.

Was that article this one?

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1954

> I wanted to ask if there are any plans to translate the Textbook
> project to other languages, if so I would be happy to contribute in
> translating to Portuguese.

Definitely yes.

While the writing of the textbook happens on a wiki, the production
for print and web uses a tool that is optimized for translation
(localization or l10n).

When we have a freeze on the content, we can make it available for
translation via http://Transifex.net.  That is a website for
downloading, submitting, and tracking translation files (.po files)
for content and software projects.  The PO file is a standard format
and should work with translation applications.

It is possible to make the current content available for translation.
My perfection-writer-editor-voice-in-my-head wants to make it better
first, I'm concerned about wasting translators' time.

What do you all think?

We should talk more, on this list, about how to do l10n for this
textbook.  For example, we have language to clean-up to make it easier
to translate.

If we want to make the current (0.8) version of the textbook available
for translation, we can do that with a few hours work.  Anyone
interested in helping?  It should be fun. :)

Cheers - Karsten
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[Eduardo Marques]

Hello, I stumbled upon TOS after receiving an article from TechRepublic.

My name's Eduardo, I am Portuguese and left Europe to work in Brazil where I am 
currently located.

I currently work as CIO/Coordinator in a healthcare company and also with IT 
Consulting.

I wanted to ask if there are any plans to translate the Textbook project to 
other languages, if so I would be happy to contribute in translating to 
Portuguese.

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