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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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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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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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
http://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

[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 m...@purdue.edu 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
 http://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 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

[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
1215 Wilbraham Road
Springfield, MA 01119-2684
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-Original Message-
From: tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org 
[mailto:tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org] On Behalf Of me
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 10:35 PM
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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Mailing Address:
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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

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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 heidijcel...@gmail.com 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-
 From: tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org 
 [mailto:tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org] On Behalf Of me
 Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 10:35 PM
 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.

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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