> I've been working with a professor at Arizona State University on > offering a few students independent studies next semester in which > they would work on Android open source projects
Sounds great! Looking forward to reading the professor's blog posts about this on Planet TOS. ;) > Comments& critiques welcome > [1] http://teachingopensource.com/index.php/FOSS_Mentor_Projects First of all, this is *much* easier to navigate than the old version, thanks for the gardening! I like the feedback message template at http://teachingopensource.com/index.php/FOSS_Mentor_Projects_For_Teachers#Message_for_getting_initial_feedback, made some edits on that and http://teachingopensource.com/index.php/FOSS_Mentor_Projects_For_Students. For me, what would really solidify this page is a case study, concrete examples of how people have done in the past. What schools/organizations/projects have made "structured programs" from scratch before, and how did they think through the design and execution of it? Interviews with the folks who've "done this before" would be an easy place to start. Examples I can think of: * Interview Leslie about how Google set up their Summer of Code program the first year * Interview someone about http://gnomejournal.org/article/48/the-womens-summer-outreach-program (I see Hannah Wallach's name listed, I'll ask her) * Someone could interview me about http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Content, which (happy to do this on IRC just about anytime, ping mchua in #teachingopensource) * Someone could interview Steve Jacobs on how they set up the RIT co-op program this past summer * I'm sure there are more great examples out there. > - I'd be particularly grateful for > pointers to additional resources that are useful when organizing > something like this (I added a link to the GSoC mentoring guide and > the RPI course). I added a "how to find out if students/professors at your institution have done open source work before" note at http://teachingopensource.com/index.php/FOSS_Mentor_Projects#Structured_Programs, would love to see more resources on this topic as well! > I'd also appreciate suggestions for a title better > than "Structured Programs" to describe these sorts of local efforts of > integrating FOSS Mentor Projects into classes or independent studies. > We probably need a catchy acronym. The best (worst?) ideas I have are > OPFOSDIE (organized program for open source development in education) > and SoOS ("Semester of open source"). Using "students can work on something open source related for credit" as the basic idea, some brainstormed suggestions of wildly varying quality (none of them necessarily any good): * OSFAC (Open Source For Academic Credit) * OSIC (Open Source In the Curriculum) * AMOS (Academic Mentors in Open Source) * SPORE (Structured Programs in Open source are... Really... Exciting - okay, I'm just stretching here) --Mel _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
