On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 16:50 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > When we were at OSU talking about the 'Practical OSS Exploration' > textbook, Tim Budd made a comment that I paraphrase as: "This material > is good but there isn't enough to teach more than two weeks." > > What's missing, as we discussed, is all the material that gives a more > full picture of participation in a FOSS community. What we have right > now is very task oriented learning, so you could sit down and read > through/conduct the exercises within that few weeks. > > What I imagine we need are topics that provide broader information and > invite discussion, contemplation, and thought change. Such as: > > * History - what are things like now and how did things get to be this > way? > > * Community cultures - different types of communities and how they > interact. Explanation of communities of practice. > > * Open communities and diversity - there are significant disparities > and non-trivial problems, some of what and why. > > * Licensing the Code - concepts about copyright, copyleft, different > types of licenses, and effects of those choices on the code and > community. > > * Threats and risks to and from FOSS - review of what can go wrong and > consequences; what FUD is and how it's handled. What people forget > and do wrong all the time. > > * Open for Business - Free software, open source software, and > business. Different business models around FOSS to the present. > > * Who else practices the open source way - how open source has > influenced other disciplines in terms of core principles (NOT using > software but contribution cultures). > > Sources for this content: Wikipedia and other CC licensed sources; > theopensourceway.org; original content production. > > Other ideas? Expansions? > > - Karsten
There's a missing chapter which Dave and I were fighting over, until he got too swamped :-) I'm very interested in writing that chapter this fall. I believe it was chapter 2 in one of the early outlines, and it discussed some of the basic concepts of working in community and being 'productively lost'. -Chris _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
