Karsten, the idea of "remixing FLOSS technology" has a very important pedagogical value and impacts important curricular areas (networking, operating systems, security, software system architecture, software system applications and administration) in a coherent and relevant way. Any teaching materials that could assist faculty and students to learn about sandbox-ing will be great. Your examples below are excellent starting points. In a perfect world, they can become self-contained teaching modules that can be linked to the TOS textbook.
> On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 11:31 PM, Karsten Wade wrote: > > I want to show a professor how to clone a git repo from LibreOffice and > make it available on another host so that others can clone from my > branch and check out the cool stuff I'm doing without it having to be > merged back to LibreOffice. So _today_ I can do that with > gitorious.org, but last year-or-so I couldn't. I would have been > messing with httpd and stuff. > > Say I want to show how easy it is to setup a yum repository for your > packages before they get submitted to Fedora, today I can do that using > fedorapeople.org but only if I can install the Fedora packaging and yum > devel tools locally. What if the professor brought a Windows or OSX > machine? I sure would like to boot to a Fedora spin or POSSE remix ... > > What I'm saying is that I can think of a huge number of ways to remix > FLOSS technology that might benefit from seeing how something is > actually done rather than looking for an existing project that hosts it > as a service or provides it as part of their FLOSS infrastructure for > contributors. I wouldn't summarily close the door on the idea of POSSE > instructors being able to spin-up needed services because of the risk > that it might make people think we are recommending they just go in a > corner and do their own thing. > > I think there will always be a new FLOSS technology that needs a quick > example or dirty hosting for the week that is not provided somewhere > else. How to get that is still a bit murky, although I do see the > Dreamhost-style as being close (I use this for my personal projects, > for example, and it works well for that.) > > - Karsten > -- > name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener > team: Red Hat Community Architecture > uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki > gpg: AD0E0C41 _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
