Hello all, I teach in the computer science department at Stanford. Of particular note, I teach a couple of senior and master's level project courses designed to expose students to "real world" software engineering experiences. This has been well received by students and industry alike.
The above is good, but there is an even better model out there; specifically, I believe there is a opportunity to further improve the quality of the educational experience we are providing to our students while also creating an influx of positive contributions to open source projects. I'm very excited about this and that's what brings me to join this list. Realistically, I expect a great deal of execution pain around making this happen. But, I think the potential payoff is so good for society that I remain very motivated. Current status: The first small step being taken is a project team from one of my existing project classes is working on an existing open source project this year rather a typical industry collaboration. This has necessitated the grafting of curriculum typically used for industry collaborations to something that fits an open source project model. We are learning a ton about what is needed to make this work on a bigger scale. In the long term, I'd like to see my project teams at Stanford collaborating not just with the open source project maintainers, but working in teams that incorporate students at other universities as well. I think this will introduce all sorts of interesting new dimensions to the experience...But, that's a long way from here. For now, I'm pleased to virtually be a part of this group. I imagine and hope I will meet a number of you at SIGCSE in a few days. Please don't hesitate to reach out if this sounds interesting. Best regards, Jay -- Jay Borenstein Stanford University Dept of Computer Science borenst...@cs.stanford.edu c: 650.776.6473 _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
