Jay - Check out my CSCI462 Software Engineering Practicum and the student blogs. This year they are contributing to Firefox, Drupal, Gimp, Shotwell, and XBMC. The team wikis are closed for now, but the blogs tell the story.
link: http://csci462-2012.wikispaces.com/ Fodder for thought! I found it goes pretty smoothly. I like your ideas about collaborations. See the texts I require in the syllabus: http://stono.cs.cofc.edu/%7Ebowring/classes/csci%20462/2012%20Spring/CSCI-462-001-2012-1.pdf I am presenting at POSSCON 2012 <http://www.posscon.org/> about my experiences. So, if you are in the area then (or anytime), I would enjoy a face-to-face discussion. Cheers, Jim Bowring Principal Investigator, www.CIRDLES.org <http://www.CIRDLES.org%20> Computer Science College of Charleston 66 George Street Charleston, SC 29424 Google Voice: 843.608.1399 (preferred) Google Email: bowr...@gmail.com Office: JC Long room 222 843.953.0805 http://stono.cs.cofc.edu/~bowring/ bowri...@cofc.edu R. Buckminster Fuller (1972): If humanity is to survive aboard our planet, it must become universally literate and preoccupied with inherently cooperative Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science in which every human is concerned with accomplishing the comfortably sustainable well-faring of all other humans. On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Jay Borenstein <borenst...@cs.stanford.edu>wrote: > 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 >
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