Thank you Dan, Greg, and Matt for your guidance, and being very welcoming.
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Gregory Hislop <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Thanks for sharing your Git lecture. The group I'm working with is in the > process of trying to build a more expansive version of the POSSE workshops > (see a draft at > http://xcitegroup.org/foss2serve/index.php/Faculty_Workshop_Planning). We > might be able to incorporate some of what you've done. > > Have you considered adding the link to your materials to the list of > resources on TOS? You could put it in the table here: > http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Teaching_Materials_Catalogue > > Cheers, > > Greg Hislop > Drexel University > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Scott > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 10:26 AM > To: Discussions about Teaching Open Source > Subject: Re: [TOS] Contributing to the TOS textbook > > On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 12:36:20AM -0500, Jonathan Loy wrote: >> Greetings TOS members, >> >> I am a college student currently reading the TOS textbook for my >> software engineering class. I deeply appreciate the work everyone has >> put into the project, and would like to also contribute by fixing >> typos and/or updating portions of the textbook. For example I would >> like to contribute an alternate path for Chapter 4 & 5 by using >> distributed version control, namely git, but given enough time bazaar >> and mercurial. Another option is to update the text to offer more >> specific guidance for OS X, Ubuntu, and Windows users. > > On the git note, specifically, I recently wrote up an intro to version > control & git for a talk that I gave to our comp sci students a few weeks > ago. I tried to build in learning objectives and checkpoints, but it could > certainly be improved. In any case, the source materials > (Asciidoc) are linked to from > http://coffeecode.net/archives/262-Introducing-version-control-git-in-1.5-hours-to-undergraduates.html > and hosted on gitorious (naturally). > >> Unfortunately, I am unable to find any working issue tracker (it just >> says fix me in plain text) or another public contribution avenue for >> the textbook. I am hoping the textbook project is not dead, so if you >> could please inform me how to properly help this project it would be >> greatly appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read my email. > > I think the public contribution area is the wiki itself. Log in and edit? And > the issue tracker seems to be the discussion section for each page. IIRC, > much of this was written during a doc sprint a few years back. I'm not an > authority on the TOS project at all; I'm just an interested (and mostly > quiet) party who has slowly been trying to introduce FOSS to our students at > Laurentian University through informal talks, as I'm not part of the Comp Sci > faculty and not really in a position to influence the formal curriculum. > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
