Another +1 The addition of materials to the list on TOS would be very helpful! Heidi
> > 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:tos- > [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
