We've used a derivation of the *Project Evaluation* activity from the foss2serve.org site.
A quick aside about a recent experience highlighting something to avoid (if possible): an open source community with schisms, such as key developers having strained relationships. Several weeks ago, a team of students attempted to become involved in an open source project that satisfied our criteria and had been previously identified by others in the community as a good candidate for student participation. However, students received peculiar responses to contacts made with a key developer. Unbeknownst to us, the project was in the aftermath of disagreements among key developers that resulted in a non-harmonious split within the project. Fortunately, outreach to another developer shed sufficient light on the current situation for us to decide that switching to a different open source project was the best course of action. We discussed this experience during a retrospective, resulting in few viable solutions to identifying such situations earlier in the evaluation process. Wishing you the best, --Jody Dr. Jody Paul Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences Metropolitan State University of Denver On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 1:00 PM, Tom Callaway <tcall...@redhat.com> wrote: > Obviously, no teacher, class, or academic institution are the same, but > I'm curious to know what aspects of an open source community make it > "good" for you to connect your students with it. > > Not looking to make a list of "good" communities, but rather, interested > in hearing what things that they do that made them a "good" fit. Are > there things that you wish open source communities would do more often > (or at all) to help make them more student/academic friendly? > > I've got my own ideas here, but I'm interested in hearing this from an > academic perspective first. :) > > Thanks in advance, > > ~tom > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/ >
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