Depending what your goals are, I can recommend an old article I wrote here: https://opensource.com/education/16/1/how-students-get-started-open-source
Google recently launched the Season of Docs which is like summer of code but focused on documentation: https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/ The Linux Foundation recently launched CommunityBridge which you can think of as "summer of code" as a service which you can use all year round for projects (still in beta): https://communitybridge.org/ https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2019/03/announcing-the-linux-kernel-mentorship-project-on-communitybridge-a-new-linux-foundation-platform/ I honestly thing having practical experience contributing to a welcoming and inclusive open source projects would be the most useful thing for a student. If there were any professors out there interested in using CommunityBridge for this I'm happy to have a conversation, our intention long term was for academia to potentially take advantage of this tool for practical open source experience. On a related note, I also help run the TODO Group which has a lot of open source program management guides that may be useful to students to understand how corporations use and contribute to open source: https://todogroup.org/guides/ Anyways, happy to help! On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 12:56 PM Clif Kussmaul <clifkussm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Howard, > > Designing an intro course around FOSS sounds interesting, and encouraging > students to use & get involved with a FOSS project sounds promising. As you > know, foss2serve.org and teachingopensource.org list learning activities, > some of which might be useful in this context. > > > > Consider introducing a variety of FOSS projects, and see which students > connect with. Some CS students are really into games, but others aren’t, > and might even be turned off by a focus on games. Humanitarian FOSS might > appeal to students who want to make the world a better place. You could > also use projects that students are likely to use for other reasons – > FreeMind for note-taking, MuseScore for music notation, InkScape for > drawing, etc. > > > > William Kinghorn recommended FLOSSmanuals, which I’ve explored a little > bit. It looks interesting, and could be a good way to help students write & > revise user documentation for a FOSS project. > > > > Clif > --- > Clif Kussmaul c...@kussmaul.org http://kussmaul.org +1-484-893-0255 > EDT=GMT-5 (he/him) > > > > *From:* Francis, Howard [mailto:fran...@upike.edu] > *Sent:* Friday, May 10, 2019 7:15 PM > *To:* Clif Kussmaul <clifkussm...@gmail.com> > *Cc:* tos@teachingopensource.org > *Subject:* Re: [TOS] any interest in activities to introduce FOSS > projects? > > > > Hi, > > > > Sorry I’m late to this (finals week hit me hard). > > > > I am very interested in following/participating in this. I am thinking > about designing my CS 109 around open-source software. The opportunities > for my freshmen to real computer science in their first semester seem to > great to not do this. I’m hoping that they can latch on to one this fall, > then continue to be a part of it to the point they can be making coding > contributions in their senior project class. So discussing ideas to get > student introduced to FOSS projects will be very useful to me. > > > > I would like to start the first class meeting by just having them play > some open source games based on games familiar to them. Then take them to > the decimation/wiki page for the game and have them review the getting > started directions and see if they could make any recommendations to > improve it. Finally I would let them know that they actually have the power > to change it. One of my course learning goals is going to be “improve the > documentation for an open-source program”. (And yes, I think I can get my > IT department to install some open source games on the computers in our > classrooms!) > > > > Looking forward to what other ideas we come up with. > > > > Howard > > > > Mr. Howard V Francis > Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science > Faculty Athletics Representative > University of Pikeville > Pikeville, Kentucky > to schedule a meeting with me, use: http://hvfrancis.youcanbook.me > 606.218.5465 > > > > On Apr 27, 2019, at 12:32 PM, Clif Kussmaul <clifkussm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > A year or so ago, I went to a library open house where students and > faculty demoed FOSS tools like Audacity, FreeMind, Inkscape, GIMP, & > WordPress. However, no one I talked to had participated in their project’s > community. This seems like a missed opportunity, especially for someone who > uses one project heavily (e.g. a musician who uses MuseScore, a designer > who uses InkScape). > > > > Thus, I’d like to develop some activities to help non-technical people > learn more about a specific FOSS project, and how to access it’s online > resources and interact with the community. I plan to start with Audacity & > MuseScore. Please let me know if you have other project suggestions, or > would like to work together on such activities. My hope is that after the > first few we can create a template to make it easier to do more. > > > > Clif > --- > Clif Kussmaul c...@kussmaul.org http://kussmaul.org +1-484-893-0255 > EDT=GMT-5 (he/him) > > > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/ > -- Cheers, Chris Aniszczyk http://aniszczyk.org +1 512 961 6719
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