User:Mmccolgan
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Name: Michele McColgan
Position: Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Siena College, 515 Loudon Road, Loudonville NY 12211
email: mmccolgan@siena.edu.edu
Page: https://www.siena.edu/faculty-and-staff/person/michele-mccolgan/
GitHub: https://github.com/mmccolga
IRC: server: freenode.net nick: michelem channels:
HFOSS Projects:
- tbd - maybe sugar or open food facts
HFOSS-Related Courses:
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Bio: I teach physics courses and mentor student research mostly around electronics projects using Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and FPGA hardware. I also direct an informal STEM program for middle school students and one of our classes is FLOSS Desktops for Kids where we use the Sugar desktop (from OLPC). Fun fact: We just opened our own observatory at Siena!
Stage 1a - FOSS Anatomy
SUGAR LABS
- Roles for students: content writer, developer, designer, BugSquad, activity developer
- Commonalities across roles: to improve sugar and make it more accessible
- Differences between roles: different interests and skills
- Tracker
- How to submit a bug: Register and create a new ticket. Create a descriptive title. Identify the bug type, include details to reproduce bug and expected outcome; Include software versions and log files.
- Repository
- Latest commit: April 30, 2019
- Release cycle and roadmap
- Release cycle: Each release cycle will include development, beta, release candidate and final releases.
- Roadmap: Includes release dates, modules and dependencies, tickets considered, and future plans. Nothing is in the roadmap for 0.114.
Sahana Eden Project
Information management system for disaster and humanitarian aid management
- Commonalities: the roles for involvement are similar for Sugar
- Tracker
- Bugs are reported on gitHub under issues. This is different than the Sugar BugSquad system. But the instructions for what should be included are quite similar.
- Repository
- Latest commit: May 2, 2019
Stage 2 - FOSS Anatomy
Github
- Repository results for education: 27,662
- Repos using Javascript: 3430
- Most recently update:chanzuckerberg/docs-editor updated May 13 at 4:16 pm
- Least recently updated:drongous/ems updated June 4, 2008
- Most stars: freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp with 303k
- Issues: open - 224; closed - 13,322
- Pull requests: open - 1,890; closed - 20,183
- Insights - active pull requests and active issues and the list of pull requests that were merged
- Commits under insights - graph of activity
- Repository results for humanitarian: 505; stars 178; language C#; updated 10/24/2018
- Repository results for disaster management: 469
- Repository results for raspberry pi: 57,643
- Repository results for FPGA: 11,604
- Repository results for informal STEM: 2
Openhub
- Education: 2270 projects
- Active projects recognized on first page:' BigBlueButton, Moodle, Geogebra
- KDE Education: All code is hosted on github; 9 similar projects; Info provided on page includes: activity, language, and type of license
- Humanitarian: 30 projects
- Disaster management: 30 projects
- Activity not available: projects that do not have recent analysis because of problems with their code locations or other problems blocking Open Hub from collecting and analyzing code
- Organizations: stats about most active organizations, new organizations, 30 day commit volume, and stats by sector
- OpenMRS: shows portfolio projects
- OpenMRS Core: latest commit is about 5 years ago
- OpenMRS Core on github: latest commit May 8, 2019
- Benefits/Drawbacks of Openhub and Github: It looks like Openhub isn't up to date. It may be useful to use both services to look for old and new projects.
PROJECT EVALUATION RUBRIC
| Evaluation Factor | Level (0-2) |
Evaluation Data |
|---|---|---|
| Licensing | 2 | Mozilla Public License, version 2.0; an OSI license |
| Language | 0 | Java 96.2%; SQLPL 2.9%; other 0.9%; Most of my students don't know Java. |
| Level of Activity | 2 | active quarters: previous 4; most commits in the quarter before the current quarter |
| Number of Contributors | 2 | 321 contributors |
| Product Size | 1 | 223 MB;Is this large or small? |
| Issue Tracker | 2 | open issues: 1287; closed: 14,136; 3rd curated created 5/31/2008; seems like lots of contributors take tickets but don't complete; |
| New Contributor | 2 | there's a getting started wiki and instructions on downloading the ide; there's an irce channel; lots of activity on the irc channel and OpenMRS Talk; strong web presence |
| Community Norms | 2 | be considerate, respectful and collaborative; there are consequences if you are not; no rude or inappropriate behavior. Members are helpful to new members to get them up and running quickly. |
| User Base | 2 | there is a user base and links to download the app and sample data;there's a user's guide (different from developers guide; there's an OpenMRS conference, so obviously lots of users |
| Total Score | 15 |
FOSS COURSE BRAINSTORMING
- Project: Sugar - urban scholar mentor project
- Create a how-to document for FLOSS Desktop for Kids programs to be able to use Sugar with Ubuntu
- Teach students to develop their own Sugar apps using Dev or Pippy
- Provide documentation support to Sugar docs
- Raspberry Pi Nature Cam
- Explore similar repositories and identify similar project
- Obtain code from similar projects to determine what we can us
- Identify how we can contribute
Part C
'Bug Trackers
- Gnome 3 bug issue topics
- Geary is an email application built around conversations
- GIMP is The GNU Image Manipulation Program
- Gnome's control center - GNOME's main interface to configure various aspects of the desktop
- Info in view
- title
- submitter
- when the issue was submitted
- comments
- Labels
- 1. Feature
- webcam
- 2. RFC
- Enhancement
- Developer Docs
- Documentation
- gmem
- Crash
- Needs information
- 2.10.10
- OS: macOS/OSX
- Info provided on individual issues
- a description
- milestone
- time tracking
- due date
- labels
- confidentiality
- lock issue
- number of participants
- More info on labels
- Labels:Labels are organized as Prioritized labels and other labels.
- Label:There's a label for newcomers and identifies tasks that would be good for new contributors.
- Board
- Columns:There are three columns, Open, To Do, and Doing.
- Milestones
- ReleasesThey seem to be used by versions or releases, i.e. 1.9.0 or 2.0.
- Merge Requests
- Merge:Includes a request to merge and the pipeline
- Syntax: - username:folder into master
FOSS 2 Courses The administration at Siena College is encouraging instructors to offer 1-credit courses. I plan to develop a course to prepare materials for our FLOSS Desktops program using Sugar. Here are some tasks and activities that students will perform.
- 1. Go through the FLOSS Desktops curriculum and build and rebuild a computer; install Ubuntu
- 2. Install the Sugar Desktop
- 3. Create instructions for teachers/laypersons to install the Sugar Desktop for different versions of Ubuntu
- 4. Learn to use the Sugar Desktop and document a process for teachers/laypersons to learn to use the Sugar Desktop
- 5. For your major, select, download, and play 10 games - select 5 of the best games
- 6. Document problems or bugs with the games you did not choose and submit bug tickets (do the same for the 5 games you selected, if appropriate)
- 7.Create instructions for teachers/laypersons to teach their students to play the games
- 8. WIth your class, collaboratively put together a document including the instructions you've created for teachers/laypeople to use with students in the FLOSS Desktops program
- 9. Add the document to the Sugar repository
