User:Bkoster

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of us teaching, so I wear many hats.
 
of us teaching, so I wear many hats.
  
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  Evaluating Mifos
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Stage 1
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... was somewhat overwhelming.  There are tons of things to learn and we are all
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not in the same place.  I'm sort of at the point of just learning how to get into
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a FOSS, so I was behind in the activities relating to how to teach this stuff
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(not that I'm worried -- I am already into the philosophy of the whole thing).
  
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I worked through this once, but the spreadsheet is set up so the box is fixed and if you type too much, you can't see it.  So I have comments like "project too big", but I didn't have space to write anything that would help me know WHY I thought that later.  In that case, the target size from the video is not lines of code, but contributor count, 6 contributors per year (and I'm glad I took notes, because THAT criteria isn't written where I've been able to find it).  This project had 25 per month at one point so I think it's too big.  Lately the contributor count is down, but only because of waning activity (another thing not helpful for students joining in).  Some of the more recent material, like the 14 Ways to Contribute to FOSS article, tell about ways to contribute that this project might benefit from.  One of the code widgets reports that the comment level is low.  Testing and all that little picky long-tail stuff might be good.
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Stage 2
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I'm writing this just as the workshop is finishing.   
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It's still kinda overwhelming, but I know a lot more than I did.  This whole thing
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leans on GitHub, which luckily I already use.  Maybe the best thing I got
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was a pretty good answer to how to make my courses REALLY out there (and
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be able to just 'push' notes and have them get to the students).
  
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Anyway, most of the stuff I was looking for I haven't figure out how to find you. I'm reluctant to claim that the project has no documentation, instructions for noobies, friendliness, etc., just because *I* can't find any of this stuff. I see that people downloading from SourceForge and presumably using this thing, so I know it's not dead.  But the developers are on Ohioh, I think, so ... I'm mostly looking there.  Having pounded on this for a while, I may go look at some of my comrads pages and perhaps see what I'm missing.
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Stage 3
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... yet to come.
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Latest revision as of 09:38, 7 February 2017

I'm a professor at Meredith College in Raleigh. We do a real CS major, but there's only two of us teaching, so I wear many hats.

Stage 1 ... was somewhat overwhelming. There are tons of things to learn and we are all not in the same place. I'm sort of at the point of just learning how to get into a FOSS, so I was behind in the activities relating to how to teach this stuff (not that I'm worried -- I am already into the philosophy of the whole thing).

Stage 2 I'm writing this just as the workshop is finishing. It's still kinda overwhelming, but I know a lot more than I did. This whole thing leans on GitHub, which luckily I already use. Maybe the best thing I got was a pretty good answer to how to make my courses REALLY out there (and be able to just 'push' notes and have them get to the students).

Stage 3 ... yet to come.

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