User:Jmcguffee

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James W. McGuffee

James McGuffee is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department at Northern Kentucky University (NKU). NKU is located approximately 5 miles south of downtown Cincinnati. The Computer Science Department at NKU has over 850 students in five degree programs. The three undergraduate degrees are: computer information technology, computer science, and data science. The two masters degree programs are in computer information technology and computer science.

I am interested in exploring how I may use FOSS and HFOSS to engage students in out-of-class collaborative projects and how FOSS projects can be used to introduce/inspire first semester freshmen to the larger world of computing (beyond the syntax of a first language).

As part of POSSE 2014, I would like to work with the OpenMRS HFOSS community.

Intro IRC Activity

Part 1 - Questions

How do people interact? -Via short text bursts

What is the pattern of communication? -short, choppy sentences with no great regard for puncuation or grammar

Are there any terms that seem to have special meaning? - #info, #action, #topic, *, #endmeeting

Can you make any other observations? - the folks chatting seem to know each other prior to this conversation

Part 3 Summarize your observations (of your selected HFOSS project) on your faculty wiki page.

I chose the OpenMRS proejct. I tried to create an OpenMRS account but my IP was flagged as SPAM. This may be related to recent concern re: "heartbleed".

I think I observed that MOST of the development comunity uses Google Hangouts to communicate and NOT dated IRC technology. I was able to view some vide captures of Google Hangouts meetings. The meetings seemed to take a LONG time to make even the simplest of point.