FOSS Course, UPenn, Murphy

• Course logistics
• Brief overview of FOSS
• Fossisms

Blogs, IRC, and GitHub

• Activity: Blog_Activity
• Activity: Intro_IRC_Activity
• Activity: Git:_GitHub_Issues_and_Pull_Requests

• What are the intellectual, technical, and cultural foundations and justifications of FOSS?
• How does FOSS differ from commercial software?

FOSS Field Trip and Project Evaluation

• Learning Activity -- COMING SOON!

• Wikipedia article on FOSS
• Eric Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• Richard Stallman, "Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software"

• How do you learn about a FOSS project's culture and community?
• How do you get involved in and known within a community?

Start Getting Involved in Project

• Learning Activity -- COMING SOON!

• https://opensource.com/life/13/4/ten-ways-participate-open-source
• https://blog.newrelic.com/2014/05/05/open-source_gettingstarted/

• What are the different types of contributions someone can make to a FOSS project?
• What is the process of making contributions?

• https://icontribute.wordpress.com/how-to-contribute-to-open-source-without-coding/
• http://blog.smartbear.com/programming/14-ways-to-contribute-to-open-source-without-being-a-programming-genius-or-a-rock-star/
• http://words.steveklabnik.com/how-to-be-an-open-source-gardener

• Why do people contribute to FOSS projects?
• In what ways are people rewarded for their contributions?
• Does motivation rely on the type of contribution, or vice-versa?

• Yunwen Ye and Kouichi Kishida, "Toward an Understanding of the Motivation of Open Source Software Developers", ICSE 2003
• J. Blitzer, W. Schrettl, and P. J. H. Schroder, "Intrinsic Motivation in Open Source Software Development", Journal of Comparative Economics 35:1

• Something
• Something Else

• http://opensource.org/faq
• http://opensource.com/law/13/1/which-open-source-software-license-should-i-use
• http://oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/fossandpatents

• Something
• Something Else

• https://handsontable.com/blog/articles/5-successful-business-models-for-web-based-open-source-projects
• http://www.zdnet.com/article/11-open-source-business-models/
• http://www.cio.com/article/2944334/open-source-development/why-the-open-source-business-model-is-a-failure.html

• Something
• Something Else

• http://timreview.ca/article/399
• https://opensource.com/life/15/2/getting-involved-hfoss
• http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/09/hfoss_software_for_humanity_computer_science_students_solve_real_world_problems.html

• Something
• Something Else

• http://mediashift.org/2013/08/6-things-to-know-about-successful-open-source-software/
• http://www.infoworld.com/article/3058778/open-source-tools/the-secrets-to-linkedins-open-source-success.html
• http://www.techrepublic.com/article/red-hats-open-source-success-story-built-on-killing-complexity-in-it/
• https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/13/please-dont-tell-me-you-want-to-be-the-next-red-hat/

• Something
• Something Else

• http://oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/howtobuildcommunity
• http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/building-and-maintaining-an-open-source/240168415
• https://opensource.com/business/14/7/building-open-source-community

• Something
• Something Else

• http://www.ashedryden.com/blog/the-ethics-of-unpaid-labor-and-the-oss-community
• http://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-doesnt-really-care-about-open-source/
• http://www.infoworld.com/article/2905331/open-source-software/the-new-struggles-facing-open-source.html