FOSS Field Trip (Activity)

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## How many repositories are there in this category?
 
## How many repositories are there in this category?
 
## Locate the HTBox project.  When was the last update?
 
## Locate the HTBox project.  When was the last update?
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# Use the Search feature to look for disaster relief applications.  Type the phrase disaster relief the search box and click Search.
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# Use the Search feature to look for disaster management applications.  Type the phrase disaster management the search box and click Search.
 
## How many projects are there in this category?
 
## How many projects are there in this category?
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# Pick a project in your category by clicking on the repository. Answer the questions below:
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## What does it do?
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## What programming language is the project written in?
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## Who is likely to use the project? How do you know this?
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## When was the most recent change made to the project?
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## How active is the project? How can you tell?
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## How many committers does the project have?
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## Would you use the project? Why or why not?
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# Create a new search for Humanitarian. Locate HTBox and answer the questions below
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## When was it last updated?
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## How many forks has it had?
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## Click on the project.  When was the last update?  Does this correspond with what you answered in #6.1?
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## How many contributors does it have?
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Keep this browser tab open while you move onto Part 2.
 
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'''Searching OpenHub:'''
 
'''Searching OpenHub:'''
 
# Go to: https://www.openhub.net/
 
# Go to: https://www.openhub.net/
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# In the upper-most search space, enter: Humanitarian
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# In the upper-most search space, enter: education
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# Notice that for many of the projects it says that the Activity is not Available while others are listed as Inactive or New Projects. Locate the GeoChat project.
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## Notice it tells you how many pages of results there are, not number of projects. By default, there should be 10 projects per page. How many projects were returned?
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## Where is the code for this project located?
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## KDE Education should be the second result.  Click on it.  Look on the right hand side of the page to see how to download it.  Where is the code base located?
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# Return to the search results.  Humanitarian Toolbox (HTBox) does not appear as any of the initial projects.  Search for Humanitarian Toolbox.
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## Notice that it provides several projects that are Similar.  Click on KStars.  Does this seem like a good suggestion of a similar project?
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## How many lines of code does the project have?
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## Scroll down.  What information does OpenHub provide about the project?
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## How many contributors does it have?
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# Perform searches for both humanitarian and disaster management.
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## When was the most recent commit?
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## How many projects were returned for each search?
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## Where is the code located?
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## Why do you think that so many projects do not have activity information available?
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# How does the information on this page compare to what you saw on GitHub?  
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# Click for OpenMRS.
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## When was the last commit for OpenMRS Core?
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## When was the last commit?  
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## Why do you think these sites have different information?
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# What would be the benefits/drawbacks of using both GitHub and OpenHub to search for a project?
  
 
=== Deliverables ===
 
=== Deliverables ===

Revision as of 21:52, 17 February 2017


Title

FOSS Field Trip - Browsing a Forge

Overview

Learners will gain an understanding of the breadth of available FOSS projects as well as differences between GitHub and OpenHub.

Prerequisites

None.

Learning
Objectives 		After successfully completing this activity, the learner should be able to:
  1. Search for FOSS projects by category on both GitHub and OpenHub.
  2. Look a difference features of GitHub and OpenHub.
Process Skills
Practiced
  1. Critical Thinking
  2. Information Processing


Background

Open source pre-dates the Web, but the Web and Internet connectivity have been essential for the blossoming of FOSS in recent years. FOSS projects need to be available on the Web to ever gain much attention. There are a growing number of sites (often called “forges”) that provide a home and visibility to FOSS projects (although many of the biggest projects live on their own sites).

Directions

POSSE Attendees: Please post your answers to the following questions on your foss2serve wiki.

Part 1 - GitHub

One of the best known of these FOSS project hosting sites is GitHub. In this activity you will search for projects on GitHub based upon category.

Do the following:

  1. Go to: https://github.com/
  2. Use the Search feature on the top right next to the Log In button to search for educational applications by placing the word education in the search box and click Search.
    1. How many repositories are there in this category?
    2. Click on the first project. Click on Graphs, then Commits. What information does this page provide?
  3. Go back to the main page and use the Search feature to look for humanitarian applications. Type the word humanitarian in the search box and click Search.
    1. How many repositories are there in this category?
    2. Locate the HTBox project. When was the last update?
  4. Use the Search feature to look for disaster management applications. Type the phrase disaster management the search box and click Search.
    1. How many projects are there in this category?

Keep this browser tab open while you move onto Part 2.

Part 2 - OpenHub

In this activity, you will use OpenHub to search for humanitarian projects.

Searching OpenHub:

  1. Go to: https://www.openhub.net/
  2. In the upper-most search space, enter: education
    1. Notice it tells you how many pages of results there are, not number of projects. By default, there should be 10 projects per page. How many projects were returned?
    2. KDE Education should be the second result. Click on it. Look on the right hand side of the page to see how to download it. Where is the code base located?
    3. Notice that it provides several projects that are Similar. Click on KStars. Does this seem like a good suggestion of a similar project?
    4. Scroll down. What information does OpenHub provide about the project?
  3. Perform searches for both humanitarian and disaster management.
    1. How many projects were returned for each search?
    2. Why do you think that so many projects do not have activity information available?
  4. Click on Organizations.
    1. What information is provided on this page?
  5. Click for OpenMRS.
    1. When was the last commit for OpenMRS Core?
  6. Go back to GitHub and search for OpenMRS Core.
    1. When was the last commit?
    2. Why do you think these sites have different information?
  7. What would be the benefits/drawbacks of using both GitHub and OpenHub to search for a project?

Deliverables

POSSE: Please post the answers to these questions on your foss2serve user wiki page.

Students: Wiki posting describing your explorations of GitHub and OpenHub.

Notes for Instructors

The remaining sections of this document are intended for the instructor. They are not part of the learning activity that would be given to students.

Assessment

  • How will the activity be graded?
  • How will learning will be measured?
  • Include sample assessment questions/rubrics.
Criteria Level 1 (fail) Level 2 (pass) Level 3 (good) Level 4 (exceptional)
The purpose of the project
Why the project is open source

Comments

  • What should the instructor know before using this activity?
  • What are some likely difficulties that an instructor may encounter using this activity?

Variants and Adaptations:

POGIL-style combined FOSS Field Trip and Project Evaluation used by Chris Murphy in his FOSS Course, UPenn, Murphy.

ACM BoK
Area & Unit(s)
ACM BoK
Topic(s)
Difficulty
Estimated Time
to Complete

30-60 minutes

Environment /
Materials

Access to Internet/Web and web browser.

Author(s)
Source

Detailed FOSS Field Trip

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

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Suggestions for Open Source Community

Suggestions for an open source community member who is working in conjunction with the instructor.

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