User talk:Zzhang

FOSS Field Trip (Acitvity)

Part 1 - GitHub 1. There are 24,000 repositories in the category - Education 2. On the first project => (Insights) => Commits. This page provides information about project timeline. 3. There are 456 repositories in the category - Humanitarian 4. The HTBox/crisischeckin project was last updated on Oct. 24th 5. There are 415 repositories in the category - disaster management.

Part 2 - OpenHub 1. Search "education" returned about 2260 projects. 2. Yes there are code location on GitHub 3. There are 23 similar project listed. 4. OpenHub provides project status and statistical information about projects. 5. There are 23 projects when search for humanitarian and 30 projects for disaster management. 6. Why so many projects have no activity information available? 7. On Organizations page, it provides category information about organizations. 8. The last commit for OpenMRS Core is Feb 2018 9. On GitHub the last commit for OpenMRS is Nov. 25 (4 commits) 10. Why these sites have different information? They have different way to measure projects. 11. The benefits using both is you get more complete information. But it can be time consuming and frustrating too.

FOSS in Courses 1

Read Andy Lester and Craig Buckek's website info. and learned there are many ways to contribute to a project other than coding. Explored existing materials and went over materials related to Software Engineering and Process -> Specification and Design, Quality and Testing. Identified two interested activities in the top of SE that may fit in my class: (a) Use version control to let students developing software requirement specification; (b) User help desk bug/ticket tracking.