Stage 2 Activities

Objectives

Participants completing the Stage 2 workshop will be able to:

• Describe the variety of learning activities that student participation in HFOSS projects may include
• Implement HFOSS activities appropriate for a particular curriculum and student population
• Explain challenges and opportunities of student HFOSS participation
• Discuss key aspects of FOSS culture and process
• Use a selection of tools common in HFOSS projects
• Select an HFOSS project well-suited for student participation
• Identify key sources of information for learning about HFOSS
• Identify other participants with similar ideas about applying HFOSS
• Participate in POSSE Stage 3

Schedule

Below is the schedule for the during-workshop activities.

Time	Activity	Team
	Day 1 (Afternoon and Evening)
1:30 PM	Leave the hotel for POSSE	All
2:00	1.1 Welcome Plan for the day Welcome to Raleigh and Red Hat Introducing everyone - a group task using Etherpad Workshop overview and schedule	Greg, Stoney
3:00	1.2 Examples of HFOSS in Education Examples of actual student contributions Small Group: A variety of assignments and samples of student work will be provided. Participants will evaluate the quality of the assignment and work Show one response and ask how they'd respond, how would you evaluate the assignment? What was the benefit of the assignment and why was it worth having this as an assignment? How does this fit with assessment? Provide one idea for scaling up or scaling down - modifications Report out	Stoney, Heidi
4:00	BREAK	All
4:15	1.3 Project Evaluation Activity Compare notes from stage 1.B.2 activity Review critical criteria for a chosen project Go through secondary criteria for chosen project (if time permits)	Heidi, Sean
5:30	Dinner - FOSS Visitor: Ed Gehringer, NC State	All
6:45	1.4 Project Intros and Typical Workflow Activity In groups, review the major features of the project Walk through the workflow for the project Clone out code for "test" project Fix a small bug in "test" project	Stoney
8:00	Social Hour - Optional	All
	Day 2
8:00	Leave the hotel for POSSE	All
8:15	Continental breakfast	All
8:30	2.1 Understanding Open Source Communities Perspective on a few example HFOSS communities Basic information: contact person, guide to getting started, Project Selection evaluation summary Understanding the community landscape and process Becoming a participant: lurking, joining the community, being visible, finding things to do Background: Results of Stage 1.B.1 learning activity	Greg
9:15	2.2 HFOSS in the Curriculum Discussion of options for getting started Example: A single HFOSS assignment in a course Example: HFOSS in a project course Example: HFOSS as a course HFOSS beyond the curriculum Trying to find the right size student project Evaluating student work Instructional style: mentoring vs. lecturing; instructor as co-learner	Heidi, Greg
10:30	Break	All
10:45	2.3 Planning for HFOSS Participation Small Group Discussion Form groups around HFOSS projects Identify possible courses and possible contributions Plan a first HFOSS activity at your institution Make use of assignment ideas generated by participants in Stage 1 B.4 and C.4 Exercise: Questions for OpenMRS group Questions for Ushahidi group Questions for GNOME group Questions for Sahana group	Darci, Greg
12:00	Lunch	All
1:00	2.4 Understanding POSSE Stage 3 Overview of Stage 3 group activities over the past year for: OpenMRS, Mousetrap, Ushahidi Evaluation in Stage 3 Group Informatics	Greg, Darci, Sean
1:45	2.5 Planning for POSSE Stage 3 Some experience reports from Stage 3 Small Group Discussion - discuss the following: List at least one modification to the Stage 3 process that you think would improve instructor support. Are there other examples/ideas for improving communication and instructor support? How will our group communicate and support each other? Can/how will we create joint activities? Report back on the group answers to the above questions	Stoney, Suzanne, Alex
3:00	Break	All
3:15	2.6 Group Hands-on Work Completing project set up in groups	All
5:00	Return to the hotel	All
5:30	Dinner - Vic's Italian Restaurant Raleigh NC, 331 Blake St, Raleigh, NC 27601-1801, 0.5 miles from Red Hat Annex, 0.3 miles from Hotel	All
	Day 3
8:00	Leave the hotel (checkout first)	All
8:15	Continental breakfast	All
8:30	3.1 HFOSS Process and Tools How tools fit and support HFOSS culture Upstream Adoption Version control - role in a FOSS project How to get a change committed. FERPA Licensing and Intellectual Property	Heidi, Tom, Gina
9:30	3.2 Sharing HFOSS Learning Activities Goal: to create a shared set of HFOSS learning activities Standard information to define each learning activity Existing learning activities and places to share new ones foss2serve.org, teachingopensource.org, swenet.org, computingportal.org	Stoney, Greg
10:15	Break	All
10:30	3.2 Sharing HFOSS Learning Activities - Continued Identify kinds of contributions students can make Brainstorming session Talk about how you would create student deliverables Now using the template, start to create the activity whose development began in 2.3 Make sure to make a copy of the template for each activity	Greg, Stoney, Darci
12:00	Lunch - FOSS Visitor: Helena Mitasova, NC State	All
12:45	3.2 Sharing HFOSS Learning Activities - Continued Groups report back on work done before lunch (early 3.2)	Greg, Stoney, Darci
1:45	3.3 Stage 3 - First Steps What will the group do together? Plan some initial activities (faculty only or faculty and students) Discuss group communication	Sean, Stoney
2:45	3.4 Going Forward Evaluation form Open discussion Closing remarks	Greg
3:30	End - shuttles and taxi to airport/train	All

Downloads

Here are the presentation materials for stage 2:

Pads

• https://titanpad.com/POSSE1509

IRC

• Server: irc.freenode.net
• Channel: #foss2serve

Standard IRC clients may not work at some workshop locations due to port blockage. If you have problems, please let the team know and try one of the Web-based IRC interfaces below.

Web-based IRC Clients

• http://webchat.freenode.net/ (has a limit from one IP)
• https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/
• http://www.mibbit.com/

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