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 Workshop overview and schedule	Greg, Stoney
3:00	1.2 HFOSS in Education 50 Ways to be a FOSSer Examples of actual student contributions Exercise 1.2 - Sample HFOSS Assignment	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, Lori
5:30	Dinner - working / social dinner at the Red Hat Annex	All
6:45	1.4 GitHub Workflow Activity Hands-on exploration of a basic developer workflow Clone out code for "test" project Fix a small bug in "test" project	Stoney
8:00	Return to the hotel	All
8:30	Social Hour - Optional	All
	Day 2
Dawn	Breakfast - at the hotel - Optional	All
8:00	Leave the hotel for POSSE	All
8:30	2.1 Understanding Open Source Communities Perspective on basic characteristics common in HFOSS communities FOSSisms that capture FOSS culture and methods Approaching an HFOSS community as a potential new contributor Basic information for getting started Understanding the community landscape and process Becoming a participant:	Greg
9:15	2.2 HFOSS in the Curriculum Options for getting started in courses 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 or interests	Darci, Greg
12:00	Lunch - at the Red Hat Annex	All
1:00	2.4 Understanding POSSE Stage 3 Small project groups Evaluation POSSE community	Greg, Lori
1:45	2.5 Planning for POSSE Stage 3 Some experience reports from Stage 3 Small Group Discussion about Stage 3 Report back on the full group	Stoney, Robert, Lynn
3:00	Break	All
3:15	2.6 Group Hands-on Work Completing project set up or other task selected by each small group	All
5:30	Dinner - Vic's Italian Restaurant, 331 Blake St, Raleigh	All
7:00	Return to the hotel	All
	Day 3
Dawn	Breakfast - at the hotel - Optional	All
8:00	Leave the hotel (checkout first)	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 - at the Red Hat Annex	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	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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