Teaching Open Source (Activity)

Title	TOS Activity
Overview	Learners will become members of the Teaching Open Source mailing list and add themselves to the People page.
Prerequisite Knowledge	None.
Learning Objectives	Ability to: 1) receive TOS list serv mailings, 2) add your name and contact information to the TOS roll call page.

Background:

Teaching Open Source is the primary website for academics interested in open source and involving their students in open source projects. TeachingOpenSource.org was set up in March 2009. The goal of the site is to foster collaboration and members are both academics and industry leaders.

Directions:

Part 1 - Joining the Teaching Open Source Mailing List

Teaching Open Source (TOS)- http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Main_Page - is a "neutral collaboration point for professors, institutions, communities, and companies to come together and make the teaching of Open Source a global success." You will visit this site and sign up for the list serv.

Do the following:

1. Go to: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Main_Page
2. Locate the Get Involved section.
3. Click the Join the mailing list link.
4. Read through the information on the resulting page. Click the mailing list link.
5. Complete the information in the form and click the Subscribe button.

Part 2 - Adding Yourself to the People Page on Teaching Open Source

One tool used by members of the open source world is wiki pages. During this part of the activity you will participate in the TOS community by creating a wiki page and introducing yourself to the community.

1. Go to: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Main_Page
2. Locate the Get Involved section.
3. Click the Add yourself to the roll call link.
4. Read through the page and see how people describe themselves on this page.
5. Locate Heidi Ellis in the roll call.
6. As you are looking at the entries in the roll call, notice that many of them include a link to google’s recaptcha mailhide. This link is what allows some of the emails to be hidden on the site and only be shown by using the captcha. The goal of this is to help reduce spam.
7. Return to the top of the page and click the create an account link.
8. This will bring you to the page for editing the wiki. Read down to the Joining the Wiki section.
9. Click the create an account link.
10. Enter the captcha information and complete the information requested. After you submit, you will receive a confirmation email.
11. Once you have successfully logged in, you can edit the Wiki page to add yourself to the Roll Call. Click edit on the right side of Professors to edit this page to add yourself.
12. The format of your entry should be, your name, your email, your institution/company/project, and whatever information you believe to be relevant about your work. For example,

    Lori Postner, 

    [http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide/d?k=01Rtfg9ZLZQjNmYicvEWSQfA==&c=KlmpA7OQR5-G_yA7RRSa_-yALTitdnnlyUB1Yg2y234= Email Address via reCAPTACH™ Mailhide] 

    Associate Professor at [http://www.matcmp.ncc.edu/~postnel Nassau Community College], 

    I am working with the foss2serve team to learn how to incorporate HFOSS into my Computer Science courses.

    Your entry should begin with an asterisk (*)
13. Click Save.

Deliverables:

None

Assessment:

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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:

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Additional Information:

ACM Knowledge Area/Knowledge Unit	What ACM Computing Curricula 2013 knowledge area and units does this activity cover? ACM_Body_of_Knowledge
ACM Topic	What specific topics are addressed? The Computing Curriucula 2013 provides a list of topics - https://www.acm.org/education/CS2013-final-report.pdf
Level of Difficulty	Is this activity easy, medium or challenging?
Estimated Time to Completion	20-30 minutes
Materials/Environment	Access to Internet/Web and web browser and email client.
Author	Who wrote this activity?
Source	Teaching Open Source web site
License	Licensed CC BY-SA

Suggestions for Open Source Community:

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