Stage 2 Activities

Below is the schedule for the during-workshop activities. This is only a very preliminary draft. All comments to Heidi Ellis (ellis@wne.edu).

Day 1 (Evening)

1. Workshop Overview
   • Introduction of participants
   • Schedule
2. Intro to FOSS
   • Intro to FOSS culture
   • Brief history of FOSS

Day 2

1. The Community
   • One idea here would be to provide a hands-on tour of a FOSS project, identifying all the major features and how they work along the way.
   • The idea is to walk folks through how to get started on a project.
   • Talk about FOSS Field trips and how they can be modified for student use.
2. Licensing and IP - Move to Pre-Workshop?
   • I'm concerned that this topic may raise questions that might be better handled f2f? Or should we set up an IRC to specifically address this?
3. Education Examples
   • The idea here is to provide an idea of the variety of different contributions that can be made
   • This would be a high level overview of what students have done, without lots of detail on how.
   • Provide examples of existing student contributions
4. Course Management
   • For a project course: roadmap - learning outcomes and schedule of deliverables
   • For a single assignment: setting learning outcomes
   • Trying to find the right size project
   • Evaluating student work
   • Instructional style: mentoring vs. lecturing; instructor as co-learner
5. POSSE Stage 3: Selecting a Project and forming a group
   • Overview of several HFOSS projects: contact person, guide to getting started, Project Selection evaluation summary
   • Discussion and indication of interest
6. Getting Started on a Project
   • Use Mousetrap?
   • Now lets get folks started in an HFOSS project.
   • Download and install an HFOSS project
   • Identify a small change that you could make.
   • Basic outline is here: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_curriculum#Tuesday
   • Talk about how you would create student deliverables?
   • Experience reports from faculty on how they did this in a classroom.
7. Upstream Adoption
   • Lesson on how to get a change committed.
   • More info here: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_curriculum#Wednesday
8. Detailed Examples
   • Provide a more indepth walk through of how students accomplished the examples we presented in item 4 above.
   • Talk about assignments, grading, interacting with the community within a case study.
9. Going Forward
   • How to Lay Plans for Future Work
   • More info here: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_curriculum#Thursday
10. Student Involvement
    • Make this an open session where participants design their own approach to using FOSS in a classroom?
      • Have instructors wander the room and answer questions
    • More info here: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_curriculum#Friday

Other ideas to capture:

• how to measure value added to an ongoing project started by others