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. Examples of HFOSS in Education
   • 50 ways to be a FOSSer - 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 specific examples of existing student contributions
2. Open Source Communities
   • Overview of 2-3 HFOSS projects: contact person, guide to getting started, Project Selection evaluation summary
   • Talk about FOSS Field trips and how they can be modified for student use.
   • POSSE Stage 3: Discussion of projects and indication of interest
3. 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
4. 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.

Day 3

1. Upstream Adoption
   • Lesson on how to get a change committed.
   • More info here: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_curriculum#Wednesday
2. 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.
3. Going Forward
   • How to Lay Plans for Future Work
   • More info here: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_curriculum#Thursday
4. 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
5. 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?

Other ideas to capture:

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