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This page has the activities and assignments for a 10 week course (the 11th week is finals) on participation in a FOSS project

Overview

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Learning Objectives

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Prerequisites

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Weekly Schedule

Week	Topics/Activities	Reading Assignments
1	Course Overview, Intro to FOSS Something Something Else Blogs, IRC, and GitHub Learning Activity
2	FOSS Background Something Something Else FOSS Field Trip and Project Evaluation Learning Activity	Wikipedia article on FOSS Eric Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar Richard Stallman, "Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software"
3	Getting Started in FOSS Something Something Else Start Getting Involved in Project Learning Activity	https://opensource.com/life/13/4/ten-ways-participate-open-source https://blog.newrelic.com/2014/05/05/open-source_gettingstarted/
4	Ways of Contributing to FOSS	https://icontribute.wordpress.com/how-to-contribute-to-open-source-without-coding/ http://blog.smartbear.com/programming/14-ways-to-contribute-to-open-source-without-being-a-programming-genius-or-a-rock-star/ http://words.steveklabnik.com/how-to-be-an-open-source-gardener
5	What Motivates People to Contribute to FOSS Something Something Else	Yunwen Ye and Kouichi Kishida, "Toward an Understanding of the Motivation of Open Source Software Developers", ICSE 2003 J. Blitzer, W. Schrettl, and P. J. H. Schroder, "Intrinsic Motivation in Open Source Software Development", Journal of Comparative Economics 35:1
6	Licensing and Legal Issues Something Something Else	http://opensource.org/faq http://opensource.com/law/13/1/which-open-source-software-license-should-i-use http://oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/fossandpatents
7	FOSS Business Models and Opportunities Something Something Else	https://handsontable.com/blog/articles/5-successful-business-models-for-web-based-open-source-projects http://www.zdnet.com/article/11-open-source-business-models/ http://www.cio.com/article/2944334/open-source-development/why-the-open-source-business-model-is-a-failure.html
8	HFOSS Something Something Else	http://timreview.ca/article/399 https://opensource.com/life/15/2/getting-involved-hfoss http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/09/hfoss_software_for_humanity_computer_science_students_solve_real_world_problems.html
9	FOSS Success Stories Something Something Else	http://mediashift.org/2013/08/6-things-to-know-about-successful-open-source-software/ http://www.infoworld.com/article/3058778/open-source-tools/the-secrets-to-linkedins-open-source-success.html http://www.techrepublic.com/article/red-hats-open-source-success-story-built-on-killing-complexity-in-it/ https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/13/please-dont-tell-me-you-want-to-be-the-next-red-hat/
10	Starting and Growing a FOSS Community Something Something Else	http://oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/howtobuildcommunity http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/building-and-maintaining-an-open-source/240168415 https://opensource.com/business/14/7/building-open-source-community
11	Criticisms of FOSS Something Something Else	http://www.ashedryden.com/blog/the-ethics-of-unpaid-labor-and-the-oss-community http://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-doesnt-really-care-about-open-source/ http://www.infoworld.com/article/2905331/open-source-software/the-new-struggles-facing-open-source.html

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 * [http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~yunwen/papers/ICSE03.pdf Yunwen Ye and Kouichi Kishida, "Toward an Understanding of the Motivation of Open Source Software Developers", ICSE 2003]
 * [http://www.diss.fu-berlin.de/docs/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/FUDOCS_derivate_000000000137/discpaper19_04.pdf J. Blitzer, W. Schrettl, and P. J. H. Schroder, "Intrinsic Motivation in Open Source Software Development", Journal of Comparative Economics 35:1]
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+* http://mediashift.org/2013/08/6-things-to-know-about-successful-open-source-software/
+* http://www.infoworld.com/article/3058778/open-source-tools/the-secrets-to-linkedins-open-source-success.html
+* http://www.techrepublic.com/article/red-hats-open-source-success-story-built-on-killing-complexity-in-it/
+* https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/13/please-dont-tell-me-you-want-to-be-the-next-red-hat/
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+* http://oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/howtobuildcommunity
+* http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/building-and-maintaining-an-open-source/240168415
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+* http://www.ashedryden.com/blog/the-ethics-of-unpaid-labor-and-the-oss-community
+* http://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-doesnt-really-care-about-open-source/
+* http://www.infoworld.com/article/2905331/open-source-software/the-new-struggles-facing-open-source.html
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