FOSS Course, UPenn, Murphy

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HERE WE GO!

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Overview

This course exposes students to the cultural, technical, and legal aspects of FOSS development and provides students with an opportunity to work on a real-world open-source software project, and gain experience in software maintenance and enhancing software quality.

The course is targeted to upper-level undergraduate or graduate students who have completed a traditional software engineering course and have had experience working in groups.


Learning Objectives

Learning objectives go here!


Prerequisites

Prerequisites go here! Juniors and Seniors who know their way around github and who have had a software engineering course.


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
3 Getting Started in FOSS
  • Something
  • Something Else

Start Getting Involved in Project

  • Learning Activity
4 Ways of Contributing to FOSS
5 What Motivates People to Contribute to FOSS
  • Something
  • Something Else
6 Licensing and Legal Issues
  • Something
  • Something Else
7 FOSS Business Models and Opportunities
  • Something
  • Something Else
8 HFOSS
  • Something
  • Something Else
9 FOSS Success Stories
  • Something
  • Something Else
10 Starting and Growing a FOSS Community
  • Something
  • Something Else
11 Criticisms of FOSS
  • Something
  • Something Else


Project

Project info goes here!


Assessment

Assessment stuff goes here!

Personal tools
Namespaces
Variants
Actions
Events
Learning Resources
HFOSS Projects
Evaluation
Navigation
Toolbox