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 Introduction
  • Course logistics
  • Brief overview of FOSS
  • Fossisms

Blogs, IRC, and GitHub

2 FOSS Background
  • What are the intellectual, technical, and cultural foundations and justifications of FOSS?
  • How does FOSS differ from commercial software?

FOSS Field Trip and Project Evaluation

  • Learning Activity -- COMING SOON!
3 Getting Started in FOSS
  • How do you learn about a FOSS project's culture and community?
  • How do you get involved in and known within a community?

Start Getting Involved in Project

  • Learning Activity -- COMING SOON!
4 Ways of Contributing to FOSS
  • What are the different types of contributions someone can make to a FOSS project?
  • What is the process of making contributions?
5 What Motivates People to Contribute to FOSS
  • Why do people contribute to FOSS projects?
  • In what ways are people rewarded for their contributions?
  • Does motivation rely on the type of contribution, or vice-versa?
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!

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