Intro to FOSS (Activity)

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Intro to FOSS

Preparation:

Description
Source  ?
Prerequisite Knowledge None
Estimated Time to Completion 60-90 minutes
Learning Objectives
Materials/Environment Access to Internet/Web and web browser.
Additional Information  ?
Rights Licensed CC BY-SA
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Background:

Welcome to the exploration of Open Source Software!


Directions

Expectations

The world of FOSS is large and complex. Producing a large software project is an complex and challenging process. As learning anything with high complexity, at first the amount to be learned may feel overwhelming. As you incrementally gain knowledge, you will gradually become more familiar with FOSS as well as becoming comfortable with not knowing all aspects of a project. Therefore:

  • We expect that you will feel lost. This
  • We understand that feeling lost may feel uncomfortable feeling lost

Talk about being productively lost - We expect you to be lost and we understand that the feeling may be uncomfortable Expectation is that you will feel overwhelmed, as if you were going to a foreign land.

Overview of FOSS

The following readings provide an introduction to FOSS

Example

 Discusses the foundation of Firefox which grew out of Netscape: 

Humanitarian FOSS

Humanitarian FOSS (HFOSS) is FOSS that does some social good. HFOSS projects can range from disaster management, micro-finance, health care, education and more. We have chosen to focus on HFOSS as the altruistic nature of HFOSS has the potential to attract more computing majors, and women in particular.

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