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=== First Two Weeks - Approximately 5-5.5 hours (Due by May 4th, 2013) ===
 
=== First Two Weeks - Approximately 5-5.5 hours (Due by May 4th, 2013) ===
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The activities in these first two weeks will start to introduce you to the world of FOSS projects, the community of faculty interested in student participation in FOSS projects, and a few of the basic communication tools commonly used in FOSS projects.
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# '''[[Intro_to_FOSS_Activity| Introduction to FOSS]]''' – 60 minutes
 
# '''[[Intro_to_FOSS_Activity| Introduction to FOSS]]''' – 60 minutes
 
# '''[[TOS_Activity | Join TOS]]''' - 30 minutes
 
# '''[[TOS_Activity | Join TOS]]''' - 30 minutes
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#* Faculty members sign up for TOS list and enter themselves in the "People" area
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#* Participants sign up for TOS list and enter themselves in the "People" area
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# Introduction to Wikis - 30-45 minutes
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# '''[[Wiki_Activity|Introduction to Wikis]]''' - 30-45 minutes
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#* Activity that describes wikis and has faculty members create their own page and post an introduction
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#* Provides an overview of wikis and short exercise in which participants create their own page and post an introduction
 
# '''[[Intro_IRC_Activity | Introduction to IRC]]''' - 60-75 minutes   
 
# '''[[Intro_IRC_Activity | Introduction to IRC]]''' - 60-75 minutes   
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#* Reading(s) about IRC
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#* Provides an overview of IRC including features and function and an introduction to the role of IRC in FOSS projects
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#* Install an IRC client of choice
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#* Walk through actual examples of IRC conversations
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#* Prepare expectations: -
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## Tell faculty to look at the interactions and ignore the technical terms.
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## Much of the technical content may not be understandable at this point.
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## Observe the communication patterns.
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## How to people interact?
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## What is the pattern of communication?
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#* This one step in being productively lost.
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#* Lurk in meeting of preferred HFOSS group
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#** Have students join a channel for 24 hours –
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#** Give students a selection of channels to observe
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#* Make an observation on lurking on faculty member’s wiki page
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#** Could also be a question about future materials.
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# IRC Meeting - 60 minutes
 
# IRC Meeting - 60 minutes
 
#* Introductions
 
#* Introductions

Revision as of 02:54, 17 April 2013

Below is the schedule for the pre-workshop activities. Participants should finish all activities in a timely fashion in order to be reimbursed for travel expenses to the face-to-face portion of the workshop. Please send all comments to Heidi Ellis (ellis@wne.edu).

First Two Weeks - Approximately 5-5.5 hours (Due by May 4th, 2013)

The activities in these first two weeks will start to introduce you to the world of FOSS projects, the community of faculty interested in student participation in FOSS projects, and a few of the basic communication tools commonly used in FOSS projects.

  1. Introduction to FOSS – 60 minutes
  2. Join TOS - 30 minutes
    • Participants sign up for TOS list and enter themselves in the "People" area
  3. Introduction to Wikis - 30-45 minutes
    • Provides an overview of wikis and short exercise in which participants create their own page and post an introduction
  4. Introduction to IRC - 60-75 minutes
    • Provides an overview of IRC including features and function and an introduction to the role of IRC in FOSS projects
  5. IRC Meeting - 60 minutes
    • Introductions
    • Discussion of HFOSS projects
  6. Intro to FOSS Projects and Dynamics - 60 minutes
    • The idea here is to provide an introduction to the landscape of a FOSS project. Introduce major players and define key terms such as releases, packing, upstream and downstream, trackers, tickets, roadmap, etc.
    • First couple of chapters in "Productively Lost" ?
    • Mel has a good overview of some parts in "Roadmap Merge" activity here: http://mchua.fedorapeople.org/posse/POSSE-booklet.pdf

Second Two Weeks - Approximately 4-4.5 hours (Due by May 18th, 2013)

  1. Blogging Activity - 60 minutes
    • Reading on blogs and planets
    • Observe several blogs
      • Provide a selection of blogs to observe
    • Post to wiki about how blogs might be used in classes.
  2. FOSS Field Trip - 60 minutes, blog on what you learned on your wiki page or blog
  3. FOSS in Courses Planning 1 - 60 minutes, post your selected activity to your wiki page.
  4. Project Evaluation Activity - 60-90 minutes
    • Pared down evaluation of HFOSS project based on the evaluation metric.
    • Post results to wiki

Third Two Weeks - Approximately 5 hours (Due by June 1st, 2013)

  1. IRC Meeting - 60 minutes
    • Discuss progress
    • Guidance for selecting a project
  2. Bug-Tracker Activity - 60 minutes
    • Investigate an existing bug tracker - likely one related to the project that they have chosen
    • HE has a template for this activity, not online anywhere yet.
  3. Source Code Management/Control Activity - 60 minutes
    • Need some content for here. Something that would get the idea of forking and conflict across with low overhead.
  4. FOSS in Courses Planning 2 - 60-90 minutes, post your selected activity to your wiki page.
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