Stage 2 Activities

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Objectives

Participants completing the Stage 2 workshop will be able to:

  • Name and explain a variety of learning activities that student participation in HFOSS projects may include
  • Plan and implement HFOSS activities appropriate for their curriculum and students
  • Explain challenges and opportunities of student HFOSS participation
  • Discuss key aspects of FOSS culture and process
  • Select HFOSS projects better suited for student participation
  • Identify key sources of information for learning about HFOSS
  • Participate in POSSE Stage 3

Schedule

Below is the schedule for the during-workshop activities.


Time Activity Team
Day 1 (Afternoon and Evening)
1:30 PM Leave the hotel for POSSE All
2:00 1.1 Welcome
  • Plan for the day
  • Welcome to Philadelphia and the College of Computing and Informatics
  • Introducing everyone - a group task
    • Using an Etherpad
      • Enter your own name
      • Enter one or two "fun facts" about someone else, who you will introduce to the group
Greg, Stoney
3:00 1.2 Overview
  • Introduction of participants
  • Schedule overview
  • POSSE, foss2serve, FOSS and HFOSS
  • The OpenFE team
Heidi, Greg
4:00 BREAK All
4:15 1.3 Examples of HFOSS in Education
  • Examples of actual student contributions
  • Small Group: A variety of assignments and samples of student work will be provided. Participants will evaluate the quality of the assignment and work
    • Show one response and ask how they'd respond, how would you evaluate the assignment?
    • What was the benefit of the assignment and why was it worth having this as an assignment?
    • How does this fit with assessment?
    • Provide one idea for scaling up or scaling down - modifications
    • Report out
Stoney, Heidi
5:30 Dinner All
6:30 1.4 Project Intros and selection
  • Initial discussion to present project and open to questions
    • Does language matter in your environment?
    • Does platform matter?
    • What are your most important criteria? Topic/Content area?
    • What are the deal-breakers for your environment?
  • Form groups based upon the projects and discuss if this project will suit your needs
Greg, Karl (OpenMRS), Cam (Ushahidi), Joanie (GNOME)
8:00 Social Hour - Optional All
Day 2
8:00 Leave the hotel for POSSE All
8:15 Continental breakfast All
8:30 2.1 HFOSS in the Curriculum
  • Discussion of options for getting started
  • Example: A single HFOSS assignment in a course
  • Example: HFOSS in a project course
  • Example: HFOSS as a course
  • HFOSS beyond the curriculum
Greg, Karl
9:15 2.2 Understanding Open Source Communities
  • FOSSisms
  • Perspective on a few example HFOSS communities
    • Basic information: contact person, guide to getting started, Project Selection evaluation summary
    • Understanding the community landscape and process
    • Becoming a participant: lurking, joining the community, being visible, finding things to do
  • Background: Results of Stage 1.B.1 and 1.B.4 learning activities
Heidi, Joanie, Cam
10:30 Break All
10:45 2.3 Planning for HFOSS Participation
  • Small Group Discussion
  • Form groups around HFOSS projects
  • Identify possible courses and possible contributions
  • Plan a first HFOSS activity at your institution
  • Make use of assignment ideas generated by participants in Stage 1 B.4 and C.4
Darci, Lori
12:00 Lunch All
1:00 2.4 Pedagogy and Course Management
  • Trying to find the right size student project
  • Evaluating student work
  • Licensing and intellectual property
  • Instructional style: mentoring vs. lecturing; instructor as co-learner
  • FERPA
Heidi, Karl
1:45 2.5 Understanding POSSE Stage 3
  • Overview of stage 3 group activities over the past year for: OpenMRS, Mousetrap, Ushahidi

- what has worked and what hasn't

  • Evaluation in Stage 3
  • Group Informatics
Lori (OpenMRS), Stoney (Mousetrap), Cam (Ushahidi), Sean
3:00 Break All
3:15 2.6 Planning for POSSE Stage 3
  • Small Group Discussion - discuss the following:
    • List at least one modification to the Stage 3 process that you think would improve instructor support.
    • Are there other examples/ideas for improving communication and instructor support?
    • How will our group communicate and support each other?
    • Can/how will we create joint activities?
    • Report back on the group answers to the above questions
  • A closer look at stage 3 tools (Canvas, GitHub, etc.)
Team
5:00 Return to the hotel All
6:00 Dinner - Pietro's, 1714 Walnut St. (meet in the Sonesta lobby at 5:45) All
Day 3
8:00 Leave the hotel (checkout first) All
8:15 Continental breakfast All
8:30 3.1 HFOSS Process and Tools: Communication
  • How tools fit and support HFOSS culture
    • IRC and meetbots: Why don't we just use video chat?
    • Wikis, forums, listservs
    • Blogs and planets
Sean, Greg, Joanie
9:15 3.2 HFOSS Process and Tools: Coordination and Control
  • Upstream Adoption
    • Version control - role in a FOSS project
    • How to get a change committed.
Stoney, Joanie
10:00 Break All
10:30 3.3 Sharing HFOSS Learning Activities
  • Goal: to create a shared set of HFOSS learning activities
  • Standard information to define each learning activity
  • Existing learning activities and places to share new ones
    • foss2serve.org, teachingopensource.org, swenet.org, computingportal.org
  • Brainstorming session
    • Where would you like to have an HFOSS activity in your curriculum?
    • What would that activity be?
Greg, Darci
11:30 3.4 Getting Started on a Project
  • Alternatives
    • Download and install an HFOSS project (Stage 3 choice)
    • Identify a small contribution that you could make.
    • Talk about how you would create student deliverables?
Stoney, Joanie
12:00 Lunch All
12:45 3.4 Getting Started on a Project - continued
1:45 3.5 Stage 3 - First Steps
  • What will the group do together?
  • Plan some initial activities (faculty only or faculty and students)
  • Discuss group communication
Lori
2:45 3.6 Going Forward
  • Evaluation form
  • Open discussion
  • Closing remarks
Greg
3:30 End - shuttles and taxi to airport/train All

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