User:Mmagnusson

Matthew Magnusson – University of New Hampshire, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Department of Computer Science

Matthew Magnusson is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, CEPS. Matthew currently teaches course work in software development fundamentals, computer architecture, and business process automation. Matthew holds a Masters of Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters of Business Administration from the Peter T. Paul School at UNH.

Projects Reviewed

• Sugar - liked the structured approach and appears to be a good example of a properly structured HFOSS project. Surprised the blog, had spam posts on it. Seems to detract from quality of project
• Sahana Eden - Feel that this project could be a good one for introducing software that could apply directly to "real world" programming challenges.

General Observations

• Surprised at how IRC is a common tool for these projects
• Surprised at the low level of communication on IRC for projects, expected more conversations
• Helpful to have specific needs highlighted for different roles.
• Think the documentation aspect of projects could be a good way to reinforce good software engineering practices with students.

Foss Field Trip

• Part 1 - Github

   * 20,758 repository results matching key word "education"
   * dates of commits, days of week of commits
   * 400 repository results matching key word "humanitarian"
   * 238 repository results matching query "disaster management"

• Part 2 - OpenHub

   * 2,260 repository results matching key word "education"
   * No code on github
   * 4 similar projects
   * Summary, in a nutshell, licenses, code lines, commits, languages, contributors
   * 30 humanitarian, 30 disaster management
   * Not sure on why no activity
   * Latest and most active organizations, stats by sector, 
   * Open Hub - 3 months a go, Github - 4 days ago
   * Difference due to delay in analysis on openhub, but openhub gives more structured metadata on project
   * Sites provide different level of detail and openhub provides a cross-cut of organization activity