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Open source software development is growing in importance every year. So it’s critical that the technical leaders of tomorrow — software developers, computer scientists, system administrators, analysts, and build engineers — understand open source tools, culture, and concepts.

The best way to do that (we believe) is by participating in open source community projects.

This site, and the TOS (Teaching Open Source) community behind it, is dedicated to bridging the gap between traditional CS/SE curricula and student work in open source communities. This is a community where professors, institutions, communities, and companies can come together and make the teaching of open source a global success.

Like any community, we’re only as strong as our members, so we need you to join us!!

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  • Teaching Open Source recognized in Educause article Thursday, September 21, 2017 Teaching Open Source recognized in Educause articleEDUCAUSE’s 7 Things You Should Know About …™ is a series of publications that address a diverse range of professional challenges in higher education IT, from updates on current developments to explorations of important overarching issues. In August of 2017, the organization offered insights in ...
  • BOF on using Open Source for Diversity and Inclusion at Tapia Tuesday, September 19, 2017 Chris Murphy, Nanette Veilleux and Jan Pearce and Judy Weng (a graduate student at UPenn) will be leading a Birds of a Feather on “Addressing Diversity & Inclusion Issues in Computer Science through Contributions to Free and Open Source Software”  at this week’s Tapia Celebration of Diversity ...
  • Apply for POSSE (Raleigh, NC, Nov 16-18, 2017) Tuesday, August 8, 2017 Where: Red Hat offices, Raleigh, NC Would you like to support student involvement in humanitarian free and open source software (HFOSS)? Full-time faculty at U.S. institutions are invited to join us at the Professors’ Open Source Software Experience (POSSE) workshop. Over 100 faculty members have attended the workshop ...
  • Wrap-up of POSSE in Italy from Google Tuesday, August 8, 2017 Google showcased their involvement with POSSE in a recent post on the opensource.googleblog.com blog:  This year Google was proud to not only host a workshop at our San Francisco office in April, but also to collaborate with the organizers to bring a POSSE workshop to Europe for ...
  • POSSE in Italy a success! Tuesday, July 11, 2017 POSSE in Italy a success!Gustavo Pinto, a participant in the recently completed POSSE held in Bologna, Italy, has written up a great experience report about the workshop. SaveSave SaveSave
  • Teaching Open Source joins the Software Freedom Conservancy Thursday, June 15, 2017 Software Freedom Conservancy is proud to announce that Teaching Open Source has joined Conservancy as a member project. Teaching Open Source (TOS) is a community of educators, developers, and organizations who create resources and document best practices for teaching free and open source software development, ...
  • Live Coding – every Wednesday! Thursday, May 18, 2017 We’ve heard that it might be useful for students to be able to watch someone live code — well, guess what?! We’ve found someone at Mozilla is doing it — every Wednesday at 1pm Eastern! Find the list of upcoming topics here, and check out ...
  • In progress — POSSE in San Francisco Saturday, April 22, 2017 In progress -- POSSE in San FranciscoWe’ve been here in the downtown Google offices in beautiful San Francisco for the past few days, exploring how to teach open source and incorporate humanitarian free and open source (HFOSS) project work into computer science and software engineering classes.  We even escaped being part ...
  • POSSE Alumna Named New Hampshire TechEducator Wednesday, April 5, 2017 POSSE Alumna Named New Hampshire TechEducatorMihaela Sabin, a 2010 Professor’s Open Source Software Experience alumna has been recognized as New Hampshire’s TechEducator of the year. Congratulations Mihaela!!  
  • Hunter College Students Learning About Open Source Sunday, April 2, 2017 In the fall 2016 semester, in the Computer Science Department at Hunter College, computer science majors and a few non-majors were exposed to the concept of open source software, open data, and HFOSS. To the best of my knowledge (and I have been teaching there ...
 

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