[edit] Motivation

The goals of educating students on the use of FOSS could be defined in terms of what we expect these students to know, and the skills we expect them to develop by the end of a course.

[edit] Suggested List

We expect that a FOSS-literate person should have a solid background in the following topics

[edit] Economics

Scarcity
Rivalrous goods
Excludable goods
Public goods and how they are funded

[edit] Law

Copyright
Patents
Trademarks
Trade Secrets

[edit] Software Licensing

Free Software Licenses
Open Source Software Licenses
How to read a license
How to choose a license

[edit] Software Practices

Revision Control
- CVS / SVN / GIT....
Project Coordination
- Wikis
- IRC / IM...
Quality Control
- Bug tracking
- Dashboards, Nightly builds
Quality Coding
- Writing code that others can understand ten years later
- Writing maintainable code
Making releases
- Branching
- Patching
Managing Packages
- Helping to package a project
- Using packages

[edit] Community Management

Governance
- Benevolent Dictatorship
- Concensus
How to deal with difficult people
Email/Forum etiquette
Developing policies
- Process for giving write access to a new developer
- Process for kicking a developer out

[edit] History

How it all started... and continues.

The FSF Movement
The OSI
The GNU Project
Linux

[edit] Social Implications

The Wikipedia
The Creative Commons
Open Access (scientific publishing)
Open Source Movies (Blender Foundation)
Open Source Music
- Kompoz
- Jamendo
- Magnatunes

[edit] Business Models

How to make a living with FOSS
Wikinomics
Coase's Penguin Paper
Case studies
- The importance of FOSS in in-house development
Adoption of FOSS
- Financial industry
- Government
  - Defense
- Entertainment industry
- Manufacturing
- Medical Device Manufacturers

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