Introducing Students to FOSS Projects

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'Introducing Students to FOSS

In order to get a full understanding of FOSS, students should participate on existing projects, ideally with a large code base and an active community.

It is difficult, however, in the span of a semester to secure the participation of all the students into existing projects.

It looks like we need a sort of "Craigslist" of

  • FOSS projects that could use some help from students working in a class project for a semester, and
  • List of student's skills and interests

This could facilitate the matching between students and projects and avoid having students dedicating too much time to identifying a FOSS project.

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