OSDC article ideas

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The Open Source Developers' Conference in Melbourne, Australia on 24th to the 26th of November, 2010.

  • The history of academia (Matt Lavine?)
  • Differences between open sharing and academic publishing
  • Academic business model vs open source business models - "how do schools and professors make a living?"
  • The lie of "come one, come all" - invisible traceback stories (the failures you don't see hurt you most).
  • what does an open source hire look like?
  • "computational thinking" - buzzword of the moment
  • certificate programs and degree requirements ("what does a CS degree actually mean? You've fulfilled these requirements...") ("you should teach X!" "What do you want to take out of the curriculum in order to put X in?")
  • CS as the intersection of math, engineering, and science
  • Enrollment of CS has been dropping for 10 years. What are people doing about it? (Is it a problem?)
  • learning frameworks as ways of thinking about the growth of an open source developer - are open source communities learning communities without reflection? (bloom's taxonomy?)
  • "is open source crap?" (re: open teaching materials, the opinion that goes "sourceforge is filled with junk, if we teach students to do open source we're teaching them how to produce junk")
  • faculty evaluation process - "what counts?"
  • technology transfer offices at schools: sometimes a FOSS blocker
  • textbooks - how do faculty pick one for a class?
  • student misconceptions about open source (just because the gpl is in your code and you've worked on it with one other person does not mean your code is being written the open source way)
  • grading and evaluation of student work in FOSS - how?
  • nachos example of closed-code with version control (small operating system used for education purposes) - devil's advocate
  • "Open communities are like watching someone else's family fight."
  • "washing the dishes is a blocker" - focus time for learning, exploration, etc.
  • culture of privilege in computing and foss
  • unicorn talks
  • community bullshit detectors, and what can happen if you don't have them
  • why radical transparency is uncomfortable - and lack of it is also uncomfortable
  • how hiring committees work
  • visiting profs and adjuncts
  • "All you need is a single no, and everything goes down. All I need is a single yes, and everything goes up."
  • service research teaching
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