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[edit] Rochester Institute of Technology
RIT
FOSS @ RIT has become a venue for a team of faculty, students, and community members interested in teaching free and open source software development through community service projects.
[edit] RIT's Honors seminar
Professors Stephen Jacobs and Eric Grace worked with Sugar Labs in Spring '09 to start a honors seminar, Developing for the One Laptop per Child XO, which involved teaching open source to about 20 students.
Thanks to Karlie Robinson, OLPC XO laptops were made available through the Fedora Ambassador XO program to enable work on the Math4 Team at RIT, a fourth grade math curriculum building project.
There is a draft syllabus available for Fall 2009. There is also a list of community tasks to help ensure a successful class.
[edit] Duplicate this course
In an effort to remain open source in all regards we will use this space to provide a one-stop-shop for all resources needed to adapt our combined efforts at your institution. Inside you will find lecture materials, projects that have been spawned from our students and community members and many other helpful items.
[edit] Sugar Summer Program
Three of the Honors Seminar students continued project work as unpaid volunteer Co-ops for the Summer 2009 quarter in the nascent Sugar Summer Program, which culminated in a field trip to the Sugar Labs - OLPC community in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
[edit] Community support efforts
Students, Co-ops, & Sugar Labs - OLPC community members are using this wiki to share ideas for class projects or open source learning laboratories.
- Comments, additions, and questions are welcome, either inline or on the discussion page.
[edit] Workshop at Red Hat
See RIT/Workshop at Red Hat for notes from our sessions to improve our efforts.