SIGCSE 2012/Workshop materials

[edit] Schedule

7:00 (10 min) Intro & Housekeeping (Greg) - Black culture stickypages setup in background (Mel & Sebastian)
7:10 (10 min) What's FOSS and TOS? (Greg) - IRC and etherpad setup in background (Mel, Sebastian, Karl, and Heidi)
7:20 (30 min) FOSS fieldtrip: ohloh et al (Heidi)
7:50 (20 min) Review of communication tools: "We've been using IRC and etherpad all along" (Karl)
8:10 (20 min) FOSS culture principles step-back (Mel & Sebastian)
8:30 (10 min) Break
8:40 (30 min) Course examples (Greg, Heidi, Karl, and Sebastian - Mel leads backchannel notes)
9:10 (40 min) Course workshopping (individual instructors lead small groups)
9:50 (10 min) Wrap-up

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Open http://sourceforge.net and http://ohloh.net in two different tabs or pages in your browser
Follow along with the exploration

Add the VideoMan project to the comparison of Cheese and Ekiga
Identify three positive factors about the VideoMan project
Identify three red flags about the VideoMan project
Pick a project domain to explore (e.g., gaming, disaster, networking, etc.) by searching on Ohloh
Identify a few selection criteria (e.g., programming language used, recency of changes, size of code base, etc.)
Pick two likely projects for use in your course (Hint: If you find one likely project, the "Similar Projects" link on the left may help you find a second)
Evaluate the two projects by identifying strengths and weaknesses
Select a project
Identify one person to contact in the community.....