Stage 2 Activities

From TeachingOpenSource

Objectives

Participants completing the Stage 2 workshop will be able to:

  • Describe the variety of learning activities that student participation in HFOSS projects may include
  • Implement HFOSS activities appropriate for a particular curriculum and student population
  • Explain challenges and opportunities of student HFOSS participation
  • Discuss key aspects of FOSS culture and process
  • Use a selection of tools common in HFOSS projects
  • Select an HFOSS project well-suited for student participation
  • Identify key sources of information for learning about HFOSS
  • Identify other participants with similar ideas about applying HFOSS
  • Participate in POSSE Stage 3

Schedule

Below is the schedule for the during-workshop activities.


Time Activity Team
Day 1 (Afternoon and Evening)
1:30 PM Leave the hotel for POSSE All
2:00 1.1 Welcome
  • Plan for the day
  • Welcome to Philadelphia
  • Introducing everyone
  • Workshop overview and schedule
Greg, Stoney
3:00 1.2 HFOSS in Education
  • 50 Ways to be a FOSSer
  • Examples of actual student contributions
  • Exercise 1.2 - Sample HFOSS Assignment
Stoney, Heidi
4:00 BREAK All
4:15

1.3 Project Evaluation Activity

  • Compare notes from stage 1.B.2 activity
  • Review critical criteria for a chosen project
  • Go through secondary criteria for chosen project (if time permits)
Heidi, Lori
5:30 Dinner - working / social dinner All
6:45 1.4 GitHub Workflow Activity
  • Hands-on exploration of a basic developer workflow
    • Clone out code for "test" project
    • Fix a small bug in "test" project
Stoney
8:00 Return to the hotel All
8:30 Social Hour - Optional All
Day 2
7:45 Leave the hotel for POSSE All
8:00 Breakfast All
8:30 2.1 Understanding Open Source Communities
  • Perspective on basic characteristics common in HFOSS communities
    • FOSSisms that capture FOSS culture and methods
  • Approaching an HFOSS community as a potential new contributor
    • Basic information for getting started
    • Understanding the community landscape and process
    • Becoming a participant:
Greg
9:15

2.2 HFOSS in the Curriculum

  • Options for getting started in courses
  • HFOSS beyond the curriculum
  • Trying to find the right size student project
  • Evaluating student work
  • Instructional style: mentoring vs. lecturing; instructor as co-learner
Heidi, Greg
10:30 Break All
10:45 2.3 Planning for HFOSS Participation
  • Small Group Discussion
    • Form groups around HFOSS projects or interests
Darci, Greg
12:00 Lunch All
1:00

2.4 Understanding POSSE Stage 3

  • Small project groups
  • Evaluation
  • POSSE community
Greg, Lori
1:45

2.5 Planning for POSSE Stage 3

  • Some experience reports from Stage 3
  • Small Group Discussion about Stage 3
    • Report back on the full group
Stoney, Robert, Lynn
3:00 Break All
3:15

2.6 Group Hands-on Work

  • Completing project set up or other task selected by each small group
All
5:30 Dinner All
7:00 Return to the hotel All
Day 3
7:45 Leave the hotel (checkout first) All
8:00 Breakfast All
8:30 3.1 HFOSS Process and Tools
  • How tools fit and support HFOSS culture
  • Upstream Adoption
    • How to get a change committed.
  • Licensing and Intellectual Property
    • FERPA considerations
Greg, Gina
9:30

3.2 Sharing HFOSS Learning Activities

Stoney, Greg
10:15 Break All
10:30 3.2 Sharing HFOSS Learning Activities - Continued
  • Identify kinds of contributions students can make
  • Brainstorming session
    • Using the template, start to create the activity whose development began in 2.3
      • Make sure to make a copy of the template for each activity
Stoney, Darci
12:00 Lunch All
12:45 3.2 Sharing HFOSS Learning Activities - Continued
  • Groups report back on work done before lunch (early 3.2)
Stoney, Darci
1:45 3.3 Stage 3 - First Steps
  • What will the group do together?
  • Plan some initial activities (faculty only or faculty and students)
  • Discuss group communication
Stoney, Darci
2:45 3.4 Going Forward
  • Evaluation form
  • Open discussion
  • Closing remarks
Greg
3:30 End - shuttles and taxi to airport All

Downloads

Here are the presentation materials for stage 2:

Pads

IRC

  • Server: irc.freenode.net
  • Channel: #foss2serve

Standard IRC clients may not work at some workshop locations due to port blockage. If you have problems, please let the team know and try one of the Web-based IRC interfaces below.

Web-based IRC Clients

Logs

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