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From the book:
“The goal of this book is two-fold: First, we intend to make this complex license stuff simpler. Second, the book should highlight concrete examples of license problems (so developers could easily relate to their activities).”

This is a collection of experience reports from instructors who have employed open source in their classrooms in a variety of manners. The text is free. The link is to a PDF of the book.

This is a collection of experience reports from instructors who have employed open source in their classrooms in a variety of manners. The text is free. The link is to the source of the book.

Ezequiel Bruni’s article that includes an introduction to open source as well as a discussion on the finance model of open source software.

Opensource.com article that describes the benefits for using a rendered language (not wikis) for documentation.

Opensource.com article describing how wikis can be used for FOSS project documentation.

This blog presents a step-by-step approach for contributing documentation to a project on GitHub.

This is a guide to organizing a documentation sprint from Mozilla. It contains advice and tips from people who have organized doc sprints, to help you in organizing one, too.

This page reports on the results of a PHP Documentation Sprint.

Professor von Hippel explores how user-centered innovation processes offer great advantages over the manufacturer-centric innovation development systems that have been the mainstay of commerce for hundreds of years.

Slides that accompany Marko Schütz’s book Intro to FOSS (http://teachingopensource.org/learning-material/book-intro-foss./) Text is a comprehensive overview of the business of FOSS. Chapters include FOSS application areas, Philosophy and History of FOSS, FOSS Development and Community, FOSS Business, Case Studies, FOSS Government and more.

Comprehensive overview of the business of FOSS. Chapters include FOSS application areas, Philosophy and History of FOSS, FOSS Development and Community, FOSS Business, Case Studies, FOSS Government and more. Slides for the text: http://teachingopensource.org/learning-material/slides-intro-foss/

Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms.

Free as in Freedom interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement.

The Open Source Way is a book shows how to (and how not to) engage with the community members on projects of any type by practicing the open source way. This handbook distills years of knowledge our community members have gained while running open source projects.

Producing Open Source Software is a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software. The book is released under an open copyright. You can buy it in bookstores, order copies from O’Reilly Media, or browse and download it here.

A printable “cheatsheet” of common IRC commands

Live Coding – every Wednesday 1pm Eastern.
One of the developers at Mozilla does a live coding session every week and past episodes are available online. The link for the “episode guide” is: https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchPeopleCode/comments/6bpb36/live_weekly_1pm_et_on_wednesdays_watch_a_mozilla/

For open source software, the real challenge lies ahead — taking free software to the mass market, to your grandparents, to your nieces and nephews, to your friends. If we are to be successful we need to articulate the audacious goals clearly and loudly – because that’s how the community process works best.

Free as in Freedom interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement.

11 ways to get involved in HFOSS

Full text of “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” by Eric Raymond