Learning Resources

Benefits to Student Involvement in Open Source

Students:

• Are motivated to learn!
• Gain a professional network
• Get experience with a real, complex code base
• Understand how computing works in the real world
• Learn professional skills such as communication, collaboration and critical thinking
• Learn about open source software and culture

Open source projects:

• Gain new contributors
• Gain relationships with academia
• Expand the use of open source

Getting Started

The TeachingOpenSource community is here to help you get started supporting student participation in open source.

1. Join the mailing list - The TeachingOpenSource mailing list is the center of our community’s collaboration, and it’s where most of our discussion about Open Source educational models, support and funding schemes, community relationships, and other issues takes place.
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2. Introduce yourself - Once you’ve joined the mailing list, please send an email introducing yourself, what you do, what you are interested in, how you can help TeachingOpenSource, and how we can help you.
3. Explore existing Learning Materials <link to this>
4. Participate in events <link to events>

Learning Materials

This is a collection of learning materials and full courses <Link to learning materials.>

Resources

• Models for student learning within H/FOSS
• How to start contributing to or using Open Source Software