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=Course Objectives= | |||
# Student knows the foss ecosystem and its philosophical and technical aspects | |||
# Student is capable for leading a foss project or working with a foss project | |||
# Student knows the foss development workflow | |||
# Student is capable of designing, implementing, deploying, maintaining a FOSS based solution for the society for solving a problem | |||
Student | |||
==Theory Course== | |||
===Unit 1: Free and Open Source Software philosophy and history [4]=== | |||
FOSS definition; Free and Open Source Software; GNU project; History of GNU/Linux development; Development process of important FOSS software; Development process of various GNU/Linux distributions | |||
===Unit 2: Legal, social aspects of FOSS and parallels in other fields [4]=== | |||
1. | Various licenses including GPL, LGPL, BSD, etc; Copyleft; Patents, copyrights and trademarks; Concept of free culture with reference to Wikipedia, Creative Commons, Open Street Map; Open Movies; Open Access Journals; Open Standards; Open Hardware | ||
===Unit 3: Practical aspects of FOSS: business models [6]=== | |||
Sharing the burden; Augmenting services; Supporting Hardware Sales; Undermining a competitor; Dual licencesing; Donations; Support service; Study of examples of each type of business model | |||
===Unit 4: FOSS development process and tools [10]=== | |||
Development environments: Eclipse, Anjuta, Kdevlope, Netbeans; Version control; Bug tracking; Wiki; Mailing lists; Forums; Developer communities; IRC; Non technical issue resolution; Promotion; Communication: You are what you write, structure and content, tone, face, pitfalls, best practices; Process:Benevolent dictators, do-ocracy, consensus based democracy | |||
===Unit 5: Packaging applications [6]=== | |||
Package; Package management tools; Building a package; Packaging guidelines; Package acceptance criterion; Packaging for .deb and .rpm based distributions | |||
===Unit 6: Case studies [8]=== | |||
Following projects: Linux kernel, GNU Project, Open office, Mozilla Firefox, Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus, Silpa, LaTeX, Vlc, Mplayer, Virtualbox, MySQL, Postgresql, Sugar, Gnome, KDE, Blender, Google Chrome, Vuze, Scilab, Octave, Pidgin, Evolution, Thunderbird | |||
==Laboratory Course== | |||
===List of assignments=== | |||
* Mediawiki: Set up a mediawiki installation with configuration specified by the instructor. | |||
* Version Control: Install, configure and create a project for the course using git version control system. | |||
Note: this project will be used for all your work during the course | |||
* Forums: Install, configure a php bulletin board with access control as specified by the instructor. | |||
* Development: | |||
** Start participating in at least 1 known FOSS project | |||
** Take up a task as specified by the instructor | |||
** Test the software and report bugs to the community | |||
** Improve the software as per the specification and with quality acceptable to the community. | |||
* Packaging | |||
** Demonstrate your packaging capabilities by maitaining packages in upstream distributions | |||
* Technical capability strengthening: One of the following (in discussion with the instructor) | |||
*# System administration | |||
*# network administration | |||
*# Website maintenance & design | |||
*# Database management | |||
*# Shell scripting and intro to programming languages like python, C/C++ | |||
==Textbooks== | |||
# Introduction to Free Software, by David Megías Jiménez and David Megías Jiménez (coordinator) et.al., Published by SELF Project (http://www.selfproject.eu/en/Coursebook_Intro_Free_Software) | |||
# Free/Open Source Software: A General Introduction, by Kenneth Wong and Phet Sayo, published by International Open Source Network and United Nations Development Programme | |||
# Producing OSS (http://producingoss.com) by Karl Fogel | |||
# Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fsfs/rms-essays.pdf) | |||
==References== | |||
# The Cathedral and the Bazaar (CatB), by Eric S. Raymond Published by O'Reilly Media | |||
# GNU Project Website http://www.gnu.org | |||
# Free Technology Academy Materials http://ftacademy.org/materials | |||
# Various online resources for learning the tools |