Curriculum: Difference between revisions

(One intermediate revision by one other user not shown)

Line 1:

~~We need to focus on these 3 areas:~~

=Course Objectives=

# ~~open-source ecosystem that exist in~~ the ~~current world.~~

# Student knows the foss ecosystem and its philosophical and technical aspects

~~# To get qualitative and quantitative contributions from the student to the FOSS~~ ecosystem and ~~projects by his creative~~ and ~~innovative ideas~~

# Student is capable for leading a foss project or working with a foss project

# ~~To strengthen~~ the ~~technical capabilities~~ of the ~~student~~

# 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

FOSS ~~is not only a technical solution for a problem~~ of ~~society, It is a way~~

==Theory Course==

of ~~collaborative way~~ of ~~approaching and solving problems . A path for~~

===Unit 1: Free and Open Source Software philosophy and history [4]===

~~innovative ideas in technology and society by working together and~~

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

~~sharing knowledge.~~

~~Some~~ of ~~the topics~~ to ~~be covered:~~

===Unit 2: Legal, social aspects of FOSS and parallels in other fields [4]===

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

~~# A brief introduction to Free and Opensource software philosophy and history so far.~~ Practical aspects of FOSS: ~~making money and running busines~~

===Unit 3: Practical aspects of FOSS: business models [6]===

~~# The community based FOSS development process: The book 'Producing OSS'(http://producingoss.com/) can be~~ a ~~good reference for this. Students should be introduced to the foss ecosystem, such as~~

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

~~## Developer communities~~

~~## Mailing lists~~

~~## IRC~~

~~## Wiki~~

~~## Version control~~

~~## Bug tracking~~

~~## Non technical issue resolution~~

~~## Getting people to work in~~ ~~a project~~

~~## 'Assigning' work or getting the work done~~

~~## Legal aspects- various licenses and compatibilities and compliance~~

~~All these above areas should be introduced with the help~~ of ~~case~~

~~studies and students should work with communities to get to know the~~

~~"Producing~~ of ~~OSS"~~

~~Student should know the technical aspects of the above items too. For~~

===Unit 4: FOSS development process and tools [10]===

eg: ~~installing a version~~ control ~~system~~ and ~~its use~~, ~~Managing a wiki~~,

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

~~Running a mailing list~~, ~~Hands own experience with a bug tracking~~

~~system~~

~~A practical evaluation~~ based ~~on the involvement in a foss project will be good~~

===Unit 5: Packaging applications [6]===

Package; Package management tools; Building a package; Packaging guidelines; Package acceptance criterion; Packaging for .deb and .rpm based distributions

~~# Technical capability strengthening~~

===Unit 6: Case studies [8]===

~~## System administration~~

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

~~## network administration~~

~~## Website maintenance & design~~

~~## Database management~~

~~## Shell scripting+ intro to~~ ~~programming languages like python~~, ~~C/C++~~

~~# Exposure to the FOSS usage in society~~

~~## e-governance~~, ~~library management~~, ~~public websites~~, ~~disaster management~~

~~## language computing~~, ~~l10n~~, ~~i18n~~

At the ~~end of~~ the course, the following ~~should be~~ the ~~expectations~~

==Laboratory Course==

# ~~student know the foss ecosystem~~ and ~~its philosophical~~ and ~~technical aspects~~

===List of assignments===

# ~~Student is capable for leading a foss project or working with a foss project~~

# ~~Student know~~ the ~~foss development workflow~~

* Mediawiki: Set up a mediawiki installation with configuration specified by the instructor.

# ~~Student is capable of designing +implementing + deploying +maintaining a FOSS based solution~~ for the ~~society for solving a problem~~

* 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

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-We need to focus on these 3 areas:
+=Course Objectives=
-# open-source ecosystem that exist in the current world.
+# Student knows the foss ecosystem and its philosophical and technical aspects
-# To get qualitative and quantitative contributions from the student to the FOSS ecosystem and projects by his creative and innovative ideas
+# Student is capable for leading a foss project or working with a foss project
-# To strengthen the technical capabilities of the student
+# 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
-FOSS is not only a technical solution for a problem of society,  It is a way
+==Theory Course==
-of collaborative way of approaching and solving problems . A path for
+===Unit 1: Free and Open Source Software philosophy and history [4]===
-innovative ideas in technology and society by working together and
+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
-sharing knowledge.
-Some of the topics to be covered:
+===Unit 2: Legal, social aspects of FOSS and parallels in other fields [4]===
+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
-# A brief introduction to Free and Opensource software philosophy and history so far. Practical aspects of FOSS: making money and running busines
+===Unit 3: Practical aspects of FOSS: business models [6]===
-# The community based FOSS development process: The book 'Producing OSS'(http://producingoss.com/) can be a good reference for this. Students should be introduced to the foss ecosystem, such as
+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
-## Developer communities
-## Mailing lists
-## IRC
-## Wiki
-## Version control
-## Bug tracking
-## Non technical issue resolution
-## Getting people to work in  a project
-## 'Assigning' work or getting the work done
-## Legal aspects- various licenses and compatibilities and compliance
-All these above areas should be introduced with the help of case
-studies and students should work with communities to get to know the
-"Producing of OSS"
-Student should know the technical aspects of the above items too. For
+===Unit 4: FOSS development process and tools [10]===
-eg: installing a version control system and its use, Managing a wiki,
+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
-Running a mailing list, Hands own experience with a bug tracking
-system
-A practical evaluation based on the involvement in a foss project will be good
+===Unit 5: Packaging applications [6]===
+Package; Package management tools; Building a package; Packaging guidelines; Package acceptance criterion; Packaging for .deb and .rpm based distributions
-# Technical capability strengthening
+===Unit 6: Case studies [8]===
-## System administration
+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
-## network administration
-## Website maintenance & design
-## Database management
-## Shell scripting+ intro to  programming languages like python, C/C++
-# Exposure to the FOSS usage in society
-## e-governance, library management, public websites, disaster management
-## language computing, l10n, i18n
-At the end of the course, the following should be the expectations
+==Laboratory Course==
-# student know the foss ecosystem and its philosophical and technical aspects
+===List of assignments===
-# Student is capable for leading a foss project or working with a foss project
-# Student know the foss development workflow
+* Mediawiki: Set up a mediawiki installation with configuration specified by the instructor.
-# Student is capable of designing +implementing + deploying +maintaining a FOSS based solution for the society for solving a problem
+* 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