[TOS] New Course Idea

[C. Titus Brown]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 09:26:35AM -0500, Adam Miller wrote:
-> Hello all,
->     My name is Adam Miller and I'm a Fedora contributor as well as a
-> graduate student. I got a really random idea last week about a course
-> I would like to see taught at my University (Sam Houston State
-> University) and I went through my usual channels for peer review and
-> was then referred to Mel Chua and Mel was kind enough to comment as
-> well as send me the direction of teachingopensource.org and the
-> mailing list so here I am. The current draft of my idea is located
-> here: http://maxamillion.fedorapeople.org/course_idea_draft1
-> 
->     I have spoken with the Computer Science Department Chair
-> informally and was told once I get the idea refined I can "sales
-> pitch" it to him, so I am here hoping for some review (positive or
-> negative, everything is welcome). I'm just wanting to hash things out
-> and make a solid proposal so that I might actually be able to pull
-> this off as a course to have taught here to undergraduates.

Hi adam,

one comment -- I would suggest choosing an existing active project to
work on, rather than creating a new one from scratch.  Overcoming that
initial inertia and building a "real" open source community around a new
project will be quite tough.

--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu