[TOS] Historical approach to open-source participatory development

[Armen Zambrano Gasparnian]

Andrew nice to see you in this mailing list.

> Armen,
>

> I think it's safe to say the Linux club at Seneca and anything like it at
> Seneca or other schools didn't work nearly as well as was hoped when the
> clubs were set up.
>

> It takes a lot of motivation to do good work for free, and I guess when
> there's only a handful of people to talk to who may or may not be
> like-minded, it's not a likely success.



Andrew

I had completely forgotten about this!
You are right, student driven efforts to help others get involved is really
time consuming specially in the case of our college which is a  *commutter*
college. Generally, not too many students were really willing to stay after
school (including myself as the vice president :S) to get some type of
introduction or labs to help them get involved.

The only good fruits from that was James Boston who we helped out getting
involved but after knowing him he would have been able to do the *online
jump* to find out who was on IRC and what all was about.

Armen

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Andrew Smith <asmith15 at littlesvr.ca> wrote:

> Armen Zambrano Gasparnian a écrit :
>
>> Hello all,
>> I am working on writing a white paper for school in open source and
>> education, specifically in attempts of trying to make a class of students to
>> get involved with open-source community projects.
>>
>> I am trying to work on the historical part but I am not sure of what
>> attempts have been tried before reaching the levels of involvement that we
>> have seen in schools like Seneca College, Oregon State University and San
>> Jose State University.
>>
>> I tried to start with Google Summer of Code but then I jump immediately
>> into the mentioned schools. Is there something in between? What has been
>> tried before Google Summer of Code that has not worked that well?
>>
>> I know about the open education resources (
>> http://openeducation.blip.tv/file/1645455/) and I know that there are
>> many schools that they have taught open source tools in their classes but I
>> am more focused in the 3rd level of the taxonomy of open source in education
>> <
>> http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Taxonomy#Level_3:_Working_Within_an_Open_Source_Community>
>> (Wow! I just found out about level 4)
>>
>> Please let me know if you know of any sources.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Here are the list of questions I am approaching.
>>
>> *Historical Approach*
>> 1.What trends are relevant?
>>
>>
>> 2.What other solutions have there been?
>>
>>
>> 3.Why did those solutions not work (or why do they no longer work)?
>>
>>  Armen,
>
> I think it's safe to say the Linux club at Seneca and anything like it at
> Seneca or other schools didn't work nearly as well as was hoped when the
> clubs were set up.
>
> It takes a lot of motivation to do good work for free, and I guess when
> there's only a handful of people to talk to who may or may not be
> like-minded, it's not a likely success.
>
> Andrew
>



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// Armen Zambrano Gasparnian
// Mozilla -- 2008 Release Engineering Consultant
// Seneca -- Software Development - 4th year
// http://armenzg.blogspot.com
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