[TOS] Infrastructure Team: Can haz?

[Sabin, Mihaela]

Karsten, the idea of "remixing FLOSS technology" has a very important
 pedagogical value and impacts important curricular areas (networking, 
operating systems, security, software system architecture, software system
 applications and administration) in a coherent and relevant way. 
Any teaching materials that could assist faculty and students to learn 
about sandbox-ing will be great. Your examples below are excellent 
starting points. In a perfect world, they can become self-contained 
teaching modules that can be linked to the TOS textbook.  

> On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 11:31 PM, Karsten Wade wrote:
>
> I want to show a professor how to clone a git repo from LibreOffice and
> make it available on another host so that others can clone from my
> branch and check out the cool stuff I'm doing without it having to be
> merged back to LibreOffice.  So _today_ I can do that with
> gitorious.org, but last year-or-so I couldn't.  I would have been
> messing with httpd and stuff.
> 
> Say I want to show how easy it is to setup a yum repository for your
> packages before they get submitted to Fedora, today I can do that using
> fedorapeople.org but only if I can install the Fedora packaging and yum
> devel tools locally.  What if the professor brought a Windows or OSX
> machine?  I sure would like to boot to a Fedora spin or POSSE remix ...
> 
> What I'm saying is that I can think of a huge number of ways to remix
> FLOSS technology that might benefit from seeing how something is
> actually done rather than looking for an existing project that hosts it
> as a service or provides it as part of their FLOSS infrastructure for
> contributors.  I wouldn't summarily close the door on the idea of POSSE
> instructors being able to spin-up needed services because of the risk
> that it might make people think we are recommending they just go in a
> corner and do their own thing.
> 
> I think there will always be a new FLOSS technology that needs a quick
> example or dirty hosting for the week that is not provided somewhere
> else.  How to get that is still a bit murky, although I do see the
> Dreamhost-style as being close (I use this for my personal projects,
> for example, and it works well for that.)
> 
> - Karsten
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> name:  Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener
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