[TOS] Contributing to the TOS textbook

[Jonathan Loy]

Thank you Dan, Greg, and Matt for your guidance, and being very welcoming.

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Gregory Hislop <hislopg at drexel.edu> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> Thanks for sharing your Git lecture.  The group I'm working with is in the process of trying to build a more expansive version of the POSSE workshops (see a draft at http://xcitegroup.org/foss2serve/index.php/Faculty_Workshop_Planning).  We might be able to incorporate some of what you've done.
>
> Have you considered adding the link to your materials to the list of resources on TOS?  You could put it in the table here:  http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Teaching_Materials_Catalogue
>
> Cheers,
>
> Greg Hislop
> Drexel University
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tos-bounces at teachingopensource.org [mailto:tos-bounces at teachingopensource.org] On Behalf Of Dan Scott
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 10:26 AM
> To: Discussions about Teaching Open Source
> Subject: Re: [TOS] Contributing to the TOS textbook
>
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 12:36:20AM -0500, Jonathan Loy wrote:
>> Greetings TOS members,
>>
>> I am a college student currently reading the TOS textbook for my
>> software engineering class. I deeply appreciate the work everyone has
>> put into the project, and would like to also contribute by fixing
>> typos and/or updating portions of the textbook. For example I would
>> like to contribute an alternate path for Chapter 4 & 5 by using
>> distributed version control, namely git, but given enough time bazaar
>> and mercurial. Another option is to update the text to offer more
>> specific guidance for OS X, Ubuntu, and Windows users.
>
> On the git note, specifically, I recently wrote up an intro to version control & git for a talk that I gave to our comp sci students a few weeks ago. I tried to build in learning objectives and checkpoints, but it could certainly be improved. In any case, the source materials
> (Asciidoc) are linked to from
> http://coffeecode.net/archives/262-Introducing-version-control-git-in-1.5-hours-to-undergraduates.html
> and hosted on gitorious (naturally).
>
>> Unfortunately, I am unable to find any working issue tracker (it just
>> says fix me in plain text) or another public contribution avenue for
>> the textbook. I am hoping the textbook project is not dead, so if you
>> could please inform me how to properly help this project it would be
>> greatly appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read my email.
>
> I think the public contribution area is the wiki itself. Log in and edit? And the issue tracker seems to be the discussion section for each page. IIRC, much of this was written during a doc sprint a few years back. I'm not an authority on the TOS project at all; I'm just an interested (and mostly quiet) party who has slowly been trying to introduce FOSS to our students at Laurentian University through informal talks, as I'm not part of the Comp Sci faculty and not really in a position to influence the formal curriculum.
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