[TOS] Contributing to the TOS textbook

Heidi Ellis heidijcellis at gmail.com
Sat Feb 9 15:33:37 UTC 2013


Another +1

The addition of materials to the list on TOS would be very helpful!
Heidi

> 
> 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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