[TOS] [Foundations] Fwd: Creation of open source curriculum, open invitation
Patrick Masson
masson at opensource.org
Mon Jul 7 12:55:53 UTC 2014
Joseph, Dave and others,
I'm happy to say that in the past few months OSI has become home to the
Free/Libre/Open Works Syllabus (FLOW Syllabus) for very similar purposes
as you outline in your message (i.e. a curriculum for the purpose of
providing students with an awareness of open source culture, tools,
goals, and community).
The FLOW Syllabus is a "curated guide to the domains of community
knowledge that will help anyone involved in creating, maintaining or
deploying Free/Libre/Open Works (FLOW)". It's maintained on the OSI's
community wiki at http://osi.xwiki.com/bin/Projects/flow-syllabus
This collection was originally assembled by Joseph Potvin of The Opman
Company (jpotvin at opman.ca <mailto:jpotvin at opman.ca>) under contract last
year to a Fortune 500 client. They asked him to design and lead an
advanced course on this set of topics for their active open source
managers and developers. He suggested to make the FLOW Syllabus itself
into a maintainable community resource, and together they approached the
OSI Board with the idea.
The "about" section sums it up as follows:
* The FLOW Syllabus *IS*:
o A secondary source, a compilation of external learning assets
that our editors consider to offer the clearest, most useful
freely-available web-based information to explain or illustrate
the free/libre/open way (ethics, methods, processes, governance,
HR management, strategy, security, law or financing);
o A structured guide to learning assets that anticipates the need
to associate information, learning objectives and assessment
(both formative and summative
<http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/assessment/basics/formative-summative.html>),
but that also supports anyone's unstructured/ ad hoc/ learning.
* The FLOW Syllabus *IS NOT*:
o A primary source, except where particular concepts or methods
are briefly explained here due to lack of a suitable external
source at this time. Your further recommendations are welcome,
of course.
o A course or a curriculum in and of itself. Instead these
resources are optimized for adaptation by educators (including
self-educators) into the learning plans or curricula that they
design.
Version 2.0 of the FLOW Syllabus was completed two weeks ago, and the
OSI is now in the process of inviting participants to the OSI Management
Education Working Group (OSI-EDU-WG) to further develop and extent it.
Joseph Potvin is its founding Chair, and here's the charter:
http://osi.xwiki.com/bin/Projects/Charter-OSI-EDU-WG-2014-2015
I invite anyone on the tos at teachingopensource.org
<mailto:tos at teachingopensource.org> and
foundations at lists.freedesktop.org
<mailto:foundations at lists.freedesktop.org> who would like to explore
common interests and combined efforts to please contact Joseph
(jpotvin at opman.ca <mailto:jpotvin at opman.ca>) for more information on how
you can participate. For our part, Joseph Potvin and I have both
subscribed to the TOS list.
Looking forward to collaborating with you.
Patrick
On 07/03/2014 10:56 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My colleague Joe Ottinger sent out this call for contributions for
> something I imagine will interest many people here to the Teaching Open
> Source mailing list.
>
> This is just an FYI - if any of you would like to participate, opr make
> colleagues aware of this so that they can, please follow up on the TOS
> mailing list.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [TOS] Creation of open source curriculum, open invitation
> Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:05:54 -0400
> From: Joseph B. Ottinger <jottinge at redhat.com>
> Reply-To: Discussions about Teaching Open Source
> <tos at teachingopensource.org>
> To: tos at teachingopensource.org
>
> Hello, all.
>
>
> My name is Joseph Ottinger. I'm an engineer at Red Hat, presently tasked
> with creating a curriculum for the purpose of providing students with an
> awareness of open source culture, tools, goals, and community.
>
> We are in the beginning stages of creating an open source project around
> the creation of this curriculum, and we would like to invite any
> interested parties to participate. We are passionate around the open
> source way, and think that creating this curriculum through a visible,
> open process will allow it to serve as a model for the concepts it is
> designed to teach.
>
> We have a general table of contents already, but it's very much only an
> initial concept; consider this an invitation to please help flesh it out
> and improve it, so that we can create the highest quality material
> possible; one of our primary goals is to take this open curriculum and
> have it published as a textbook. Any suggestions are welcomed, from
> actual topical concerns to additional resources to consider.
>
>
> The (current, proposed) table of contents looks like this:
>
>
> 1) Introduction
> 2) Open Source Fundamentals (what "open source" means)
> 3) Communities (defining "community," and interacting with it)
> 4) Legal Aspects
> 5) Principles (what makes "open source" open source)
> 6) Practices and Toolchains (the processes through which open source
> projects operate)
> 7) History and Evolution
> 8) When and Why to Make Something Open Source
> 9) Open Source Cultures (discussing the mores of the different types of
> open source communities)
>
>
> Thank you.
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