[TOS] tos Digest, Vol 92, Issue 5

Birgit Penzenstadler Birgit.Penzenstadler at csulb.edu
Tue Sep 12 19:42:18 UTC 2017


@Gustavo,

Thank you for the article!
And congrats on the CSEET paper.

@Emily,

OpenMRS might be complex but at least they are very active. If you reduce to a specific part of the system for having your students interact with that, that may be an option.
Otherwise, if you reach out to Mozilla (Mike Hoye) or RedHat (e.g. via Gina Likins) I believe both companies do some shepherding for student courses.

Kind regards,
Birgit

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Today's Topics:

  1. Sharing my personal experience on introducing oss to students
     (Gustavo Henrique Lima Pinto)
  2. Recommended HFOSS communities? (Emily M. Lovell)
  3. Re: Recommended HFOSS communities? (Joel Sherrill)
  4. Re: Recommended HFOSS communities? (Frederick Grose)


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 11:23:06 -0300
From: Gustavo Henrique Lima Pinto <gustavohenrique.86 at gmail.com>
To: tos at teachingopensource.org
Subject: [TOS] Sharing my personal experience on introducing oss to
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Dear all,

I just came back from POSSE Italy eager to introduce open-source software
to students. And I did. I wrote an experience report about that. I hope you
enjoy.

https://medium.com/@gustavopinto/training-students-with-open-source-software-6bb114ec7db4

Thanks

Gustavo
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Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 22:41:57 +0000
From: "Emily M. Lovell" <Emily_Lovell at berea.edu>
To: "tos at teachingopensource.org" <tos at teachingopensource.org>
Subject: [TOS] Recommended HFOSS communities?
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Hi again all,

Thank you to everyone who replied to my recent e-mail about evaluating student blogs. (I?ll reply to each of your e-mails just as soon as I catch my breath!)

I?m also trying to refine my shortlist of humanitarian FOSS projects to let students select from this semester. It seems that some of the projects previously recommended by foss2serve/POSSE are no longer good options for the following reasons:

- MouseTrap<https://github.com/GNOME/mousetrap>: I don?t see much activity in the past 2 years
- OpenMRS<https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-core>: I?ve heard that this has not worked well for others, due to the complexity/scale of the project
- Ushahidi<https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web>: looks like it is no longer being developed as a FOSS project?

Communities I?m still thinking about include:

- Sahana Eden<https://github.com/sahana/eden>
- Mifos<https://github.com/openMF/community-app>
- Sugar<https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar>, possibly? I don?t see much activity here either...

I?d love to hear if there are other HFOSS communities that folks have had success with - or if you have anything encouraging or discouraging to add about the above. Any and all input welcome!

Many thanks,

      Emily


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Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 20:42:07 -0500
From: Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at gmail.com>
To: tos <tos at teachingopensource.org>
Subject: Re: [TOS] Recommended HFOSS communities?
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I'm one of the original RTEMS developers. It is a free real-time operating
system used in a lot of space and science applications. We (like OpenMRS)
have participated in both GSoC and Google Code-In multiple times. We try to
keep active project lists of multiple complexity levels. If we have a heads
up of skill range and quantity of students, we can be sure to have an
appropriate set of tasks/ideas reviewed and ready. Plus the community can
be aware of the expected students and be on point to be extra helpful.

Just to to know the expectations so we can see about meeting you halfway.

FWIW: The OpenMRS folks I have met are great. I don't know what issues
folks had working with them but approaching them with a heads up may also
improve the students' experience.

--joel
RTEMS

On Sep 9, 2017 8:29 PM, "Emily M. Lovell" <Emily_Lovell at berea.edu> wrote:

Hi again all,

Thank you to everyone who replied to my recent e-mail about evaluating
student blogs. (I?ll reply to each of your e-mails just as soon as I catch
my breath!)

I?m also trying to refine my shortlist of humanitarian FOSS projects to
let students select from this semester. It seems that some of the projects
previously recommended by foss2serve/POSSE are no longer good options for
the following reasons:

- MouseTrap <https://github.com/GNOME/mousetrap>: I don?t see much
activity in the past 2 years
- OpenMRS <https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-core>: I?ve heard that this
has not worked well for others, due to the complexity/scale of the project
- Ushahidi <https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web>: looks like it is
no longer being developed as a FOSS project?

Communities I?m still thinking about include:

- Sahana Eden <https://github.com/sahana/eden>
- Mifos <https://github.com/openMF/community-app>
- Sugar <https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar>, possibly? I don?t see much
activity here either...

I?d love to hear if there are other HFOSS communities that folks have had
success with - or if you have anything encouraging or discouraging to add
about the above. Any and all input welcome!

Many thanks,

      Emily



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Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 19:00:51 -0700
From: Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>
To: tos <tos at teachingopensource.org>
Subject: Re: [TOS] Recommended HFOSS communities?
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On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Emily M. Lovell <Emily_Lovell at berea.edu>
wrote:

Hi again all,

Thank you to everyone who replied to my recent e-mail about evaluating
student blogs. (I?ll reply to each of your e-mails just as soon as I catch
my breath!)

I?m also trying to refine my shortlist of humanitarian FOSS projects to
let students select from this semester. It seems that some of the projects
previously recommended by foss2serve/POSSE are no longer good options for
the following reasons:

- MouseTrap <https://github.com/GNOME/mousetrap>: I don?t see much
activity in the past 2 years
- OpenMRS <https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-core>: I?ve heard that this
has not worked well for others, due to the complexity/scale of the project
- Ushahidi <https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web>: looks like it is
no longer being developed as a FOSS project?

Communities I?m still thinking about include:

- Sahana Eden <https://github.com/sahana/eden>
- Mifos <https://github.com/openMF/community-app>
- Sugar <https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar>, possibly? I don?t see much
activity here either...


?See http://sugarizer.org/ for more activity.
?

I?d love to hear if there are other HFOSS communities that folks have had
success with - or if you have anything encouraging or discouraging to add
about the above. Any and all input welcome!

Many thanks,

      Emily

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