[TOS] Finding HFOSS projects for students

[Wes Turner]

Heidi,

Nice page! I will show it to the student coordinators at RCOS this coming
semester!

Along the same lines, I am interested in exploring collaborative open
source efforts across academic institutions. For those of you who are
unfamiliar with with the Rensselaer Center for Open Source (RCOS), it is a
largely student led organization with a 12 year history of promoting open
source. Every semester, the CS department here at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute (RPI) runs a course that serves as an umbrella for students to do
independent study under RCOS. During the first 2 weeks of any given
semester the students propose, adopt, or initiate open source projects that
they then work on for the rest of the semester (and often beyond). Projects
frequently span multiple semesters and we have had some success
transitioning the projects as the founders graduate and new underclassmen
enter RCOS. The list of "active" projects for a semester can be found at
https://rcos.io/projects and past projects can be found by clicking on the
"past" button at the upper right. Note, that "past" projects in one
semester are often resurrected, so "past" does not necessarily mean "dead".

Anyway, I am interested in exploring models for us to open this up to other
institutions and to encourage cross-institution cooperation. I will put
some pointers on my TOS profile as we get closer to the Fall including the
pointer to active/recommended projects, but if anyone is interested in
exploring this type of interaction, please let me know. Some of the
questions I need to answer would be:

   1. What type of support would you need to be able to join a student led
   open source project?
   2. How would we coordinate project generation and team formation?
   3. How would we manage project governance?
   4. ...

I have some ideas on all of these, but until we actually start working
together, it is hard to know how viable they actually are.

I think there could be something fun and valuable in academic focussed open
source collaboration.

Wes Turner

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On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 9:57 PM Shobha Tyagi <tyagishobha at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Heidi I am for sure going to work with it.
> thanks,
> Shobha
>
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 3:53 AM, Becka Morgan <morganb at mail.wou.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> This is awesome!! Thank you Heidi.
>>
>> Becka
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:15 PM Heidi Ellis <heidi.ellis at wne.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> As we all know, finding appropriate HFOSS projects in which students can
>>> participate and make contributions can be difficult. I would like to
>>> bring an emerging effort to your attention:
>>>
>>> https://oviohub.com/
>>>
>>> OvioHub has the goal of facilitating collaboration between tech
>>> volunteers including students and HFOSS organizations. The OvioHub
>>> effort started late last year and so is still getting started. However
>>> the core idea of matching students/tech volunteers to projects with
>>> contacts within the projects is very helpful.
>>>
>>> Thought you all might be interested in this new site!
>>>
>>> Heidi
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>> --
>>
>>
>> Dr. Becka Morgan | she, her, hers
>> Associate Professor
>> Division of Computer Science
>> College of Liberal Arts and Sciences - Western Oregon University
>> Email: morganb at wou.edu
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