[TOS] Finding HFOSS projects for students

shivananda poojara shivananda.poojara at ritindia.edu
Wed Jul 18 14:21:36 UTC 2018


Hi Wes,
Thanks for your information and blog it's nice to many project ideas.
Me ans my students will explore more about it in this semester.
Thanks

Thanks

On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, 7:34 p.m. Wes Turner, <wdturner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> Source and Senior Lecturer | Department of Computer Science | Rensselaer
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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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