[TOS] any interest in activities to introduce FOSS projects?

Francesco Maiorana fmaioran at gmail.com
Sun Apr 28 17:41:43 UTC 2019


Some years ago I experimented, in a Database course, with MusicBrainz
https://musicbrainz.org/doc/About/Data_License
Students loved the idea (music) and it gave the possibility to dig deeper
into the topic (Database) starting from the ER schema
https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Database/Schema

Francesco

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>    1. any interest in activities to introduce FOSS projects?
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>    2. Re: any interest in activities to introduce FOSS projects?
>       (Joel Sherrill)
>    3. Re: any interest in activities to introduce FOSS projects?
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> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 12:32:09 -0400
> From: "Clif Kussmaul" <clifkussmaul at gmail.com>
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> Hi everyone,
>
> A year or so ago, I went to a library open house where students and faculty
> demoed FOSS tools like Audacity, FreeMind, Inkscape, GIMP, & WordPress.
> However, no one I talked to had participated in their project's community.
> This seems like a missed opportunity, especially for someone who uses one
> project heavily (e.g. a musician who uses MuseScore, a designer who uses
> InkScape).
>
>
>
> Thus, I'd like to develop some activities to help non-technical people
> learn
> more about a specific FOSS project, and how to access it's online resources
> and interact with the community. I plan to start with Audacity & MuseScore.
> Please let me know if you have other project suggestions, or would like to
> work together on such activities. My hope is that after the first few we
> can
> create a template to make it easier to do more.
>
>
>
> Clif
> ---
> Clif Kussmaul   <mailto:clif at kussmaul.org> clif at kussmaul.org
> <http://kussmaul.org/> http://kussmaul.org  +1-484-893-0255  EDT=GMT-5
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> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 16:22:17 -0400
> From: Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at gmail.com>
> To: Clif Kussmaul <clifkussmaul at gmail.com>
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> On Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 11:32 AM Clif Kussmaul <clifkussmaul at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > A year or so ago, I went to a library open house where students and
> > faculty demoed FOSS tools like Audacity, FreeMind, Inkscape, GIMP, &
> > WordPress. However, no one I talked to had participated in their
> project?s
> > community. This seems like a missed opportunity, especially for someone
> who
> > uses one project heavily (e.g. a musician who uses MuseScore, a designer
> > who uses InkScape).
> >
> >
> >
> > Thus, I?d like to develop some activities to help non-technical people
> > learn more about a specific FOSS project, and how to access it?s online
> > resources and interact with the community. I plan to start with Audacity
> &
> > MuseScore. Please let me know if you have other project suggestions, or
> > would like to work together on such activities. My hope is that after the
> > first few we can create a template to make it easier to do more.
> >
>
> I'm the project lead for RTEMS.org which is a free real-time operating
> system. Our users are primarily technical but we do end up with experienced
> developers a d students who have no embedded cross development experience.
>
> With that background, every open source project needs documentation to
> market the project to find these potential users, on-ramp them from
> different backgrounds and skills levels, and introduce them to the project
> resources.
>
> There also needs to be comparable documentation for on-ramping contributors
> like developers, patch submitters, documentation fixes, etc.
>
> Some of the projects you mention have been Google Summer of Code
> participants so should have some new developer focused content.
>
> Personally I like patterns. If you are looking across a set of projects
> like it sounds, define roles and what should be in place. Including a
> suggestion on organisation of it all and artifact names. This could develop
> into a standard model and that would help new users and open source
> organisations since they would have a roadmap.
>
> Remember every document should have a well-defined audience and scope.
>
> Some of the documents may be related to the business cases associated with
> using the software. A standard I work with has a business and technical
> side to ensure there business barriers to adoption are addressed.
>
> That's just random thoughts.
>
> --joel
>
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> > Clif
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> > Clif Kussmaul  clif at kussmaul.org  http://kussmaul.org  +1-484-893-0255
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> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 15:24:27 -0700
> From: Emma Irwin <emma.irwin at gmail.com>
> To: Clif Kussmaul <clifkussmaul at gmail.com>
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> Common Voice <https://voice.mozilla.org/en>is a great introduction to
> contributing (open voice dataset).  Super simple, and gives that ahaha
> moment I think inspires students dig deeper into the topic.
>
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 9:32 AM Clif Kussmaul <clifkussmaul at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > A year or so ago, I went to a library open house where students and
> > faculty demoed FOSS tools like Audacity, FreeMind, Inkscape, GIMP, &
> > WordPress. However, no one I talked to had participated in their
> project?s
> > community. This seems like a missed opportunity, especially for someone
> who
> > uses one project heavily (e.g. a musician who uses MuseScore, a designer
> > who uses InkScape).
> >
> >
> >
> > Thus, I?d like to develop some activities to help non-technical people
> > learn more about a specific FOSS project, and how to access it?s online
> > resources and interact with the community. I plan to start with Audacity
> &
> > MuseScore. Please let me know if you have other project suggestions, or
> > would like to work together on such activities. My hope is that after the
> > first few we can create a template to make it easier to do more.
> >
> >
> >
> > Clif
> > ---
> > Clif Kussmaul  clif at kussmaul.org  http://kussmaul.org  +1-484-893-0255
> > EDT=GMT-5  (he/him)
> >
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