<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I am teaching RCOS (Rensselaer Center for Open Source) this semester. The course is essentially a chimera with part undergraduate research, part seminar, and part student club. Students sign up for the course and then in the first two weeks we go through an intensive project selection process of pitching, discussing, and finally selecting projects. All projects must be open source, but we encourage humanitarian choices as well. And we welcome external ("in the wild") projects along with student or instructor defined projects. Then the rest of the semester, we work with the students to help them become contributing members of the projects, to master the tools they need to be successful, and to self-learn the various technologies of the projects. It takes 2 instructors and 20 student mentors, but is a very popular offering here at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.<div><br></div><div>We are just getting started this semester so I don't know exactly what projects will be selected, but RCOS has existed since 2006 and we typically have about 150 students and 35 or so active projects. In the past, they have included projects to help conservation efforts in Africa (Elephant ID), track the RPI busses on their routes (ShuttleTracker, RPI is a cold place in the winter), allow students to plan their semester classes (YACS and QUACS, Darwinism is active on campus), pair up tutors with students (TutorBase and Instatutor), have contributed to the Open Energy Dashboard, and have worked on Open Source IBM projects along with hundreds of others.</div><div><br></div><div>We also, assuming the campus opens back up to external visitors, like to bring in a few external speakers every semester to discuss their open source projects and interests. </div><div><br></div><div>All the Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Wes Turner</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 8:55 AM Bryan G. Behrenshausen <<a href="mailto:bbehrens@redhat.com">bbehrens@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">So great to read what everyone is doing in the fall!<br>
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At Brandeis University, I'll be teaching graduate/professional courses in open<br>
source strategy—in particular, Open Source Business Practices and Establish an<br>
Open Source Program Office—as part of the Open Source Technology Management<br>
program. Registration is actually open and ongoing right now! Please feel free<br>
to pass along the course descriptions [1] and registration form [2] to anyone<br>
who may be interested.<br>
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With best wishes for a great fall term,<br>
Bryan<br>
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<a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/gps/professional-development/micro-courses/ostm/courses.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.brandeis.edu/gps/professional-development/micro-courses/ostm/courses.html</a><br>
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[2] <a href="https://rabb-school.brandeis.edu/register/OSTMregformSept21" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rabb-school.brandeis.edu/register/OSTMregformSept21</a><br>
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On Sun, 2021-08-29 at 22:00 +0000, Heidi Ellis wrote:<br>
> Hi Folks,<br>
> <br>
> As many academic institutions have or soon will start their fall terms, <br>
> I thought it would be fun to share any classes in which students are <br>
> participating in open source. In the interest of sharing materials and <br>
> seeing what people are doing, I'll begin.<br>
> <br>
> I'm teaching a senior-level Software Engineering course. We're working <br>
> on software for the Western New England University food pantry (Bear <br>
> Necessities Market) which is part of the LibreFoodPantry community [0]. <br>
> I'm hosting the class on GitLab [1]. I will be teaching a follow-on <br>
> capstone course which will contribute to Bear Necessities Market as well <br>
> [2].<br>
> <br>
> Who else is teaching using open source?<br>
> <br>
> Heidi<br>
> <br>
> [0] <a href="https://librefoodpantry.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://librefoodpantry.org/</a><br>
> <br>
> [1] <a href="https://gitlab.com/heidijcellis/cs-490-fall-2021" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gitlab.com/heidijcellis/cs-490-fall-2021</a><br>
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> [2] <a href="https://gitlab.com/heidijcellis/cs-492" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gitlab.com/heidijcellis/cs-492</a><br>
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<b> Wesley D. Turner, Ph.D. </b>
Director of the Rensselaer Center for Open Source and Senior
Lecturer | Department of Computer Science | Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute | 110 8th Street | Troy, New York 12180-3590 |
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