[TOS] FSOSS session notes

[Luis Ibanez]

Stormy,

This is great, thanks.

We have added our course to the page:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeEvents/Speakers

Bringing speakers from the Boston area sounds great.
Boston--Albany is an easy drive (~ 4 hours).

Please note that, although the class run only during the Fall
semester, we have had invited speakers outside of that time
frame as well. Therefore, if the spring works best for any of
the speakers (or for a second visit), we should keep that
option in mind too.


We have also added the link of GNOME projects
to the list of resources from which students can
select projects:
http://public.kitware.com/OpenSourceSoftwarePractice/index.php/Fall2009/Course_Project/Individual_Projects#GNOME_Projects



     Thanks


             Luis


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On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Stormy Peters <stormy.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Stormy,
>>
>> This is a great idea, and it is very much needed.
>>
>> We are currently running our "Open Source Software Practices" course
>> http://public.kitware.com/OpenSourceSoftwarePractice/index.php/Main_Page
>> at RPI (http://www.rpi.edu) and will appreciate to have a visiting speaker
>> from the GNOME project.
>>
> Cool!
>>
>> Should we simply ask our name/course  to the page:
>>
>>      http://live.gnome.org/GnomeEvents/Speakers   (?)
>
> Yes, I also forwarded your mail to the GNOME marketing list to raise
> visibility as this would be our first connection through this program.
>
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>> a) Case studies:  for example, we cover a couple of sessions
>>     on "Governance and community management". We talk
>>     about the projects that we manage (www.itk.org, www.vtk.org,
>>     www.paraview.org), but it is very useful to have other cases.
>>     We have used tele-participation in the past (if that helps)
>>     via Skype.
>>
> We can definitely find people to participate via Skype, but hopefully we
> have someone in the area. I know we have a lot of presence in the Boston
> area.
>>
>> b) Class projects:     students must work on a FOSS as part of
>>     their grade. They tend to have difficulties identifying a
>>    community that they can join, and managing to find something
>>    interesting that can be executed in about 12 weeks (with about
>>    2~4 hours of work a week).
>>
>>    Do you have a list of "low hanging fruit" in your bug tracker and
>>    or feature request list, that students could work on as part of
>>    their class project.
>
>
> We have the GNOME Love program, http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove, and a
> really strong group of mentors. Someone could come speak to you about that.
>
> We'll make this happen!
>
> Stormy
>
>