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Being Productively Lost
Community Cultures
Open Communities and Diversity
Licensing the Code
Open for Business
Practicing the Open Source Way

Next semester I'll teach a software development course. Heidi's recommendat=
ion for requirements, design, and testing chapters serves well that course.=
 I would add chapters on deployment and support. Or maybe we can combine th=
e software process activities into one chapter, placed between Threats and =
Risks and Practicing the Open Source Way (which makes for a nice concluding=
 chapter).=20

My concern with the extended list of chapters is the risk of trying to do t=
oo much. We have to be careful about not diluting our focus on introducing =
'the open source way'. If this text gains popularity, the stage is set for =
other similar texts, either more advanced or more specialized. Similar to t=
he O'Reilly's 'head first' series, something like 'open source database app=
lication development' or 'open source games and simulations' and so forth.=
=20

Mihaela

-----Original Message-----
From: tos-bounces at teachingopensource.org [mailto:tos-bounces at teachingopenso=
urce.org] On Behalf Of Karsten Wade
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 9:21 PM
To: tos at teachingopensource.org
Subject: Re: [TOS] FW: textbook 0.8.1

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:24:08AM -0400, Sabin, Mihaela wrote:
> Karsten,
>=20
> I'll be happy to help with editing and maybe contribute some content. In =
two courses I'm teaching this semester I'll be taking the students the 'ope=
n source way'. This is my info:
>=20
> Mihaela Sabin (University of New Hampshire)

Mihaela:

Are you planning to use the textbook at all for those courses?

If yes or no, what's missing that you would want it to have to be useful fo=
r those courses.

Thanks - Karsten
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