[TOS] Questionnaire after an open source course

[Ivaylo Ganchev]

> Ohh... and I would love to see some identity questions asked in relation
> learner's sense of affiliation/ community / etc...

I'm not sure I understand this.

> What sort of F(L)OSS programs did students work on?

They worked on different type of projects. We suggested them some projects
at the beginning, but they were free to choose by their own a different
one.

Finaly we had
3 teams working on VLC (the video player -- bug tracking + feature dev)
1 team on Mozilla Firefox -- bug tracking
1 t GCompris -- feature dev
1 t pngcrush -- feature dev
1 t Golly -- feature dev
1 t Phymia -- (it was almost a from-scratch project)
1 t Gallery -- (sort of php-based web gallery) feature dev
2 t Boot-repair -- bug tracking and feature dev

So as you can see it was a very heterogeneous panel and we had different
results and more importantly very surprising results, but I will detail
more this in another mail.


>
> On 01/25/2012 12:21 PM, Ivaylo Ganchev wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> during the first term of this university year we pushed some of our
>> students to work on free/open source projects in order to validate a
>> course on "comprehension of programs". Actually the term is coming at
>> its
>> end and we would like to prepare a questionnaire in order to probe how
>> our
>> students felt with this course. For now there are couple of questions
>> that
>> are focused on :
>>
>> * benefice of working on existent/working project (and not on a pure
>> academic project)
>> * benefice on working on an open source project (collaboration,
>> communication, licensing etc...)
>> * skills required in order to have a decent experience on a similar
>> project (programming languages, programming tools etc...)
>> * motivation (was it stimulating to work on a FLOSS project).
>>
>> What other questions do you think would be interesting to ask students ?
>> I
>> can't figure about how to "measure" the right way this experience in
>> order
>> to produce a meaningful output.
>>
>> Best,
>> --
>> Ivaylo Ganchev
>>
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