[TOS] Finding HFOSS projects for students

[Wes Turner]

Great! Thanks.

Wes

On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:21 AM shivananda poojara <
shivananda.poojara at ritindia.edu> wrote:

> Hi Wes,
> Thanks for your information and blog it's nice to many project ideas.
> Me ans my students will explore more about it in this semester.
> Thanks
>
> Thanks
>
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, 7:34 p.m. Wes Turner, <wdturner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Heidi,
>>
>> Nice page! I will show it to the student coordinators at RCOS this coming
>> semester!
>>
>> Along the same lines, I am interested in exploring collaborative open
>> source efforts across academic institutions. For those of you who are
>> unfamiliar with with the Rensselaer Center for Open Source (RCOS), it is a
>> largely student led organization with a 12 year history of promoting open
>> source. Every semester, the CS department here at Rensselaer Polytechnic
>> Institute (RPI) runs a course that serves as an umbrella for students to do
>> independent study under RCOS. During the first 2 weeks of any given
>> semester the students propose, adopt, or initiate open source projects that
>> they then work on for the rest of the semester (and often beyond). Projects
>> frequently span multiple semesters and we have had some success
>> transitioning the projects as the founders graduate and new underclassmen
>> enter RCOS. The list of "active" projects for a semester can be found at
>> https://rcos.io/projects and past projects can be found by clicking on
>> the "past" button at the upper right. Note, that "past" projects in one
>> semester are often resurrected, so "past" does not necessarily mean "dead".
>>
>> Anyway, I am interested in exploring models for us to open this up to
>> other institutions and to encourage cross-institution cooperation. I will
>> put some pointers on my TOS profile as we get closer to the Fall including
>> the pointer to active/recommended projects, but if anyone is interested in
>> exploring this type of interaction, please let me know. Some of the
>> questions I need to answer would be:
>>
>>    1. What type of support would you need to be able to join a student
>>    led open source project?
>>    2. How would we coordinate project generation and team formation?
>>    3. How would we manage project governance?
>>    4. ...
>>
>> I have some ideas on all of these, but until we actually start working
>> together, it is hard to know how viable they actually are.
>>
>> I think there could be something fun and valuable in academic focussed
>> open source collaboration.
>>
>> Wes Turner
>>
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>> Source and Senior Lecturer | Department of Computer Science | Rensselaer
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>>
>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 9:57 PM Shobha Tyagi <tyagishobha at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Heidi I am for sure going to work with it.
>>> thanks,
>>> Shobha
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 3:53 AM, Becka Morgan <morganb at mail.wou.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is awesome!! Thank you Heidi.
>>>>
>>>> Becka
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:15 PM Heidi Ellis <heidi.ellis at wne.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> As we all know, finding appropriate HFOSS projects in which students
>>>>> can
>>>>> participate and make contributions can be difficult. I would like to
>>>>> bring an emerging effort to your attention:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://oviohub.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> OvioHub has the goal of facilitating collaboration between tech
>>>>> volunteers including students and HFOSS organizations. The OvioHub
>>>>> effort started late last year and so is still getting started. However
>>>>> the core idea of matching students/tech volunteers to projects with
>>>>> contacts within the projects is very helpful.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thought you all might be interested in this new site!
>>>>>
>>>>> Heidi
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>>>>
>>>> Dr. Becka Morgan | she, her, hers
>>>> Associate Professor
>>>> Division of Computer Science
>>>> College of Liberal Arts and Sciences - Western Oregon University
>>>> Email: morganb at wou.edu
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