Paper Info
Title
Welcome to Makerland: a first cultural immersion into open source communities (abstract only)
Abstract
Participating in free and open source (FOSS) software communities provides students with authentic learning while supplying instructors with a wide variety of educational opportunities including coding, testing, documentation, professionalism and more. However, instructors may be unfamiliar with how FOSS communities work and therefore may be reluctant to involve students in such communities. This workshop is a subset of material used in Red Hat's Professors' Open Source Summer Experience (http://communityleadershipteam.org/posse) workshop, now in its third year of successfully providing a ramp to FOSS projects for instructors. These instructors have demonstrated success in involving their students in FOSS communities where students have contributed code, interface design, and more. Intended audience: Computing educators at the college or high school level interested in involving students in open source software projects in any capacity (testing, coding, documentation, design, project management, observational shadowing of a large-scale project, etc). The workshop may also be of interest to pre-high school computing educators and members of the open source community. No experience with open source communities or contribution is necessary.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2157136.2157341
SIGCSE
Keywords
Field
DocType
foss project,project management,foss communities work,cultural immersion,open source software project,high school level,interface design,foss community,open source community,large-scale project,open source
Computer science,Knowledge management,Pedagogy,Cognitive apprenticeship,Authentic learning,Documentation,Open source software,Multimedia,Service-learning,Interface design,Project management
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mel Chua183.66
Sebastian Dziallas2133.89
Heidi J.C. Ellis3398.91
Gregory W. Hislop415740.04
Karl Wurst542.33