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Courseware: HFOSS Project Evaluation
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Courseware: HFOSS Project Evaluation

Heidi J. C. Ellis, Gregory W. Hislop, Darci Burdge and ASSOC COMP MACHINERY
ITICSE'17: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2017 ACM CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION, v 128680, pp 90-91
01 Jan 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3059009.3072975

Abstract

Computer Science Computer Science, Theory & Methods Education & Educational Research Education, Scientific Disciplines Science & Technology Social Sciences Technology
Many instructors are excited by the potential learning that occurs via student participation in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) projects. However, one of the main challenges for instructors desiring to support such participation is identifying an appropriate project. There are a vast number of HFOSS projects with varying sizes, complexities, domains and community cultures. This presentation describes a guided approach to evaluating an HFOSS project for someone trying to pick a project to which they will contribute. The activity is designed with particular attention to instructors who need to identify an HFOSS project that they will use in a class. The characteristics evaluated include the pattern of contributions, pattern of commits, programming languages used, and more. This activity uses OpenMRS as a sample project to evaluate.

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