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Open Source Student Clubs: Abstract Only
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Open Source Student Clubs: Abstract Only

Darci Burdge, Gregory Hislop and Joanna Klukowska
Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on computer science education, pp 1070-1070
21 Feb 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3159450.3162186

Abstract

computing education extracurricular computing clubs open source software
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is interesting to many students and provides an excellent opportunity to observe and practice many aspects of software product development and management. There is an active community of faculty fostering student participation in open source within computing curricula (see http://teachingopensource.org). However, the opportunity to add coverage of FOSS varies considerably from institution to institution, and there are always limits to what can be done with existing computing curricula. One approach to solving this limitation is for students to learn about and participate in FOSS projects as an extra-curricular activity. This BoF will provide a forum for faculty members to discuss open source student clubs. The Mozilla Foundation has been developing a program to support open source clubs. The initial clubs were primarily located in Asia, but Mozilla started an effort to expand the clubs to the U.S. during the current academic year. The BoF will include discussion of this effort and materials developed by Mozilla. (See https://opensource.mozilla.community/)

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