Conference proceeding
Welcome to Makerland: a first cultural immersion into open source communities (abstract only)
Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on computer science education, pp 659-659
29 Feb 2012
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.
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- Title
- Welcome to Makerland
- Creators
- Mel Chua - Purdue University West LafayetteSebastian Dziallas - Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringHeidi EllisGregory Hislop - Drexel UniversityKarl Wurst - Worcester State University
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on computer science education, pp 659-659
- Series
- SIGCSE '12
- Publisher
- ACM
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Other Identifier
- 991020531978204721