Re: Teaching Open Source Follow-Up

[Shobha Tyagi <tyagishobha gmail com>]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 7:43 AM Shobha Tyagi <tyagishobha gmail com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>
> > wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 03:57 Shobha Tyagi <tyagishobha gmail com> wrote:
> > >
> > > hi sir,
> > >
> > > This is something really great. how can we make use of it?
> > >
> > > shobha
> > >
> > > Hi Shobha!
> > >
> > > Are you referring to the red hat initiative or the list of helpful
> > > technology's?
> > both but I meant we must also have some stuff in GNOME as well.
> > so that young faculty members can learn about GNOME projects around the
> > globe.
> > some faculty members are so impressive that they make their students to
> > follow.
> > I hope everybody wants get upgraded and are very much interested in
> > learning and contributing to open source projects.
> > Due to lack of guidance they quit.
> > Shobha
>
>
> Right, so at the moment, it's kind of hard to follow because we don't have
> good tooling.  Christian has talked about this before when he started GNOME
> University.  It's absolutely true that people are hungry.  But following
> GNOME is kind of hard at the moment.  For students, GNOME is hard because
> you have to learn software engineering practices that in an environment
> where most students tend to work by themselves instead of teams.
very true..

> So GNOME has to retool a little bit in order to able to scale to more
> volunteers.  That's why you see me throwing suggestions.  I think the best
> methodology is to actually get involved in QA because it doesn't require
> technical expertise, and gives you a chance to get to know the project.  It
> is a great gateway team.
>
> As for creating a curriculum, we should try to partner with the Red Hat
> program and Openhatch (https://openhatch.org/).  If you look at their front
> page, you'll see stuff like 'Find a project'.  We can advertise projects
> there as well as on our website that maps to a classroom of sorts.  For
> students and faculty things observing how we release complicated software
> would be quite educational.  GNOME has a lot to offer students and students
> in this regard.
as I have enrolled in PhD this year can I be of any help in creating
something useful
for newcomers learning;
how GNOME follow software engineering practices?

thanks
Shobha
> I plan on meeting with the Dean of Science and Head of the Computer Science
> dept at Purdue on some of these issues.  The thing is, if we do not have the
> project on a setting that can take volunteers and process them, the effort
> will be stillborn as people will get frustrated.
>
> sri
> > > Sri
> > >
> > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>
> > > wrote:
> > > > FYI - on university outreach.
> > > >
> > > > I need to put up some notes regarding GNOME love when I discussed with
> > > > Carlos.
> > > >
> > > > Also, the outcome of the extension BOF.  I managed to become a project
> > > > manager on that.
> > > >
> > > > Sri
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > > > From: Gina Likins <glikins redhat com>
> > > > Date: Thu, Aug 13, 2015, 2:08 PM
> > > > Subject: Teaching Open Source Follow-Up
> > > > To: Gina Norman Likins <glikins redhat com>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hello!
> > > >
> > > > You're receiving this email because we connected at either OSCON or the
> > > > Community Leadership Summit, and you expressed interest in learning
> > > > about
> > > > how FOSS communities can engage with university instructors.  Or it
> > > > could
> > > > be
> > > > that your card shuffled itself into the wrong stack and this doesn't
> > > > interest you at all.  But it should! :-) <cough>
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to share a few links as a next step towards connecting us all:
> > > >
> > > > 1) http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos - if you
> > > > haven't
> > > > joined the mailing list yet, go ahead and do so.  It's pretty quiet,
> > > > but
> > > > we'd like to start having these discussions there.
> > > > 2) If you'd like to find out more about those instructional materials
> > > > that
> > > > I
> > > > mentioned -- the "Learning Activities" that we hope will make it easier
> > > > for
> > > > instructors to teach open source, they're here:
> > > > http://foss2serve.org/index.php/Learning_Activities
> > > > 3) Professors' Open Source Software Experience (or POSSE) is the
> > > > intensive
> > > > workshop, sponsored by the NSF and Red Hat, for instructors who want to
> > > > teach open source.  Learn more about POSSE here:
> > > > http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE
> > > >
> > > > If you'd like to send a short introduction to the teachingopensource
> > > > list,
> > > > that would also be great (don't worry, they're quite friendly).
> > > >
> > > > Thanks again for the interest - look for next communications to come
> > > > via
> > > > the
> > > > list!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > > >
> > > > Gina
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----
> > > > Gina Likins
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> > > > Open Source and Standards
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