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== Apprentice and teaching models ==
 
== Apprentice and teaching models ==

Revision as of 15:52, 23 October 2008

THIS PAGE IS A DRAFT. The title of this page is not meant to reflect any branding. It's just a place to keep notes developed from the post-panel discussions at the Teaching Open Source track of FSOSS 2008.


Apprentice and teaching models

  • How do open source projects contribute time, energy
  • Financial models
  • Bringing open source into humanities/social sciences

System Biz model vs. Practice ????

  • List of ???? that need to be written (????)
  • Hand holding to point contributors to a better (????) place
  • Application of projects to ???? (????) requires additional tasks that need work
  • Profiling of projects
  • Creation of "safe plpaces" where ????
  •  ?????

Professional incentives

  • Skills to teach OS
  • How to embed in a community
  • Offices of technical transfer
  • Tenure, research, training
  • Teach open source culture to students earlier in program
  • Adopt open source software

What can we do together going forward?

  • Academics
  • Business
  • Foundations
  • Open source communities
  • Outline who is out there doing what
  • Consortium of "us" -- people serious about growing teaching model (funding)
  • Identify 1 or 2 new places where open source can be taught
  • How do you educate government?
    • Get serious partners

Key lessons

  • Publications != open source participation
  • Develop understanding of value
  • No incentive (personal)
  • Sponsors
    • Real contribution
    • Reading of talent
  • Have open source contributors "in residence" at universities
  • Generate confidence by participating
  • Trust and validation
  • Expanding academics involved + business schools
  • How do we evaluate students?
  • How do we get involved?
  • Senior open source people mentored the professor and conveyed reputation
  • What do programs need to competent
  • Community's investment in teaching or helping teaching
  • What's the upper limit of a community/growth?
    • Godfrey
  • How do open source communities structure themselves to be open to participation and scalable?
  • Involve technical writing program
  • Colleges vs. universities == teaching vs. research