Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Staff

About this page
Hi, staff! This wiki page is intended mostly as a reference for staff so that you can see, before-hand, what will happen at the Open Source Comes to Campus event at UMD.

Venue logistics
Getting in:


 * By public transit: (These directions start at Union Station in DC.) Take the Red Line train (toward Glenmont); transfer at the Fort Totten station to the Green Line train (toward Greenbelt); get off at the College Park/U of MD station. Then take the university shuttle bus that picks up university-bound passengers on the EAST side of the metrorail station.


 * By car, or for more details: See the official UMD Visitor's Guide

See the main page for this.

Concept behind the weekend
The website about these events in general explains:

A typical Open Source Comes to Campus event has two parts: a workshop where we teach you how to use the tools and lingo associated with open source software development, and a project day where you and your fellow students choose an open source software project to work on, find a bug to tackle, and (hopefully) write your first patch, make your first documentation fix, or otherwise make a contribution to open source software.


 * Sat, Feb 25 is the workshop day.
 * Sun, Feb 26 is the project day.

Schedule
Detailed Saturday schedule. We're fairly confident it will stick to this.


 * 10:00 AM: Laptop setup begins (if you are done early, you can Q&A with instructors)
 * 10:30: Brief opening ceremonies -- explain structure + goals
 * Led by Asheesh
 * 10:45 - 11: More laptop setup (if you are done early, you can Q&A with instructors)
 * 11 - 11:30 AM: Communicating as a user: finding the community and getting help
 * Led by Jessica McKellar
 * 11:30 - 12 PM: History and ethics of free, open source software
 * Led by Asheesh
 * 12 PM: Break + lunch.
 * 1 PM: Split into groups of max size 10, with 2 staff in each group. Students stay put; staff rotate between rooms.
 * 1 PM - 2 PM: Module 1 (1h)
 * 2:05 - 2:55 PM: Module 2 (50min)
 * 3:00 - 3:45 PM: Module 3 (45min)
 * 3:45 PM: Come back into the full group
 * 3:55 PM: Wrap-up: feedback, and next steps

Students rotate between the following three modules:


 * More about the command line
 * Getting, modifying, and verifying open source software
 * Project organization (bug trackers; git format-patch; github; people's roles in a project)

List of TAs

 * Venkatesh Srinivas