Open Source Comes to Campus/Curriculum/Sunday

Sunday

Goals

 * Students go through a real project and submit changes to a real project that has a decent chance of landing upstream.
 * Students get experience compiling a real project and reading through real bugs.

Timeline

 * 10:30 AM: Event starts, with breakfast and coffee
 * 10:30 - 11:30: Pick an open source project to work on, discussing the options and playing with a few
 * 11:30 - 12:30: First hour of hacking
 * 12:30 - 1:30: Lunch
 * 1:30 - 4:30: More hacking, with hourly check-ins
 * 4:30 - 5:00: Wrap-up and discussion of next steps

Planning

 * We should have some well-tested "How to set up a development environment" instructions for a variety of projects
 * We should have some hand-picked high-quality bugs for students to work on