Harvard Open Source 2010
Brainstorming for the event
- Maxwell Dworkin, Science Center?
- Rehearsal, or force teachers to have a lesson plan
- Teachers?:
- Module Topics?:
- MUST KNOW:
- Bug reporting and tracking
- Version control for developers AND non-developers – understanding the process, unreleased software
- Teach them about open source software that they can use, not just about things they can work on *** if people want to install an open OS, give a tutorial (for CLI and GUI)
- Online resources – teach people how to answer their questions and find help
- MUST KNOW:
editing wikis
- Cool stuff:
- more about history, political stuff
- download and install the latest unreleased version of something
- what the hell is standard-in and standard-out?
- Cool stuff:
- Constraints from last time:
- not able to build on what people have done previously – different method of changing groups
- liked having different teachers all day
- breaking one hour modules into teaching section and then exercise section
- get people to know each other – altogether interaction at beginning, middle and end of day
- Choose your own adventure model:
- multiple modules going on at once, with tracts that people can follow → starts to get more into a conference model
- Scheduling: a week or two before Thanksgiving
- instead of going out to lunch, which was super expensive, get good catering
- Felice: ask around about good rooms and look into reserving them – 1 big room and a bunch of small rooms, if possible
- How to deal with the second day:
- structured time! Get people to get into groups or commit to working together on something specific the next day
- Size of event:
- room for 40, realistically 60-80
- 8-16 teachers