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

See the main page for this.

Concept behind the weekend

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.

More info: http://campus.openhatch.org/

NOTE

This page is a working draft of what might happen on Saturday, Feb 25, at UMD College Park.

Schedule

Detailed Saturday schedule

• 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