Open Source Comes to Campus/UMD/Staff

NOTE

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

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
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
11:30 - 12 PM: History and ethics of free, open source software
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:

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