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[edit] Teaching Open Source Textbook Project
One barrier that continues to be cited by professors is the lack of a textbook that provides the necessary guidance for teaching open source development methodologies.
Therefore, we have decided to write this textbook.
[edit] Textbook Roadmap
This is Greg's roadmap for how to get this textbook written. It will certainly evolve over time. With luck, people will chip in and help! Right now, though, it's just a pile of TODOs, and that's about it.
So here is the Textbook Roadmap.
[edit] Interested Parties
- Greg DeKoenigsberg, gdk redhat com. Author. Preference: Introduction to FOSS and one other chapter. Also, cat herder.
- Max Spevack. mspevack redhat com. Author. Preference: Bugs, finding and killing them.
- Andrew Tridgell, tridge samba org. Author. Preference: Any 2 chapters.
- Dave Humphrey, David Humphrey senecac on ca. Preference: Any 2 chapters.
- Chris Tyler, chris tylers info. Author. Preference: Any 1-2 chapters.
- Clif Kussmaul, clif kussmaul org. Author. Preference: none yet.
- Philip Olson, philip php net. Author. Preference: Documentation, along with random edits.
- Ross Gardler. ross gardler oucs ox ac uk. Content provider. All materials at OSS Watch (http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/fulllist.xml) are available, presuming copyright attribution is worked out.
- Jared Smith, jsmith digium com. Editor. Also, DocBook guru.
- Mel Chua, mel redhat com. Author. Preference: Getting started in a FOSS project (or the "On Being a Beginner" subset) and one other (preferably technical) chapter. In lieu of doing the second chapter, I'd also be willing to do interviews of project participants for case studies.
- Luis Ibanez, luis dot ibanez at kitware dot com. Author. Preference: Copyright / Patents / Licensing, Community building.
[edit] Extant Texts
- Producing Open Source Software, Karl Fogel. Brilliant from the perspective of someone trying to run an open source project, but poorly structured for introducing people to open source in a classroom environment. Certainly a useful reference, though, and because the work is CC, we can lift parts of it if necessary.