Dear All, It is very nice to hear from all of you. Please see the first Open Source GIS online course in Fayoum university (the course is for using GIS software. and sure I am ready to teach the course anywhere.
Your feedback is highly appreciated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIjpPgIHCts&list=PLCEKLLJsNZUkp1gdCWD7D2grqh7fYCiwb All my respect and regards On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 9:25 PM, Rafik E. Unan <ernst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Mr. Haitham, > > It's really good to see how Open Source is gradually used to inspire young > Egyptian generation to contribute to the advancement of humanity. > > If I may suggest the following topic that can be helpful to build strong > Open Source course: > > - Open Source and Free licenses and the difference between them (as an > example https://choosealicense.com/). Because what the license is what > really makes a peace of software "Open Source" or "Free" or "Proprietary". > I know is topic is overlooked in our Egyptian culture but it is the core of > what free software movement is built upon. This topic can include copy left > movement and can also cover content license like different variations of > "Creative Commons" (as an example https://creativecommons.org/choose/) > - Basic introduction Git as configuration management tool. What is > meant by "clone", "fork", merge and pull requests. I know that GitHub is > recommended as the standard repository service, but I would recommend to > use "GitLab" because it offers true model of how open source software can > be used to build a profitable business, and it has clear and open source > development process (also it offers free private repos at Gitlab.com). > - Markdown as documentation format standard. It's widely accepted > format for both GitHub and GitLab, that can be used to render README files, > Wiki entries, git commit messages and issues description. Also several > chatting application have Markdown support like Mattermost (Open Source > Slack-like chatting server that comes bundles with GitLab community > edition). > > The previous topics allow your student to do the following: > > Create new open source git repo online, add the README.md file and choose > a license for their repo. Which are the same 3 steps used to start any > great Open Source project. > > Bounty haunting programs, issue reporting and documentation contributions > are all great topics to supplement the technical topics stated above, by > working on the second most important skill any Open Source contributor > needs: Communication and Collaboration. > > > Thanks, > Rafik > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OpenEgypt" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to openegypt+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenEgypt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to openegypt+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
