- Nick Yeates
Open Source Strategist
http://community.redhat.com
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> On Apr 6, 2015, at 5:39 PM, Karsten Wade <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 04/06/2015 12:51 PM, Nick Yeates wrote:
>> Jim, Karsten,
>> 
>> We have been working on a new version of this content with a
>> slightly different approach. See building blocks of it here: 
>> https://github.com/nyeates/os-curriculum
>> 
>> Make sure to read the README. This is more about teaching
>> professors how to teach or include open source. We will curate
>> links and metadata instead of actual content. It will house example
>> lessons, projects and rubrics, which is what we have seen teachers
>> need.
> 
> Right, the POSSE textbook was an in-time response of a not-quite
> different angle of intention, but providing the material we weren't
> seeing available under an open content license at that time.
> 
>> Jim, two things: 1) Do you want to take part in our small
>> expert-feedback panel (7 prof’s for now) - directional feedback for
>> now, not specific 2) Where would you ideally like to go from here: 
>> a) to give us the content updates that you do have (added to 
>> Karsten's existing content out on Fedora space) b) wait and see
>> where the new curriculum takes us
>> 
>> I would suggest a little bit of all the above.
> 
> - From your description above it sounds as if the Practical OSS
> Exploration textbook is one of the resources that you would curate a
> link toward?

Yes, I believe you are correct. I need to swallow more of your content first, 
but I believe you are correct. We are still trying to figure out how this all 
fits together, and that advice is sound.

> Do we know what usage statistics are like for that book? Is it worth
> taking some updates for it and using it as a reference to pull ideas
> from for educators reading the Teaching Open Source Curriculum?

No idea on usage. I think it is worth keeping separate and referencing as a 
primary source.

> 
>> Karsten: Where is your source located? anywhere public or sharable?
> The wiki is really the upstream source, we used DocBook XML as an
> interim format. That said, I can't yet find the DocBook XML source but
> it should be somewhere, I'm not recalling where. I'll have to ask
> around for clues!

We are using asciidoc for now. It's loads better than xml and tags for 
something so content heavy.

> 
>> Also, am I right to assume that yours will go out of update, once 
>> this new one is live, or that it already has?
> 
> That's not clear to me, if the book is being used it sounds as if it
> might be one of your referenced works rather than supplanting it?
> Maybe you can explain a little further about e.g. sample lessons?
> 
> I'd also appreciate seeing what changes Jim has in mind, they may turn
> the material into something more useful.

You have solidified to me that it is likely to stay separate and continue to 
exist and to be referenced.

> 
> Anyway, I'll track down the XML and get it up on GitHub at least.
> 
> - - Karsten
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