Hi all, Of course, I should have asked this question sooner... but, it's not TOO late yet...
It is official: I'll be teaching an upper-division software engineering course next term. Naturally, I'll model it on OSD600 @ Seneca / CS490 SE @ WNE / whatever Greg and others call it at their institutions. Specifically, a course in the spirit of the work the POSSE/HFOSS groups have been doing. (It only took since 2009 for me to teach such a course...) I'd welcome a brief phone call with any faculty who have taught such a course recently (so I can make sure I've got the big pieces and some of the gotcha-details right in my mine), and also would welcome some recommendations regarding projects to reach out to as possible targets for the students. OpenMRS looks like an obvious community (as they're incredibly well organized w.r.t. onboarding and early-stage participants/contributors), but I haven't done a lot of research yet as to other places I might go. (I haven't even dug through openhatch.org yet, even though I know I should.) Many thanks, Matt PS. Unrelated, I have to decide if I should hold the cap at 20 students, or let it grow... I have... at least six more who want in. Where does the management of the course/number of students/teams overrun a faculty's ability to keep things on the rails? "Productively lost" aside, there's a real management issue with too many teams doing too many things in too short a time-frame... _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
