Schedule

This class includes 8 synchronous meetings throughout the semester, held on Mondays from 6:00-8:00pm (HST) from January 11th through May 9th, 2016.

Link to Google Hangout room for this course: http://bit.ly/1TNPrKT

There are assignments such as readings, reflections, and blog posts due each week, regardless of there being a synchronous meetings. This means you'll be writing regularly and meeting every few weeks. You are also expected to read and comment on blog posts by other students in the course. The feedback you give them as peers may be as much or more valuable than what the instructor is able to provide on their own.

Below is the class schedule, including the topics we will cover, and the names of the guest speaker(s) for the week. It's entirely possible that the guests may shift based on who is available to talk story with us at the time. Because life gets in the way, and the fine folks on the Speakers page are offering time out of their busy schedules to us.

As you can see, the first few synchronous sessions will help build a foundation of your understanding of FOSS. Synchronous session dates are marked in bold.


Date Topics/Readings Speakers Assignments Due
Monday, January 11 Welcome, Why is FOSS compelling? N/A Handbook sign-off
Monday, January 18 Source Code, User Rights, Contributing to FOSS N/A Blog setup, post #1
Monday, January 25 Copyright/Copyleft, Version Control + Git N/A Blog post #2
Monday, February 1 FOSS in Education & Academia, FOSS Communities Rob Davey, Karthik Ram FOSS Contributorship proposal
Monday, February 8 Open Standards, Open Infrastructure N/A Blog post #3
Monday, February 15 PRESIDENTS DAY / GNU + Linux N/A Blog post #4
Monday, February 22 The Commons, Open Pedagogy Jenny Bryan Blog post #5
Monday, February 29 FOSS and the Open Web, Open Design N/A FOSS Timeline contributions
Monday, March 7 Open Research, Working Open N/A Blog post #6
Monday, March 14 Comparing FOSS Communities Clint Lalonde, Dave Lane FOSS Contributorship check-in
Monday, March 21 SPRING BREAK N/A N/A
Monday, March 28 Open Business Models N/A Blog post #7
Monday, April 4 FOSS in Schools Paul McKimmy, Paul Ryan, Emma Irwin Blog post #8
Monday, April 11 Work on final project N/A N/A
Monday, April 18 Work on final project N/A N/A
Monday, April 25 N/A N/A Final paper
Monday, May 2 Final Presentations N/A --
Monday, May 9 Final Presentations N/A --

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