Note
Lib arts components today/tomorrow, transition to tech matters later in week.
Greetings and Introductions, survey of participants’ skill sets
History and Terminology in the Morning: What Open Source Is
What Open Source is about; intro to the Fedora project; our teaching model; learning plan for the week
Then we jump into History of IP
Stallman started copyleft notion of software copyright. MIT media Lab.
- IRC/wiki lab/blogs&planets
Distributed Collaboration Fedora Classroom. Learning IRC and collaborative text editing alongside Fedora contributors.
After lunch, we’ll be going over communication tools (IRC, Mailing Lists, etc...) and go into distributed collaboration and open source process. We’ll talk about other tools as well, wikilab, basic communication tools, blogs, planets, and others. These are basic elements of FOSS collaboration and communication.
information-hunting and question-asking strategies. Being productively lost.
Lastly we’ll talk about how to find things out on the web, and digging for answers. Where do you start, how do you find things out, and the concept of being “productively lost.”