Meeting Notes 9 10 2014

What stuff goes into Guide?

Guide helps some freshmen, or senior, faculty, or staff member, explains how Free/Open Source and Licensing.

We'll explain how Github works, and how to participate in FOSS Development, and how to own and maintain a FOSS project.

There is a difference between contributing and managing, and this guide will be about managing.

Table of Contents

• What is Open Source? Why? FOSS, Wat?
• Licensing Overview and Resources
• Case-Study: Past FOSS projects at RIT
  • Started Open - Dash
  • Opened after the fact - JPP
• How to Contribute to a FOSS Project
• How to manage a FOSS projects
• How Git Works
  • Writing proper commit messages
• How Github and other Open Code Forges Work
• FOSS Ecosystems
  • FOSS@MAGIC
  • Research Computing
  • CodeRIT
  • WiC
  • CDoT @ Seneca?
  • RCOS @ RPI?
  • OSL @ OSU?
  • Media Lab @ MIT
  • Gambit?
  • Civic.mit.edu?
  • ITP @ NYU
• Other Stuff...
• Other Stuff...
• Other Stuff...

Possible Milestones

• Each section, roughly 10 weeks
• Lit Review, roughly 1 week
• Table of Contents, Project Infrastructure, 1 week
• Publishing/Exporting, 1 week
• Peer Review, 1 week
• Editing, 1 week
• MISC
• Jekyll Themes?
  • 508 Compliant themes, would be nice.