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'''FOSS Politics Writing Activity'''
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FOSS Politics Writing Activity
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This activity helps student investigate politics within the open-source community.
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Basic knowledge of definition of Open Source
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Close reading of articles. Identifying concepts and relationships. Writing communication.
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=== Background ===
  
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Every community has politics. Understanding those politics is important work effectively within a community.  
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This activity helps student investigate politics within the open-source community.
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|'''Description''' || This activity helps student investigate politics within the open-source community.
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|'''Source''' || Edward Mirielli
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|'''Prerequisite Knowledge''' || Basic knowledge of definition of Open Source
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|'''Estimated Time to Completion''' || 2 weeks
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|'''Learning Objectives''' || Close reading of articles. Identifying concepts and relationships. Writing communication.
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|'''Materials/Environment''' || Current events articles or papers
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|'''Rights''' || [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License]
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|'''Turn In''' || Written abstract or essay
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=== Background: ===
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Every community has politics. Understanding those politics is important work effectively within a community. This activity helps student investigate politics within the open-source community.
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This is a general activity that could be appropriate for a variety of classes.
 
This is a general activity that could be appropriate for a variety of classes.
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* Ethics course
 
* Ethics course
  
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=== Directions: ===
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=== Directions ===
  
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Read articles that discuss the organizational and institutional view of FOSS, focusing on how communications in FOSS projects are organized and structured, and how FOSS projects have inherent politics.  The outcomes of this activty is the production of a summary (extended abstract) address the research methods used to study these situations - this could be modified to address more pertinent aspects about the FOSS community.
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Read articles that discuss the organizational and institutional view of FOSS, focusing on how communications in FOSS projects are organized and structured, and how FOSS projects have inherent politics.  The outcomes of this activity is the production of a summary (extended abstract) address the research methods used to study these situations - this could be modified to address more pertinent aspects about the FOSS community.
  
 
Articles that have been used in the past, include:
 
Articles that have been used in the past, include:
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* Ebert, Christof , "Open Source Drives Innovation Software", IEEE 2007 (Volume:24, Issue: 3)
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* Ebert, Christof. "Open Source Drives Innovation Software", ''IEEE Software'', Volume 24, Issue 3, 2007.
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* Morelli,Ralph.  "A global collaboration to deploy help to China" Communications of the ACM CACM,Volume 53 Issue 12, December 2010  
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* Morelli, Ralph.  "A global collaboration to deploy help to China", ''Communications of the ACM (CACM)'', Volume 53, Issue 12, December 2010.
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* Zilouchian Moghaddam, Roshanak and Twidale, Michael and Bongen, Kora. Zilouchian Moghaddam, Roshanak and Twidale, Michael and Bongen, Kora. "Open Source Interface Politics: Identity, Acceptance, Trust, and Lobbying". 2011 CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing  
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* Zilouchian Moghaddam, Roshanak and Twidale, Michael and Bongen, Kora. "Open Source Interface Politics: Identity, Acceptance, Trust, and Lobbying", ''CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing'', 2011.
  
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===Specific Tasks===
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=== Deliverables ===
  
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Written abstract or essay
  
  
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=== Assessment ===
  
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===Notes on Use===
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How will the activity be graded?
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How will learning will be measured?
  
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Typical rubrics relating to writing, completeness of argument, and process of understanding structure.  You may choose to focus on identifying research methods correctly (e.g., other steps they took to dig into the material)
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| '''The purpose of the project'''
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Typical rubrics relating to writing, completeness of argument, and process of understanding structure.  You may choose to focus on identifying research methods correctly (e.g., other steps they took to dig into the material).
  
 
Depending on your class, there may be some concerns:
 
Depending on your class, there may be some concerns:
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* Build up to larger assignment with smaller assignments.
 
* Build up to larger assignment with smaller assignments.
 
* Matching level of articles to level of students.
 
* Matching level of articles to level of students.
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2 weeks
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Current events articles or papers
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[[User:Rduvall|Robert Duvall]], [[User:Stoney.jackson|Stoney Jackson]], [[User:Jklukowska|Joanna Klukowska]], [[User:Emirielli|Edward Mirielli]]
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[[POSSE 2014-11]]
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{{License CC BY SA}}
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=== Suggestions for Open Source Community ===
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Suggestions for an open source community member who is working in conjunction with the instructor.
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[[Category:Learning Activity]]
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[[Category:Philosophy and Politics]]
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[[Category:Good Draft]]

Latest revision as of 21:01, 16 October 2018


Title

FOSS Politics Writing Activity

Overview

This activity helps student investigate politics within the open-source community.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of definition of Open Source

Learning
Objectives 		After successfully completing this activity, the learner should be able to:

Close reading of articles. Identifying concepts and relationships. Writing communication.

Process Skills
Practiced


Background

Every community has politics. Understanding those politics is important work effectively within a community. This activity helps student investigate politics within the open-source community.

This is a general activity that could be appropriate for a variety of classes.

  • Openness courses
  • Any course where you want students to understand how FOSS communities communicate/work-flow
  • Research methods course (information literacy)
  • Less programming course, like CS0
  • Writing component in a technical course
  • Ethics course

Directions

Read articles that discuss the organizational and institutional view of FOSS, focusing on how communications in FOSS projects are organized and structured, and how FOSS projects have inherent politics. The outcomes of this activity is the production of a summary (extended abstract) address the research methods used to study these situations - this could be modified to address more pertinent aspects about the FOSS community.

Articles that have been used in the past, include:

  • Ebert, Christof. "Open Source Drives Innovation Software", IEEE Software, Volume 24, Issue 3, 2007.
  • Morelli, Ralph. "A global collaboration to deploy help to China", Communications of the ACM (CACM), Volume 53, Issue 12, December 2010.
  • Zilouchian Moghaddam, Roshanak and Twidale, Michael and Bongen, Kora. "Open Source Interface Politics: Identity, Acceptance, Trust, and Lobbying", CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing, 2011.

Deliverables

Written abstract or essay


Assessment

How will the activity be graded?

How will learning will be measured?

Include sample assessment questions/rubrics.

Criteria Level 1 (fail) Level 2 (pass) Level 3 (good) Level 4 (exceptional)
The purpose of the project
Why the project is open source

Comments

Typical rubrics relating to writing, completeness of argument, and process of understanding structure. You may choose to focus on identifying research methods correctly (e.g., other steps they took to dig into the material).

Depending on your class, there may be some concerns:

  • How do you fit it into your curriculum that already has a lot of requirements?
  • How long does it take to grade them (peer review?)
  • Build up to larger assignment with smaller assignments.
  • Matching level of articles to level of students.


Additional Information

ACM BoK
Area & Unit(s)
ACM BoK
Topic(s)
Difficulty
Estimated Time
to Complete

2 weeks

Environment /
Materials

Current events articles or papers

Author(s)

Robert Duvall, Stoney Jackson, Joanna Klukowska, Edward Mirielli

Source

POSSE 2014-11

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

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Suggestions for Open Source Community

Suggestions for an open source community member who is working in conjunction with the instructor.

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