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Meeting Notes 9 10 2014

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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.

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