PSU CS 410/510 OSS
Open Source Software Development
Summer 2008 (23 June -- 13 August)
MW 0915-1135 (morning section, 410 CRN, 510 CRN )
MW 1415-1635 (afternoon section, 410 CRN, 510 CRN)
Lab: FAB 81-03 (CS Lab)
Welcome. This Wiki is dedicated to our project course in open source software development for the UNIX environment.
If you are a student, please begin by registering on this Wiki, using the passcode given to you in class. A Wiki is a collaborative web site: once you're registered, you can (and should) help maintain these pages, and use the site as a work area.
The course email list (for registered users only) is at mailto:ossclass@svcs.cs.pdx.edu . On the rare occasion that someone is hanging on IRC, they'll be at irc://irc.cat.pdx.edu:6667/oss .
Much information is available at the pages of the 2007 offering of this course.
Contact Info
- mailto:bart@cs.pdx.edu -- Bart Massey, your instructor.
- mailto:support@cat.pdx.edu -- For help with systems and software
- mailto:ossclass@svcs.cs.pdx.edu -- Course e-mail list
- irc://irc.cat.pdx.edu/ossclass -- Course IRC channel
News
- bart, 06 Aug 2008: presentations next week!
- bart, 08 Jul 2008: most projects are created and started
- bart, 23 Jun 2007: wiki up
User and Project Pages
Every developer/team should put a link in the course projects area. The pages of individual users also often have links to project pages. Instructions are available for creating project pages given that the CAT has set things up properly.
Please pick a day and time for your final presentation.
Web Resources
- http://oss.cs.pdx.edu -- PSU OSS projects.
- http://www.cat.pdx.edu -- The PSU Computer Action Team.
- /. article -- OSS HOWTO (is this the original source?)
Schedule
| W | Date | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23 June | Introduction |
| 1 | 25 June | Projects |
| 2 | 30 June | Source Code Management; GIT |
| 2 | 2 July | Legal/Ethical |
| 3 | 7 July | Makefiles |
| 3 | 9 July | Scripting; Tools |
| 4 | 14 July | Debugging |
| 4 | 16 July | Autotools |
| 5 | 21 July | TBA |
| 5 | 23 July | OSCON "Field Trip" |
| 6 | 28 July | Bart absent for Microsoft Faculty Summit Guest talk by Sarah Sharp |
| 6 | 30 July | TBA |
| 7 | 4 Aug | Class cancelled—Computer Go Tournament |
| 7 | 6 Aug | Business and Jobs |
| 8 | 11 Aug | Project Presentations |
| 8 | 13 Aug | Project Presentations |
There is also an e-mail discussion list associated with this website that you may be interested in.