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== Curriculum Ideas == | == Curriculum Ideas == | ||
How do we give a rubber stamp to a curriculum? | |||
Who is it aimed at (undergraduate, postgraduate, computer science, MBA etc.)? | |||
Is it only universities? | |||
What needs to be in an accredited course for it to be of value to employers? | |||
Focus should be what modules are we making available. Allow people to make up their own curriculum or module within a curriculum. | |||
=== Course Content === | |||
Possibly two different levels of accreditation: | |||
"Book Learning" can be enough for the business minds. | |||
Practical experience through mentoring is needed for the programmers. | |||
==== Book Learning ==== | |||
These are the topics that can be taught via lectures and are suitable | |||
* Licencing | |||
* Business models | |||
** profit making | |||
** community development | |||
** Embedded open source in "traditional" business | |||
*** cost reduction | |||
*** non-differentiation | |||
* High level technical - development methodology 101 | |||
** Quality assurance theory | |||
** Process | |||
* Community engagement - why do we need to spen resources on this? | |||
* Project management and planning | |||
* Procure or develop (too localised to do in detail but we can provide a high level process) | |||
** Evaluating projects and communities | |||
* Open standards | |||
* Open source as a competitive advantage | |||
===== Resources ===== | |||
* Producing OSS | |||
* Art of Community (if it emerges artofcommunityonline.org) Jono Bacon | |||
* Open Innovaton | |||
* Understanding intellectual property in open source | |||
* Case Studies from, for example | |||
** Amazon | |||
** Google | |||
** PayPal | |||
** SMEs | |||
** Consulting | |||
*** Puppet | |||
*** Redmonk | |||
*** Moodle | |||
==== Mentoring ==== | |||
The following are required | |||
* Low level technical - programming practice | |||
** Tools to support process | |||
* Community management and development | |||
** Community establishment | |||
* Inter-project coordination | |||
* Quality assurance practice | |||
= Actions before March 1st = | |||
* Where to plant the flag and how to issue a rally call | |||
[[category:Fosdem 2009]] | [[category:Fosdem 2009]] | ||