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First fall textbook sprint

05-Nov-10

This Monday 8 November from 1600 to 2200 UTC we’ll be having the first writing sprint for the next version of the Practical Open Source Software Exploration textbook.  Anyone interested in helping or watching should meet in #teachingopensource on irc.freenode.net (webchat interface.)  You can attend all, some, or none of the sprint. 🙂 I’ve been […]

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Useful guide’s ideas attract people to a project

25-Oct-10

One of the response’s I got to from the call for writers for the Practical Open Source Software Exploration textbook was an offer of an  excellent content source, Terry Hancock’s book Achieving Impossible Things With Free Culture and Commons-Based Enterprise.  This is a great example of a longer work that the Practical OSS Exploration textbook […]

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Looking for writers for Teaching Open Source textbook

23-Sep-10

Hey! Do you want to help us write the next version of the first textbook that teaches open source participation? We need writers, editors, reviewers, and researchers to find or create content on: Testing code in FOSS communities. Working in open communities. Different types of open source community cultures. Open communities and diversity. Licensing FOSS  […]

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Textbook released – Practical Open Source Software Exploration

01-Apr-10

After months of work and a last-weekend rush of conversion from MediaWiki to DocBook+Publican, the Teaching Open Source writing team has released version 0.8 of “Practical Open Source Software Exploration: How to Be Productively Lost the Open Source Way“.  (HTML single-page and PDF.) This week, Dr. Tim Budd at Oregon State University (and member of […]

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