These are the resources I'm using for my presentation at CUE 2009.
Using the open source two-way street in the classroom
- Open source participation for K-12 classes
- http://teachingopensource.org
- https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/
- http://join.fedoraproject.org
Outline of talk
- 00:00 - 00:05 - Questions & Intro - What is open source? Do you know what Linux is? What grade levels and types of schools are here?
- 00:06 - 00:12 - Open source and free culture - What is, how does it fit in to students future
- 00:13 - 00:25 - Fitting open source participation in to the classroom
- 00:26 - 00:35 - Examples and ideas
- 00:36 - 00:55 - Q&A, then close before the hour
Questions and intro
- Everyone familiar with open source? How about a Linux distro?
- I work for Red Hat, we sell free software.
- Open source is about the four freedoms for software in action:
Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program for any purpose. Freedom 1: The freedom to study and modify the program. Freedom 2: The freedom to copy the program so you can help your neighbor. Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.
Freedoms 1 and 3 require source code to be available because studying and modifying software without its source code is highly impractical.
- Free culture is about sharing, social media -- it's YouTube, it's Wikipedia, it's remixing songs and digital art
- Fedora is a remix culture, with tools and processes