Re: [ossig] University curriculum for OSS?

["Loke KS" <lks@webpres.com.my>]

Traditionally Universities have been using to Unix to teach various
computing concepts, etc.. and open source have also originated from
universities eg. research work is more or less opensource -- published
papers and source code is available for download. I am thinking perhaps
there is something that can taught under the OSS topic ...

> I was exposed to Open Source in University under the subject of  Operating
> Systems. We have to learn and compare how Operating Systems does their CPU
> Scheduling, Memory Management and such. We used Linux, then was red hat,
to
> demo and test out various functions.
>
> Then during final year, i was thought a small deal of Unix when i took
> TCP/IP programming. I guess you cant do much programing on a very low
level
> using expensive Visual Studio.
>
> So I think Open Source is gaining grounds in the universities but not
> directly. You have to take into account that universities do not teach a
> specific product but rather the concept of computing.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Loke KS <lks@webpres.com.my>
> To: <myoss@my-opensource.org>; <ossig@mncc.com.my>
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 12:01 PM
> Subject: [ossig] University curriculum for OSS?
>
>
> > There was some talk earlier about universities not teaching about OSS,
> etc,
> > etc... So if you were to plan a one semester subject on OSS, what topics
> > would be in? Assuming a computer science degree, some basic Unix stuff
> would
> > have been taught, eg. gcc, awk, make, etc.. also bearing in mind the
need
> to
> > balance theory and practice .. what could be taught????
> >
> > Perhaps, ..like ..
> >
> > 0. Origins of  Free Software and OSS
> > 1. Philosophy of OSS
> > 2. Legal aspects of OSS
> > 3. OSS development model
> > 4. Tools of OSS.
> >
> > Can somebody add on or elaborate ..??
> >
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