Editing Open Source Studio (Spring 2026) (section)

== Preparation Phase ==


=== Mar 30 (Monday): Introduction to the Course, Open Source, and the Studio Concept ===
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* Watch the [ 'Introduction to the Open Source Studio'] video. 
* Read over the syllabus (this document!) and be ready to ask questions.

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* Review class structure and plan for the quarter
* Dive in on content: what is open source? What is an open source studio?
* Start the class checklist

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* [https://gw-ospo.shinyapps.io/os-challenge/ With the folks at your table, take the 'Open Source' challenge]
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=== April 1 (Wednesday) Types of Open Source and Contributor Motivations ===

'''Before Class:'''
* First: Read the Reading Note
* Read: Chapter 1 from the book Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project by Karl Fogel 2023, 2nd ed. https://producingoss.com/en/introduction.html
* Read pages 1-6 and 19-24 the Linux Foundation's 2024 Global Spotlight survey results
* Read pages 1-10 and page 28 from: The Mozilla Archetypes. https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05MZOTS_OS_Archetypes_report_ext_scr.pdf

'''In-Class Goals'''
* Discussion of Reading Note
* Check-in on assignments and tasks

=== April 3 (Friday) ===
Prep Task 1 (the Skills and Priorities Inventory) and Class Checklist DUE, 11:59 p.m. Seattle time.


=== April 6 (Monday) History and Culture of Open Source ===
'''Before Class'''
* Start with my Reading Note as a guide to preparing
* Read as background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar
* Read for yourself from The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/download/578/499%3Finline%3D1#d9 -- just three sections: The first section, titled the same as the 10k-word essay, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", then "Necessary Preconditions for the Bazaar Style" and "The Social Context of Open-Source Software". The rest of the work is classic but optional.
* Read Yuxia Zhang, Mian Qin, Klaas-Jan Stol, Minghui Zhou, and Hui Liu. 2024. How Are Paid and Volunteer Open Source Developers Different? A Study of the Rust Project. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 195, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597503.3639197
* Read the "Capture less than you create" David Heinemeier Hansson (creater of Ruby on Rails) blog post: https://world.hey.com/dhh/capture-less-than-you-create-c30e462e

'''In Class Goals'''
* Discuss Reading Note
* Get Started with Prep Task 2

=== April 8 (Wednesday) Community Health and Governance ===

'''Before class'''
* Read the Reading Note
* Read the first two sections of Chapter 4 of Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel (Forkability and Benevolent Dictators)
* Read the biography of Guido van Rossum on Wikipedia and [https://www.theregister.com/2018/07/13/python_creator_guido_van_rossum_quits/ this article about his resignation]
* Learn about The Mozilla Foundation both via Wikipedia and their own site
* Learn about The Apache Foundation both via Wikipedia and their own site

'''In-Class Goals'''
* Discuss the Reading Note
* Continue work on Prep Task 2
* Complete Exit Ticket Reflection

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* Spotlight on: The Mozilla Foundation
* Spotlight on: The Apache Foundation
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=== April 10 (Friday) ===

Prep Task 2 (the Community Field Trip and Evaluation) DUE, 11:59 p.m. Seattle time.


=== April 13 (Monday) How does one join a new organization? ===
'''Before Class'''
#Read the Reading Note
#Read "Orienting yourself to a new project" from https://opensource.guide
#Read this research article: A. K. Turzo, S. Sultana and A. Bosu, "From First Patch to Long-Term Contributor: Evaluating Onboarding Recommendations for OSS Newcomers," in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 1303-1318, April 2025, doi: 10.1109/TSE.2025.3550881.
#Explore Red Hat via their homepage and article on Wikipedia 
#Explore Debian via their homepage and article on Wikipedia

'''In Class Goals'''
#Discuss the Reading Note
#Discuss the results of your community field trips
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'''Before Class'''

* Spotlight on: Red Hat
** https://www.redhat.com/en
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat
* Spotlight on: Debian
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian
** https://www.debian.org/


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=== April 15 (Wednesday) How do we read someone else's code? ===
Project Choice Due (before class)
Groups Announced
Prep Task 3 (Group formation) DUE, 11:59 p.m. Seattle time.


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=== April 17 (Friday) ===

Prep Task 4 (Crib sheet) DUE, 11:59 p.m. Seattle time.