Higher Education in the Open Source Ecosystem
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This document discusses higher education's involvement in open source software in various ways: - It provides examples of universities teaching open source software development and administration through formal courses, projects, and mentorship programs. This includes Oregon State University's Open Source Lab and academic programs. - It also discusses academic research on topics related to open source communities and how some of this research translates to practices that benefit diversity and inclusion. - Finally, it mentions additional resources for open source education including volunteer organizations like OpenHatch that help match students with open source projects and communities.
Higher Education in the Open Source Ecosystem
- 1. Higher Education in the Open Source Ecosystem Exemplary Projects & People Deborah Bryant
- 2. Goals for today’s talk ★ Share some examples of how higher education is teaching students about free and open source software in ways you may not know about – both in the traditional sense and in new (and open) ways. ★ Encourage you and / or your company to get involved with universities and help level up the open source ecosystem
- 4. Open Source Ecosystems : Vendor View Circa 2009 Missing: Higher Ed as a user, contributor, enabler and intelligence agent
- 6. “A student who worked in an IT department commented that he is glad that we use and cover some Linux and open source software because he is using it at his job and he had to learn it all by himself. ” Open Source Software in Computer Science and IT Higher Education: A Case Study Dan R. Lips and Robert S. Laramee, Portland State University
- 7. Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSL) Global resource for high impact open source projects Student to professional staff ratio 4:1 OSL’s DevOps practice refined through project hosting experience has evolved from practice to the classroom and back Computer Science and Engineering Deep collaborative culture in learning environment Open source curriculum since 2005 Multi-disciplinary doctorate work includes research on social and technical topics through cooperation with broad communities
- 8. OSU Academic Programs Mentorship program (20 students/yr) - OSUOSL; paid hands-on learning Formal Courses (40-80 students/yr) - Linux System Administration - Open Source Development Soon to be offered online, available as transfer credit to students at other universities Informal (200-300 people/yr) - Beaver Barcamp (yearly) - Devops Daycamp (yearly) - Devops Bootcamp (weekly) Student requested classes 85-90% success rate ● 3+ contributions (code, bug report or docs by week 10) ● 25%+ Women and minorities Hands-on support to overcome social and technical hurdles Course materials online, free to use
- 9. OSUOSL Provides student opportunity to gain hands on experience in software engineering and system administration and work on key community open source projects Champions on-campus events such as DevOps Bootcamp, educating and fostering interest in contributing to open source Translates deep community and technology experience into curriculum Project based learning
- 10. Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software Program’s goal is to provide a creative, intellectual and entrepreneurial outlet for students to use the open source software platforms to develop applications that solve societal problems. Students practice code review, work on projects and learn both technical and non-technical skills. Students work for credit or stipend.
- 11. Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
- 12. RIT Academic Programs RIT’s Minor has both a technical and non-technical track. The final course in the minor is an elective within the student’s major of study, where they become the classroom “expert” on Open Source and connecting with upstream projects. Traditional education
- 13. RIT Student Projects & Initiatives RIT Students don’t just study theory, they put it into practice. They contribute upstream to projects like the Linux Kernel, D-lang, Arduino, Drupal, and many other FOSS projects. Students learn to use their hacker powers for good, and work with public sector and not-for-profit partners like UNICEF, 18F, and One Laptop Per Child. RIT has run over 40 hackathons in the past 5 years. Project based learning
- 14. HFOSS at RIT Working on humanitarian free and open source software provides a real world context for students to participate in meaningful projects with concrete impact while learning software development and community skills. ● Students “fork” the course repository to participate ● Attendance is taken by bots in IRC ● Students “submit” their homework via pull-request and patch. ● Unlimited extra credit for upstream patches and hackathon participation. Project based learning
- 16. OSU Research OSU graduate research has addressed a range of subjects with a focus on the vitality of the open source software community including diversity, barriers to participating in community, inclusion of senior (as in age) developers, and corporate influence on projects such as the Linux Kernel.
- 17. OSU Research to Practice Community diversity studies include barriers to gender inclusion. OSU’s Open Source Lab’s student employees include 25% women on the team, about double the engineering student population and ten times the industry norm.
- 18. Purdue Innovation Research Doctoral Research in Open Innovation Communities Funded doctoral research project will compare new communities forming around emerging open standards (lexampe: and SDN and NVF) with existing communities which also have large industry stakeholders (i.e. OpenStack). Research will cover ● Governance ● Communications infrastructure ● Interact with standards body (NSF NIST) to inform them of research outcomes
- 19. Center for Research on Open Source Software (CROSS) University of California at Santa Cruz Emphasis on FOSS project evolution to commercialization. Projects can come from various sources and become senior, M.S., or Ph.D. projects. The best gets selected into the Incubator once the student graduates, and then released once it has a diverse open source community Influenced and inspired by the Ceph project, it was seed funded 3mm, and launched August 2015 with founding corporate sponsorship.
- 20. Communities of Interest & Volunteer Organizations
- 21. OpenHatch OpenHatch is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to matching prospective free software contributors with communities, tools, and education. It serves a unique and important role as a starting point for new community members and as their guide along the way. Community newcomers are matched with mentors from projects that pique their interest. OpenHatch maintains reference resources and channels to drop in for advice. OpenHatch also creates educational events and provides advice to others so they can too. OSI serves as Open Hatch’s fiscal agent.
- 22. OpenHatch Open Source Comes to Campus Open Source Comes to Campus is a workshop to teach the tools and culture of open source development and to help students impact real projects. Groups at 51 schools have run this event, including 13 women- in-CS organizations. O.H. identifies sponsors and helps organize the workshops.
- 23. Teaching Open Source (TOS) Teachingopensource.org is an online community of interest for professors, institutions, communities, and companies to come together and make the teaching of Open Source a global success. Launched in 2009, the site serves to gather and introduce, provide shared resources such as course content, presentations, and reference models for instructional programs.
- 24. POSSE The Professor’s Open Source Summer Experience (POSSE), which is supported by Red Hat and grants from the National Science Foundation, is designed for university instructors who want to incorporate open source community participation into their computer science courses. POSSE participants complete course prework online, attend an in-person immersive workshop, then form support groups to help each other through the coming year. It is difficult to create net-new university courses. POSSE provides a way to introduce open source within the framework of existing curricula. Working in the open source world can be a daunting proposition. POSSE gives professors -- who have limited time to learn about open source and are often unsure how to get started -- a foothold. http://redhat.com/posse
- 25. Open Source Ecosystem from a societal view (ICT)
- 26. Gaps
- 27. ✓ Making the case for open source-related curriculum ✓ Curriculum for related disciplines (business, marketing, community management) ✓ Volunteer mentors for students participating in open source projects Academic Gaps
- 28. ✓ Converting Research to Practice ✓ Thwarting marketing surveys as spoilers for supported research ✓ Last major community survey: 2010 Research Gaps
- 29. 69% Odds that you’re still tracking with this presentation by 3:30 pm. (With little statistical data on the impact of open source in education, the speaker felt compelled to throw a number in.)
- 30. RIT Open Source Minor Program Teaching Open Source POSSE Women in Open Source Award- academic prize Summer Internship Programs How does Red Hat work with higher education? And why…
- 31. Your mission: Support higher education + FOSS. Volunteer. Fund. Host. Mentor. Teach a teacher.
- 32. Thanks! Deborah Bryant Open Source and Standards Red Hat, Inc. @debbryant Education & Outreach Team Tom Callaway Gina Linkins community.redhat.com Student Hacker Bus Brazil
- 34. For further exploration Outreachy | www.outreachy.org Women in Open Source Awards | www.redhat.com/en/about/women-in-open-source Open Hatch | www.openhatch.org , POSSE | http://redhat.com/posse Oen Source Comes to Campus | www.campus.openhatch.org CROSS Center for Research in Open Source Software | https://cross.soe.ucsc.edu/CROSS/
- 35. Topical Academic Papers Open Source Software in Computer Science and IT Higher Education: A Case Study Dan R. Lips and Robert S. Laramee, Portland State University Teaching Evolution of Open-Source Projects in Software Engineering Courses Joseph Buchta, Maksym Petrenko, Denys Poshyvanyk, Václav Rajlich Department of Computer Science Wayne State University Open Source Software Development Experiences on the Students’ Resumes: Do They Count? - Insights from the Employers’ Perspectives Ju Long Texas State University-San Marco
- 36. Photo Credits OSU Research, OSUOSL | Deb Bryant Academic Gaps | "Kaligandaki ghasa" by Michał Sałaban licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 Research Gaps | Bryce Canyon, Andrew Smith, licensed under CC BY-SSA 2.0 Your mission | MI Rogue Nation, Forbes.com all rights reserved Rensselaer Center For Open Source | facebook page
- 37. An Incomplete List of Universities with Leading FOSS Programs (not included in this presentation) University of Oslo University of Madrid Universidad Rey Juan Carlos https://metricsgrimoire.github.io/ Center for Open Source Investigation at Carnegie Mellon * hat•tip
Editor's Notes
- #3: Not just teaching, but using open source as a learning platform
- #4: Examples here today are from the US,a narrower view based on the presenters direct experience. Projects reflect an institutional interest in graduating students who are highly conversant in free and open source software technology and communities, and contributes to the general health of the individual, their ability to participate in economic benefit and also acculturates them as future contributors to FOSS. Outside the US, Initiatives under way to level up entire countries based on open ICT policies consistently include strong partnerships with local universities, often government-funded as part of their economic development strategy.
- #5: This is a snapshot in time in 2009. While open source was happening on campus via engaged ands curious students and faculty use of oss tools were on the rise for ease of access and budget + using oss projects increasing as a teaching platform, industry/university partnerships were scarce.
- #8: In alphabetical order ☺
- #16: ((NSF is now primary funder of the program, focus has become more US domestic))
- #19: This doctoral research position will focus on open innovation communities, and the organizational mechanisms that make them successful (emerging and dynamic governance, and technological features that support governance). The researcher will focus on novel emerging communities that include both upstream and downstream communities and cover the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering through distribution. The researcher will focus on the differences over time between the governance of existing communities (like e.g. OpenStack, OpenShift, Fedora/fedoraproject.org) versus emerging communities that form around open standards and that include downstream organizations (such as the telecommunications space around SDN and NFV)
- #20: Notes from Karsten: Part of the goal of CROSS is to recognize that in many ways, once a PhD is granted, the students are “fired” from the University and have to abandon their research toward getting a job. CROSS provides academic, administrative, and financial support for taking a PhD project from thesis to fully realized open source project. Ceph was the model because the founder, Sage Weil, was able to support himself following his PhD work toward creating a robust open source project and start-up around the project. CROSS bridges the gap between academic research and formal external business incubators, especially where a public university might be required to only provide pre-incubator capabilities.
- #31: In addition to its good citizenship in the free and open source software ecosystem, Red Hat continuously seeks to grow its ranks with individuals with cultural fit and with job skills, techincal knowledge, and experience. Red Hat has grown in the last two years from 5,500 to, as of the end of this august, 7,900 employees.