Open Source management

Course Schedule

1. Thursday, September 6. P-321, 8.15 – 9.45

• Course intro – what is going to happen
• lecture: FLOSS definition, differences from proprietary models. Free Software vs Open Source vs Freeware. FSF vs OSI
• homework – some readings (Stallman vs Raymond). Blog it! (Deadline 17.09)

1. Thursday, September 6. P-321, 10.15-11.45

• lecture/demonstration: Battle for Wesnoth as our playground. Main ideas of the game, overview of the wesnoth/data directory. Creating a scenario and a campaign. WML.
• homework: installing and playing Wesnoth. Blog it! (Deadline: 17.09)

1. Monday, September 17, P-321, 8.15-9.45

• lecture: FLOSS development: environments, tools and methods. Subversion and Trac.
• homework – initial project the campaign, milestones etc (Deadline: 20.09)

1. Tuesday, September 18, P-321, 8.15-9.45

• legal framework of FLOSS. Licenses, patents etc.
• homework: case studies (Deadline: 2 weeks)

1. Thursday, September 20, P-321, 8.15-9.45

• lecture: FLOSS as business: different models
• homework: case studies (Deadline: 2 weeks)

1. Thursday, September 20, P-321, 10.15-11.45

• lecture: community building and management
• homework: readings, analysis of the Wesnoth community (based on the forum), ideastorming on better campaign building
• lab/discussion: Wesnoth campaign building

1. Friday, September 21, P-321, 13.15-16.45

• lecture: Free Culture: the wider social impact of FLOSS
• homework: readings, case studies
• lab/discussion: Wesnoth campaign building. Campaign deadline: December 10)

Independent work: playtesting the other team's campaign, blog it! (Deadline: December 20).

in January

1. Monday, January 7, P-321, 14.15-15.45

• lab/discussion: reflections on the campaign building. Demonstration of the campaign 1

1. Tuesday, January 8, P-321, 14.15-15.45

• lab/discussion: reflections on the campaign building. Demonstration of the campaign 2

Grading

Wesnoth campaign (participation in team; everyone writes a short report about his/her role and contribution) – 50% Campaign testing/review (for another team's work) - 10% Blog reviews/reflections – 20% Case studies – 20%