[OSCTC-planning] inessential weirdnesses in open source

Tue Aug 12 14:28:11 UTC 2014

+1
I would send students to look at a site as it would provide them with cultural context to understand how to get involved in FOSS.
Heidi

From: osctc-planning-bounces at lists.openhatch.org [mailto:osctc-planning-bounces at lists.openhatch.org] On Behalf Of Shauna Gordon-McKeon
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 12:59 PM
To: Planning for Open Source Comes to Campus
Subject: Re: [OSCTC-planning] inessential weirdnesses in open source

Or a wiki would work fine:
https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_source_norms_and_jargon

Don't have the time right now to start filling it out, but hopefully we can turn this into a useful resource.

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com<mailto:shaunagm at gmail.com>> wrote:
Thanks for the link, Sumana.  These are really thought-provoking examples.

Some of them (git, IRC) are things we actively teach at Open Source Comes to Campus.  Especially with git, we try to stress that these are difficult tools and that it's entirely expected for folks to stumble and have problems with it.  With things like the licenses, or the free software vs open source debate, when it's come up at events I've been at, I try to stress that you don't really need to engage with it.

But yeah, there's a lot of cultural stuff.  Enough that it's probably worth making, like, inessentialweirdnessinopensource.com<http://inessentialweirdnessinopensource.com> or something more pithy with "these are some cultural and procedural norms.  you don't have to participate in them, but we thought we'd describe/explain them so you can choose whether or not to participate instead of just feeling overwhelmed and confused."

On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Carol Willing <willingc at willingconsulting.com<mailto:willingc at willingconsulting.com>> wrote:
Hi Sumana,

A very interesting read. I enjoyed reading the linked documents too. Thanks for passing along.

Carol

On 8/10/14, 8:22 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:

I just published a post that I think OpenHatch event planners will be

interested in, on dependency management and inessential weirdnesses in

open source. http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2014/08/10/1

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