Open Source in COE — progress
May 30th, 2005Now that the school year is almost over it is time to look back on all the open source in COE heckling. In brief, it worked. Of course, I do not think the job is done with… but there has definitely been change.
Case 1: CS 312. “Linux Systems Administration” is going to be taught in the Fall by Scott Kveton. While this was mostly just a renaming of a current course, it still is progress.
Case 2: CS 411. Rumor has it that this course is going to use the Linux Kernel instead of Nachos next year. Finally!
Case 3: Open Unix Computing Labs. Next year COE plans of having at least one Linux lab (out of three total labs) in the new Kelley Engineering Center. This too is all tentative, but I would bet it will happen.
Case 4: I was contacted by Don Heer to discuss a platform for learning for EECS. He seemed pretty fired up about the idea, and wanted me to collect more information. He asked me to research three different things, the responses are here(many people helped compile this) . Good things will come of this.
Case 5: While members of the OVP were interested in helping start an internship program for open source projects, they now insist on not responding to email. Too bad. This is still a great idea and needs to be presented to the professor who runs senior capstone projects.
Here is the progress from the beginning of the year to the end:
- Open Source and COE — part one
- Open Source and COE — part 2, The meeting
- Open Source and COE — part 3
- Open Source in COE — part 4
- Open Source in COE — part 5, The big meeting
- Open Source in COE — phase 2
This is progress.
