Hi all,

Just wanted to circulate this course announcement for what we'll be teaching this Fall.

Note the section at the end where we are encouraging people working on open projects to contact us so we can direct students towards them.

Class : F 11am-1pm in South Hall 210
Lab : T 1-2pm in South Hall 202 and on Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i290m-ocpp/site/information.html

Course Description :
This course is a hands-on exploration of the theory and practice of open online collaboration. Students will engage multi-disciplinary literature about collaboration while contributing to an existing open project (such as open source software, Wikipedia, or OpenStreetMap). Readings will explore business models for open source software organizations, incentives of cooperation and organization design for open source projects. Practical work will be organized around themes of project management infrastructure, community self-governance, and engineering education through open source participation. The goal of the class is to engage students in an existing open source community while developing functionality and expertise that can be part of iSchool Masters projects, faculty-directed research, and beyond.

Prerequisites :
Programming skills are not a prerequisite, but programmers are more than welcome to join. Students will come to the first lecture with an idea of the open project they want to contribute to, and which problem they want to address. If possible, a first contact with the community active in the project should already be established.