FOSS Development 2016
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FOSS Development Course offered in Even Semester 2015-16.
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Objective of Course
- Understand technical,legal,social issues of FOSS Development
- Understand various popular models FOSS Development
- Understand detail the process of packaging of different platforms
- Contribute one of the ongoing FOSS project
Course Topics
The following topics are covered over the length of the course:
- Debian Packaging
- Moodle and It's Development
- A Basic introduction to PHP
- Open source Licenses
- Case studies on certain Free and Open Source Software
Various talks
The following talks arranged in this course:
- Hamara Linux
- The Wordpress Knowledge Exchange Group(Pune) : Saurabh Shukla
- The Big Blue Button talk
- Krishnakant Mane
Exploring different Free software projects
Each student selected a Free Software project of his/her choice and made a presentation on it after exploring it. The presentations are intended to give following information about a Free software project:
- Introduction to what the software does
- A short demo of the software's features
- History of the development
- Key individual contributors to the project
- Companies involved in the project
- Licensing Terms
- Important Websites related to the software
- Current status of development
- Future roadmap of the project
- Debates / Controversies / Issues of concern / Debates about the software
- Comparison between its corresponding proprietary software
- Various technologies used in the code development
- Commercial Adoption
- History of forks
- Businesses built around this software
- Job & business opportunities in this software
| Serial no. | Name of Free Software Project | Made by | About | Link to Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) | Vaibhav Kurhe | GIMP is a full-fledged Raster Graphics Editor | [GIMP Presentation] |
| 2 | Mozilla Firefox | Sushant Chavan | Firefox is free and open-source web browser | [Firefox Presentation] |
| 3 | Audacity | Aseema Sulakhe | Example | Audacity_ppt |
| 4 | WordPress | Harshita Shivhare | Example | WordPress |
| 5 | Drupal | Sanket Mehrotra | A quick look at Drupal | [Drupal(v0.8)] |
| 6 | LibreOffice | Vaishnavi KOlhapure | Office Suite with several applications | [LibreOffice] |
| 7 | VLC media player | Ajinkya Panaskar | VLC - A cross media player and streaming media server | [VLC] |
| 8 | Mediawiki | Abhilash Mhaisne | World's most use wiki software | [[1]] |
| 9 | Thunderbird | Abhishek Notani | An email and chat client | [Thunderbird] |
| 10 | Example | Example | Example | Example |
| 11 | Example | Example | Example | Example |
| 12 | Example | Example | Example | Example |
| 13 | Example | Example | Example | Example |
| 14 | Example | Example | Example | Example |
Slides made from "Introduction to Free Software" book
Each student chose a topic from the "Introduction to Free Software" book and made slides on that topic.
| Topic Serial No. | Topic Name | Made by | About | Link to Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | Ajinkya Panaskar | Example | [Chapter 1 - Introduction|] |
| 2 | A bit of history | Shrikrushna Kulkarni | Example | [|Chapter 2 ] |
| 3 | Legal Aspects | Abhishek Notani | Example | [Chapter 3]] |
| 4 | Developers & their motivations | Vaibhav Kurhe | Example | [Presentation |
| 5 | Economy | Aseema Sulakhe | Example | Economy |
| 6 | Free software & public administrations | Harshita Shivhare | Example | Chapter 6 |
| 7 | Free software engineering | Sanket Mehrotra | Example | [Free Software Engineering] |
| 8 | Development environments and technologies | Abhilash Mhaisne | Example | [| Development environment and technologies] |
| 9 | Case Studies | Sushant Chavan, Anurag Bhikane, Sagar Gomsale | Example | [presentation] |
| 10 | Other free resources | Rohan Manatkar | Example | [[2]] |
| 11 | Appendix | Sonam Galani , Vaishnavi Kolhapure | Example | [Appendix]} |
Moodle bugs being worked on
Pairs of students worked on bugs in Moodle.
| Serial No. | Bug No. | Bug Description | Participants | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MDL-53004 | No space between HTML divs | Anurag Bhikane, Sagar Gomsale | Open |
| 2 | MDL-53151 | Undefined variable: e in course/modlib.php on line 132 | Abhishek Notani, Ajinkya Panaskar | Open |
| 3 | MDL-52483 | Help text for Password-change URL in auth plugins settings incorrectly says it will generate button on login page | Abhishek Notani, Ajinkya Panaskar | Open |
| 4 | MDL-53823 | Expression always true | Sushant Chavan, Shrikrushna Kulkarni | Patch sent |
| 5 | MDL-53603 | Quiz with shuffled questions: manual grading pop-up shows the question number students saw during the attempt | Abhilash Mhaisne | Patch sent |
| 6 | MDL-52092 |
Log username instead of fullname() in the 'other' property of user_loggedinas event |
Sanket Mehrotra | Patch submitted |
