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FOSS Development Course offered in Even Semester 2015-16.

==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
# [http://www.scet.ac.in/Krishnakant 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
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 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 || [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0BG1VCMcjDjUmhLeHlRa3BfMXM/view?usp=sharing| GIMP Presentation]]
|-
| 2|| Mozilla Firefox || Sushant Chavan || Firefox is free and open-source web browser || [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1NurDIsINhdVHA1b3pBYm9aSFU/view?usp=sharing| Firefox Presentation]]
|-
| 3|| Audacity || Aseema Sulakhe|| Example || [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LtpM7eTcKTxBTJMobYEi0aYd2FIL_I9GpK1FvuflR7Y/edit?usp=sharing Audacity_ppt]
|-
| 4 || WordPress || Harshita Shivhare || Example || [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1gwODTDUkkBak8tNzZVaWZ2TDA/view?usp=sharing WordPress]
|-
| 5 || Drupal || Sanket Mehrotra || A quick look at Drupal || [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B90y5xpn5cgbazMwdTY3RUJ2T2s/view?usp=sharing Drupal(v0.8)]]
|-
| 6 || LibreOffice || Vaishnavi KOlhapure || Office Suite with several applications || [[https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByLiahgpQxBRZDR2TGpqOEJlR2M/view?usp=sharing LibreOffice]]
|-
| 7 || VLC media player || Ajinkya Panaskar || VLC - A cross media player and streaming media server || [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwVk6fiAiIW3VExhZlJkZVZob0E/view?usp=sharing VLC]]
|-
| 8 || Mediawiki || Abhilash Mhaisne || World's most use wiki software || [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxoyzo1JAHpRVzd6aHNwU1liWDA/view?usp=sharing]]
|-
| 9 || Thunderbird || Abhishek Notani || An email and chat client || [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxPjP0r_9KGxeVg0Q3lod1lTdkU/view?usp=sharing 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.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Topic Serial No. !! Topic Name !! Made by !! About !! Link to Presentation
|-
| 1|| Introduction || Ajinkya Panaskar || Example || [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwVk6fiAiIW3MlVPeEZvaVVjelk/view?usp=sharing| Chapter 1 - Introduction|]]
|-
| 2|| A bit of history || Shrikrushna Kulkarni || Example || [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B88eaVLfJa6saEtOVUNwYWJMUmM/view?usp=sharing |Chapter 2 ]]
|-
| 3|| Legal Aspects || Abhishek Notani || Example || [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxPjP0r_9KGxME9UNWtWblFFRVE/view?usp=sharing| Chapter 3]]]
|-
| 4 || Developers & their motivations || Vaibhav Kurhe || Example || [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0BG1VCMcjDjVXNWTHlncFI3dG8/view?usp=sharing| Presentation]
|-
| 5 || Economy || Aseema Sulakhe || Example || [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2XJ3U-t-49SQnBlTERiNzNhMWs/view?usp=sharing Economy]
|-
| 6 || Free software & public administrations || Harshita Shivhare || Example || [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1gwODTDUkkBMUl0VjJKend4UUk/view?usp=sharing Chapter 6]
|-
| 7 || Free software engineering || Sanket Mehrotra || Example || [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B90y5xpn5cgbM1NlT0dtS3EtVjQ/view?usp=sharing Free Software Engineering]]
|-
| 8 || Development environments and technologies || Abhilash Mhaisne || Example || [[https://www.dropbox.com/s/aamwst3olv6ys6q/foss_present.odp?dl=0 | Development environment and technologies]]
|-
| 9 || Case Studies || Sushant Chavan, Anurag Bhikane, Sagar Gomsale || Example || [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1NurDIsINhdWm5GanRCOEpLQVk/view?usp=sharing| presentation]]
|-
| 10 || Other free resources || Rohan Manatkar || Example || [[https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByLiahgpQxBRZDR2TGpqOEJlR2M/view?usp=sharing]]
|-
| 11 || Appendix || Sonam Galani , Vaishnavi Kolhapure || Example || [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByLiahgpQxBRMWxBVFFNZ05oelk/view?usp=sharing Appendix]]}
|}
== Moodle bugs being worked on ==
Pairs of students worked on bugs in Moodle.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! 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
|}

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