An Academic Minor on Free & Open-source Software Development
First of its kind in the nation. It's an inter-discipline minor open to all fields. Non-technical fields can take Technical Writing as advanced course instead of adv. development course. The great part is that as long as the project student's interested in contains open-source elements, it can be taken into the minor and drive its direction.
Course Mechanics
Attendance taken via IRC. Has supybot taking it.
Students are required to make development blogs and write homeworks on that. Blogging tracked via WebScrapers. For me, this eventually turned into my general development blog that also tracks my project plannings, thought and resource organizers, etc. A huge load of karma for that!
Assignments "Turned-in" via Pulls to the repo of course.
Requests & patches, bugfixes as homeworks and credits.
("If students wrote an automation to take attendance for them... they deserve that credits")
OLPC
Students make / contribute to projects for XOPC that is distributed to developing countries for education uses. Some projects are vastly successful (Sky Time), they went to Whitehouse.
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