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  18. <title><![CDATA[POSSE RIT 2011, Monday]]></title>
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  20. <pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
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  23. <description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s fascinating being on the teaching end of a POSSE experience. I was on the itinerary to op]]></description>
  24. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s fascinating being on the teaching end of a POSSE experience.  I was on the itinerary to open with a presentation on IP, copyright, and Open Source history this morning. Originally geared towards undergraduates, I tweaked my presentation towards an audience of educators, but since my own background in OS is still somewhat limited I included a few questions in my powerpoint that I thought were important but to which I did not have answers.  I thought that at the very least they would make good starting points for discussion with a room full of CS and related academics.  One of the questions was &#8220;How do commercial software companies make money in Open Source?&#8221;  <a href="http://people.rit.edu/~dxpeee/index.html">Dorin Patru</a>, an RIT faculty picked up on the question and brought it up again later, which brought out a detailed and fascinating response from <a href="http://blog.chris.tylers.info/" title="Chris Tyler's Blog">Chris</a>.  Chris started by saying that Open Source software projects generated a billion dollars in revenue last year.  Then answering the question directly Chris laid out five models of Open Source.  I have included a copy of Chris&#8217;s whiteboard notes that I cribbed from class.  I hope to have time to go in to a detailed explanation of the various revenue models after POSSE.  If you read this and the details are not here&#8211;ping me and I&#8217;ll get on it.</p>
  25. <p>What followed was fascinating, not the least of which because Chris seemed to be answering all questions that I have been wondering about since I became involved in Open Source.  He discussed the range and distinctions between OS licences (of which there are over a hundred approved by the <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/index.html" target="_blank">Open Source Initiative</a>)by marking out the ends and the middle of the spectrum.  </p>
  26. <p>Chris then went on to lay out the time line of events that led up to and included Open Source in far greater detail than I had previously ever seen it done.  When he was finished, he brought up the issue of CS academic programs recently having problems recruiting and retaining new students and that one explanation for this seemed to be because the current crop of new undergraduates are the first to have no experience with programmable devices, computers with command lines having disappeared nearly 20 years ago. He then went on to talk about <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/" target="_blank">raspberrypi</a>, an effort from the UK to develop an inexpensive ($25) programmable device that would bring back that ability to tinker in a computing device that inspired the current CS establishment some two and three and four decades ago.</p>
  27. <p>All in all, a fascinating day.<br />
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  66. <title><![CDATA[POSSE RIT 2011  GREETINGS]]></title>
  67. <link>https://chronicgadgetosis.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/posse-rit-2011-greetings/</link>
  68. <pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 11:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
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  71. <description><![CDATA[Just a quick hello to everyone coming to POSSE at RIT this week! Chris and I have a packed week of O]]></description>
  72. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just a quick hello to everyone coming to POSSE at RIT this week!  Chris and I have a packed week of Open Source goodness for you.   I&#8217;m looking forward to meeting you all this evening at the Lovin&#8217; Cup.  </p>
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  76. <title><![CDATA[Obama's STEM Videogame Challenge &amp; IP]]></title>
  77. <link>https://chronicgadgetosis.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/obamas-stem-videogame-challenge-ip/</link>
  78. <pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 01:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
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  81. <description><![CDATA[As a professor it&#8217;s often interesting what life throws at you in a course.  I am now in the th]]></description>
  82. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a professor it&#8217;s often interesting what life throws at you in a course.  I am now in the third week of teaching Humantarian Open Source Software course at the Rochester Institute of Technology.   Primarily a project-based course, students in this class are here largely to create or improve educational software for the <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Math4Team">Math4 Team</a> at <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/">Sugar Labs</a> for the OLPC XO Laptop or for the XO itself.   Unlike prior semesters where we had a mix of new/original projects and students jumping onto pre-existing open source projects, this trimester students were asked exclusively to either jump onto a pre-existing project or if they wanted to start from scratch to choose from a list of projects that had been specifically requested from OLPC deployment.</p>
  83. <p>Among the many differences between working in the OS community and environment and working in a traditional commercial software environment, perhaps the most fundamental, important, and complex difference is how IP is treated and managed.  Anyone who has spent time looking at a FOSS or Open Source license such as the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html">GPL</a> knows how differently IP is regarded in this setting&#8211;indeed these differences form the basis upon which the entire collaborative social model of the Open Source Community is based.</p>
  84. <p>At a glance the <a href="http://www.gamepolitics.com/2010/09/16/president-obama-announces-national-stem-video-game-challenge">Obama STEM Videogame Challenge</a> would seem to be a perfect fit for students laboring in this course, and the prizes offered by the Challenge are substantial: $25K-$50k.  Our students are working to produce educational humanitarian software for students in need.  Some Challenge categories are almost identically delineated.  In one categore the Challenge even specifies that math oriented educational software should target students in the K-4th grade range&#8211;most of our students are producing educational software to fit a 4th grade math curriculum.</p>
  85. <p>There is even an award category for students working in groups of four&#8211;which is most common sized working group in the source.</p>
  86. <p>The problem that arises, however, is that we have already asked our students to jump onto pre-existing projects.  We did this in the hope of &#8220;clearing the decks&#8221; so to speak, to in effect give the thumbs-up or down to unfinished projects that had been created by prior groups of students in the course.  In fact most of the projects originated in the course&#8217;s three prior sessions are unfinished.  For a course using a traditional copyright IP model, older projects like this would be utterly dead, unless the originators had stuck with them and ushered them to completion on their own time.  But in the OS world, this need not be the case at all.  To have any chance of success at all in the OS community a software project must be at the very least both public and well documented.  Why?  Because everyone in the community, or almost everyone, is a volunteer whose only pay is the chance to work on something they find engaging and exciting.  Proprietary secrets are neither.  All of the pre-existing projects created for this course were managed with the idea that the project might be worked on, or indeed completed, by people other than its originators.  The bar for documentation, both within and without the code itself, has been set high, and has in most cases been met.  These projects have been designed to be picked up by others&#8211;that is the Open Source way.</p>
  87. <p>But if a group of four of our students work on a pre-existing project, that was itself created by a different four students, was that software then created by a group of four students, or eight?  Suppose our students work on a new project, the concept for which was called for by a representative in the distribution field.  Does that person constitute a fifth person in the group?  Will the STEM Challenge allow entries with Open Source licenses?  If so which kinds?</p>
  88. <p>According to our schedule, my students are supposed to make their final software project decisions tomorrow and start preliminary planning this weekend.  The course&#8217;s creator, <a href="http://foss.rit.edu/staff">Professor Stephen Jacobs</a>, has written to STEM requesting clarification on these issues, but we have no idea when we will receive a response.  In the meantime the class and I now have a fascinating discussion ahead of us as to the exact nature of OS IP&#8211;with very real-world consequences&#8211;or should I say &#8220;Fabulous Prizes?!!&#8221;  I&#8217;m not sure yet, but I&#8217;ll keep you posted.</p>
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