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====== Facebook Open Academy ====== | ====== Facebook Open Academy ====== |
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New for the spring 2014 semester at Purdue: Computer Science juniors and seniors can enroll in a course to participate in the Facebook Open Academy. Join students from 21 other universities to learn about the world of open source software development. You choose from a set of open source projects (see below), are paired with a professional software mentor, and dig in to making a contribution. The course includes an intensive long weekend in California to work face-to-face with your teammates and mentor. | {{ :foa.png?200|}}New for the spring 2014 semester at Purdue: Computer Science juniors and seniors can enroll in a course to participate in the Facebook Open Academy. Join students from 21 other universities to learn about the world of open source software development. You choose from a set of open source projects (see below), are paired with a professional software mentor, and dig in to making a contribution. The course includes an intensive long weekend in California to work face-to-face with your teammates and mentor. |
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Here is a [[https://www.dropbox.com/s/2h1a2052046dbd2/jtk-flier.pdf|flyer]] about the course and some recent [[http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/13/facebook-partners-with-22-universities-to-give-compsci-students-academic-credit-for-open-source-projects|publicity]]. | Here is a [[https://www.dropbox.com/s/2h1a2052046dbd2/jtk-flier.pdf|flyer]] about the course and some recent [[http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/13/facebook-partners-with-22-universities-to-give-compsci-students-academic-credit-for-open-source-projects|publicity]]. |
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===== Purdue Course Schedule ===== | To participate you must be a junior or senior in CS (having completed CS 25200). Browse the set of projects below and send your rank-ordered choice of five projects to [[mailto:jtk@purdue.edu|me]]. Notification of acceptance will be sent by December 9, 2013. |
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| //Note: This course is available for Software Engineering Senior Project credit. Please see [[mailto:dunsmore@purdue.edu|Prof. Dunsmore]], if you are interested in this option.// |
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| ====== Purdue Course Schedule ====== |
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^Date^Action^ | ^Date^Action^ |
|November 20|Release of open source projects (see list below)| | |November 20|Release of open source projects (see list below)| |
|December 9|List of the students and their preferences for the projects sent to Open Academy organizers| | |December 9|Applications for course admission (including project choices) due; sent to Open Academy organizers| |
|Late December|Students are assigned to projects and are introduced to their mentors| | |Late December|Students are assigned to projects and are introduced to their mentors| |
|Late December/Early January|Students receive a 1-2 page "how to prepare to work on this project" document from mentors| | |Late December/Early January|Students receive a 1-2 page "how to prepare to work on this project" document from mentors| |
|May 9|Grades submitted/classes conclude| | |May 9|Grades submitted/classes conclude| |
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===== Available Projects ===== | ====== Projects Involving Purdue Students (Spring 2014) ====== |
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| ^Project^Student(s)^Mentor(s)^Repo^ |
| |[[https://gist.github.com/anonymous/7458828|Mozilla Firefox O/S]]|[[mailto:jimel@purdue.edu|Justin Imel]]\\ [[mailto:jtee@purdue.edu|Jun Xiang Tee]]|[[mailto:swilkes@mozilla.com|Stephany Wilkes]]\\ [[mailto:mhenretty@mozilla.com|Michael Henretty]]|[[https://github.com/orgs/Firefox-OS-OpenAcademy]]| |
| |[[https://gist.github.com/s3u/7348242|OpenStack]]|[[mailto:liu628@purdue.edu|Deen Liu]]\\ [[mailto:si1@purdue.edu|Yu Si]]|[[mailto:sallamaraju@ebay.com|Subbu Allamaraju]]|https://github.com/OpenAcademy-OpenStack/nova-simulator/tree/develop| |
| |[[http://waterbearlang.com|WaterBear]]|[[mailto:byrdc@purdue.edu|Clyde Byrd]]\\ [[mailto:hoffmant@purdue.edu|Tyler Hoffman]]|[[mailto:dethe@livingcode.org|Dethe Elza]]| |
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| ====== Available Projects ====== |
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Click on project title to see description. | Click on project title to see description. |