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 ====== Facebook Open Academy ====== ====== Facebook Open Academy ======
-===== Purdue Course Schedule =====+ 
 +{{ :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/jdzsubibnlh1yfe/jtk-flier.pdf|flier]] 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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 +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 ======
  
 ^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|
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 |May 9|Grades submitted/classes conclude| |May 9|Grades submitted/classes conclude|
  
 +====== Projects Involving Purdue Students (Spring 2014) ======
  
 +^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]]|
  
-===== Available Projects =====+====== Available Projects ======
  
 Click on project title to see description. Click on project title to see description.
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   * [[https://reviewboard.hackpad.com/UCOSPOA-Project-Description-yHVFckqbmwM|Review Board]]   * [[https://reviewboard.hackpad.com/UCOSPOA-Project-Description-yHVFckqbmwM|Review Board]]
  
-Original course flyer is [[https://www.dropbox.com/s/2h1a2052046dbd2/jtk-flier.pdf|here]]. 
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