Title :
Learning Free Software Development from Real-World Experience
Author :
Martinez, J.J.M.
Author_Institution :
Univ. Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Abstract :
This paper presents a learning experience at the on-line master on free software at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). For the final course, which leads to the presentation of a master thesis, students have to set up a free software project with the aim of making its development community-driven. Instead of setting up a new project for the course I decided to join to an existing free software project. In this paper, I provide an experience report of my work with GNOME, a large free software project that I decided to join.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; public domain software; software engineering; Universitat Oberta de Catalunya; free software development learning; free software online master; large free software project; real-world experience; software project; Collaborative software; Documentation; Electrical capacitance tomography; Intelligent networks; International collaboration; Licenses; Open source software; Programming; Project management; Software tools; free software; learning; open source; software engineering;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems, 2009. INCOS '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Barcelona
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5165-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3858-7
DOI :
10.1109/INCOS.2009.9
