The purpose of this post is to discuss the contract, regarding peer collaboration, constructed by the professor and students of the CSC486 class. If I could sum up the contract we came up with in my own words I'd say it boiled down to 6 obligations:
1. Effective communication
2. Quality contribution
3. Organized documentation
4. Organized workflow
5. Supportive teamwork
6. Clear goals
As discussed in class, the theme of these obligations is finding the right balance between experience and product. Personally, think the emphasis in this class should be on the product, and as such I think there should be more weight on obligations 2, 3, 4 and 6. Communication and teamwork are important, but in a class of upperclassmen I think a deficiency in these areas is more easily spotted and righted than a deficiency in product. If a student has a complaint about let's say, someone in his/her team contributing too much or too little, he/she is capable of resolving the problem right then and there and should do so as he/she would in the workplace. In the case of project output, however, spotting deficiency is deceptive. How does a team know which aspects of the project need more attention? Do they know what their end product looks like and are they on the right path to achieve it? I think these questions are trickier than how to resolve teamwork issues, and more grading emphasis should be given to them and questions like them.
Sunday, January 24, 2016
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Welcome to My FOSS Blog
Welcome! The purpose of this blog is to post research and updates on FOSS (Free Open Source Software) projects that interest me or that I am contributing to. This is for a class (Software Engineering) that I am taking at Berea College, and will hopefully carry on beyond my academic career.
To kick things off - a project of interest: http://openmrs.org
OpenMRS is a technology platform for medical care in remote locations. This project is open source (of course) and well communitized, which is appealing. What's really attractive about this project, however, is the range of project possibilities. There are many options of varying difficulty which means there is something for everyone, even for a noob programmer like me. As of January 20th, 2016, there were 22 introductory projects ready to be picked up -
Hopefully by my next post I will have decided on what I am doing (probably an OpenMRS project), and that will be the topic of discussion.
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