CSIS 390 Open Source Software Development

Open Source Project – Version 1.0

• You are to find an open source project and volunteer to work on it. You may work in small teams of 2 or 3 on the same project if you choose to do so and your project lends itself to that kind of collaboration. In that case, each member of the project is responsible for submitting their own deliverables.
• Deliverable 1 – Locate candidate projects - Due January 24
• Locate at least 3 Open Source projects that you are interested in participating.
1. You might want to try sourceforge.net as a starting point for your search.
2. A recent Fort Lewis graduate, Matt Brandt, works for Mozilla and is willing to help students find a project with his organization. You can contact him at mbrandt@mozilla.com. You can check the web site at this link for opportunities with Mozilla.
3. Also, Moodle is fairly extensive open source project that you might be able to help with since you are an experienced Moodle user.
• For each project, describe the following:
1. Purpose
2. Functionality
3. Development Language
4. Opportunities available for a person with your skill set. This could be Quality Assurance (testing), documentation, software development, or perhaps some unique needs for a specific project.
5. What is the process for joining the project?
6. As an alternative to submitting this information for 3 projects, you can submit items 1 -5 for just one project and proof that you have been accepted to work on that project at this time.
• Deliverable 2 – Join a project – Due January 31
• Obtain the instructor’s (Dr. Adams) approval for your project.
• Apply to join a project and get accepted to work on it.
• Submit proof that you have been accepted to work on the project and what the scope of your work will be from a supervisor on the project.
• You are required to volunteer an average of 8 hours of your time per week to the project, from the week of January 30 until the week before Final Exams. This is a total of 11 weeks, so you need to log a minimum of 88 hours of time on your project.
• Feel free to start working on the project before January 31. You can start accumulating your hours as soon as you are accepted on a project.
• If you do not submit this deliverable on its due date, you will be administratively dropped from the course.
• Deliverable 2a – Project Identification Presentation – Due January 31
• You are to deliver a 5 minute presentation to the class describing the 5 items identified in Deliverable 1 for your project.
• Also, describe what your role will be on your project and who your supervisor(s) will be.
• Make up a few powerpoint slides to guide your presentation and upload the Powerpoint slides to the Moodle link for this deliverable prior to the beginning of class.
• Weekly Deliverables – Due every Tuesday prior to the beginning of class.
• Time Recording Log – including total hours worked to date
• Weekly Summary – a one-page narrative summary of what you did that week for the project
• Work products – The documents, code, etc. that you produced this week.
• Presentations - As scheduled by the instructor to update the class on your progress.
• Final Report