After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

• participate in FLOSS initiatives,
• found new FLOSS initiatives,
• use FLOSS methods in their business context.

Technical and Methodological Knowledge

After successful completion of the course, students are able to...  

• describe foundations of FLOSS processes,
• systematically design and construct FLOSS and
• reproduce chosen FLOSS software architectures.

Cognitive and Practical Skills

After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

• use techniques for quality assurance in the context of FLOSS,
• use exemplary FLOSS tools.

Social and Personal Skills

After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

• communicate within FLOSS-communities.

1. Reporting and triage of bugs and other issues
2. Decentralized version control systems; create and review pull requests
3. Build tools, shell scripts and automatic reformatting
4. Test automation and continuous integration
5. Generate documentation; verify tutorials
6. Recognice and improve ways of communications and entry barriers
7. Maintenance: releases, packaging and release notes
8. Public, inclusive and collaborative methods of FLOSS software development
9. Software architectures, architectural decisions and directory structures
10. Create RFCs/proposals/open standards

key words: Freie Software - Free Software - freiheitsgewährende Software - OSS - Linux - Elektra - CI - RFC - Open Standard - Open Data - Offene Daten - Open Everything

The VU will be completely held in distance learning:

• an online meeting every week with: short keynotes, recapitulations, discussions, votings, station learning, group work etc.
• asyncron lecture videos or reading texts
• 4 homeworks
• 3 teamworks
• one project: found your own FLOSS initiative
• written report using scientific literature about FLOSS
• presentation
• reviews of pull-requests and written reports
• TUWEL as fixed channel of communication

The preliminary talk is on Wednesday 6.10.2021 9:00 c. t. in https://bbb.libelektra.org/b/mar-2ao-0bw-rb3.

• 2h preliminary talk
• 13h teamwork
• 13h homework
• 23h for preparing and visiting lectures
• 24h project, report and presentation

= 75 hours working time (3 ECTS)

The grade is calculated by the individual assessments with the following balance:

30 %: homework
30 %: teamwork
30 %: project with report
10 %: presentation

A positive grade requires the positive assessment of all parts. Following grades will be issued: genügend (4) for more than 50%, befriedigend (3) for more than 62,5%, gut (2) for more than 75% and sehr gut (1) for more than 87,5% of the reached points in the assessments.

If the registration in TISS does not work, please write an email with your student number to markus.raab@complang.tuwien.ac.at.

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Fachliche und methodische Kenntnisse:

Es wird vorausgesetzt, dass Studierende bereits vor der Teilnahme an „Free/Libre and Open Source Software” Folgendes beschreiben können:

• Programmeigenschaften,
• Vorgehen bei herkömmlicher agiler Softwareentwicklung.

Kognitive und praktische Fertigkeiten:

Es wird vorausgesetzt, dass Studierende bereits vor der Teilnahme. . .

• Software Requirements umsetzen können.

Soziale und persönliche Kompetenzen:

Es wird vorausgesetzt, dass Studierende bereits vor der Teilnahme. . .

• Technische Inhalte präsentieren können.

Vorkenntnisse werden in folgenden Lehrveranstaltungen erworben:

• Einführung in die Programmierung 2
• Software Engineering und Projektmanagement
• Software Testing