[talk] Teaching BSD to students

George Neville-Neil gnn at neville-neil.com
Sat Oct 3 19:29:54 EDT 2015



On 2 Oct 2015, at 20:44, Brian Callahan wrote:

> A keeping everyone up to date email!
> I did a guest lecture/lab course last Friday in RPI's Open Source 
> (freshman/sophomore) course. The goal of the lab was to submit a doc 
> fix to FreeBSD or OpenBSD: 
> https://github.com/rcos/CSCI2961-01/blob/master/Labs/Lab4.Md
>
> It resulted in 2 diffs to OpenBSD and over 20 to FreeBSD.
>
> The FreeBSD Foundation wants to use it as a base to develop their own 
> stand-alone class on the topic, and I've been asked to write up a 
> paragraph or two for their next newsletter.
>
> Anyhow, it was fun and neat and different. And the kids seemed to like 
> it. This seems to be a positive, effective way to plant the seed of 
> BSD into the next generation.
>

Excellent!  The Foundation is also developing materials to share with 
various
folks intersted in teaching at all levels.  I'll post here once our 
University
level materials are on line.

Best,
George



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