Open Source Software for Humanity: HW Week 11

Open Source Contribution: Phase 2
You must decide on what contribution your will make to complete Phase II of the open source project.

To demonstrate completion of this part of the assignment you should:


 * 1) Post your commitment to the forum and sign up to complete a task from the VMOSS Tasks page on Sourceforge.

Reading/Discussion Articles
In addition to continuing our discussion of VMOSS bugs and features, we will discuss these short pieces in class on Monday and Wednesday. This is a just a reading assignment. Read the article/item and be prepared to contribute to the in-class discussion.


 * Interview with Bruce Parens (4/16/08, video)
 * Lecture by Yochai Benkler on OS Econ (April 2008, video)
 * An Interview with Richard Stallman (4/15/08)
 * Bill Gates and other communists (by Richard Stallman)
 * Academia's Open Access Movement
 * The Ubuntu 8.04 Release

If you find short, interesting pieces that you think we should discuss, send me a link. I will take a look and either add it to this list or replace one of the items here.