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LibreCorps is a FOSS@MAGIC initiative connecting RIT students interested in open source to humanitarian and civic coding opportunities. Specifically, opportunities for Co-Operative Education Placements, a.k.a. Co-Ops (full-time paid internships), that are part of graduation requirements. Students were successfully placed in both technical and community positions with…
- UNICEF Innovation
- Open APS
- Night Scout
- Sugar Labs and OLPC
- And others
LibreCorps students work in two major areas on Co-Ops. The first, not surprisingly, is technology. The second is FOSS process and Community. Many NGO and civic organizations put open-licensed work in repositories without a plan to build and maintain a community of contributors around their technology. LibreCorps worked with UNICEF Innovation this past year to do just that and examples of that work can be found in this presentation and long-term roadmap to do so.
Up until now, LibreCorps runs single instance by single instance. Our three-year plan builds it into an on-going, student-driven, faculty-managed, standing FOSS consultancy program.
Here we will work to keep all of our content and documentation on the various companies and organizations we work with.
Currently we are working with the following organizations:
Below you will find a variety of tools that we are working on to help measure, evaluate, and improve our partner's use of open source software development.
TODO:
Below you'll find a handy list of reading content that informs a lot of our consulting:
- What success really looks like in open source - Nadia Eghbal @nayafia
- Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project - Karl Fogel @kfogel
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Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software - Richard Stallman
- Actually not sure about this one since I think RMS's work pushes certain types of people away from FOSS, most notably beginners.
- (video) Have It Your Way: Maximizing Drive-Thru Contributions - VM Brasseur @vmbrasseur
- The Open Organization Maturity Model - The Open Organization Ambassadors at Opensource.com
- Your step-by-step guide to more effective documentation - Lauri Apple @LappleApple
- A template for creating open source contributor guidelines - Safia Abdalla @captainsafia
- CONTRIBUTING-template.md - Nadia Eghbal @nayafia
- How we organize GitHub issues: A simple styleguide for tagging - Zach Dunn @zachdunn
- Why (some) agile teams fail - Jen Krieger @mrry550
- Setting an Open Source Strategy - Linux Foundation
- A Free Guide for Setting Your Open Source Strategy - Linux Foundation (a bit more succinct)
- 6 steps to perfecting an open source product strategy - Michael DeHann @ opensource.com
- Standard for Public Code @publiccodenet
BlockChain
VR and Data Science
BMGF