Open Source Software Engineering Education
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Experiment called Semesters of Code pairs undergraduates with well-run open source projects (OpenStack, PatternFly, Kubernetes, PowerShell, odyssey, mojaloop, mosip) as labs, requiring two mentors per team and teams of three–five students. Semester versions give ~50–70 hours of project work; a 12‑week paid internship model gives 40 hours/week and moves outcomes from thin to robust. Over two years enrollment grows 20→60 students and internship placements boost offer acceptance from about 30% to ~80%.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Open source education intro
- 3:09Software engineering crisis
- 10:38First semester at Johns Hopkins
- 14:32Pedagogy and social learning
- 18:27Scaling challenges
- 20:56Summer internship at CMU
- 25:55Global expansion to Qatar
- 28:05Why software is social
- 33:02Mentorship in open source
- 36:07Future experiments
- 39:18Q&A
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