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CPE802 Open Source Productivity Tools
3.0 Academic Units (credits) Academic Year 2010/2011
Announcements
Meetings
Class Project:
Pre-Quiz IRC Chats:
- There will be TWO irc chats one at 10:00 am and the other at 3:00 pm.
- Both will last 30 minutes.
- The logs will be posted here.
- The quiz will be on paper and will have TWENTY (20) questions.
- They are all multiple choice with some requiring short answers
- Each question will carry 1 point making the whole quiz 20 points (and 20% of overall grade)
- The quiz is CLOSED book :-(
- 10 am IRC chat log
- 3 pm IRC chat log
June 12 2011:
a) Something interesting to read about as you continue your academic journey.
b) A pretty interesting Google logo
Check out this link - a table top Linux machine @ http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/mpx/?q=node/86
Installing Fedora on your machine:
Interesting research showing that Firefox is gaining significant usage in Europe with some countries at nearly 50%.
Course Summary
Welcome to the CPE802 wiki. This class will meet three times a week starting May 23, 2011 for 4 weeks.
This course will introduce you to the philosophy and principles of Free and Open Source Software and all the related tools and techniques. This course is not a programming class per se, but if you have programming backgrounds and/or are interested to learn about the use of open source technologies for software development, you are at the right place.
Official/backup NTU course description.
Syllabus
- Philosophy of Open Source Software (OSS) and its contribution to innovation
- History of OSS
- The Principles and Practice of Open Standards and Interoperability
- Brief introduction to pure OSS environments including Linux, XWindows, KDE, Gnome
- Mixing OSS environments with proprietary OSes(cygwin and xwindows under Microsoft Windows)
- Virtualization
- The Magic of Live CDs
- OSS Office productivity tools (OpenOffice, AbiWord, KOffice, Tex, LaTex, Lyx, Scribus), including spreadsheet, word processor, presentation, advanced drawing tools, and database connectivity for creating self-updating reports and graphs
- OSS Web browsers (Mozilla Firefox)
- OSS Mail client (Mozilla Thunderbird)
- OSS Languages/Frameworks (LAMP, Ruby, Perl, PHP)
- OSS Database manipulation (MySQL, Postgres)
- OSS Graphics Manipulation (GIMP)
- OSS Web Content Management and Collaboration Tools - Git/Subversion/CVS/Darcs, RSS, Wikis, Blogs
- OSS Audio and Video Systems - Pod/Vidcasts, Jabber, SIP, unencumbered audio and video formats
- OSS Security - GNU Privacy Guard, PKI
- OSS, Google, Ajax, Web 2.0
Class Meetings - 2011
1. |
Meeting One |
Monday, May 23, 2011 |
LECTURE : Introduction to Open Source |
2. |
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011 |
LECTURE : Introduction to Open Source (2) |
3. |
Meeting Three |
Friday, May 27, 2011 |
Lab. Introducing Fedora and OSS
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4. |
Meeting Four |
Monday, May 30, 2011 |
LECTURE : OS Economic Model & Licensing -
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5. |
Meeting Five |
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 |
LECTURE : Win vs Linux & Virtualization & Cloud Computing |
6. |
Meeting Six |
Friday, June 3, 2011 |
Lab. Burning ISOs, PGP
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7. |
Meeting Seven |
Monday, June 6, 2011 |
LECTURE : Class Project; Public Key Infrastructure & LAMP -
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8. |
Meeting Eight |
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 |
LECTURE : Audio + Video Formats, Web 2.0
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9. |
Meeting Nine |
Friday, June 10, 2011 |
Lab. Web 2.0 Services
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10. |
Meeting Ten |
Monday, June 13, 2011 |
a) CLASS QUIZ - One hour. 6:30-7:30pm.
b) Class Project: Status and review
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11. |
Meeting Eleven |
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 |
LECTURE:
1. GPLv3, Open Standards, iCommons
2. PKI, GNU Privacy Guard, PGP,
3. Understanding cryptography
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12. |
Meeting Twelve |
Friday, June 17, 2011 |
Project review.
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13. |
Meeting Thirteen |
Monday, June 20, 2011 |
Class Project Presentation. |
Using IRC for logging the class:
We will be running IRC chats during the class. If you prefer, you can use the browser to do this. Go to:
http://webchat.freenode.net. Choose the channel #cpe802.
IRC Chat Logs:
1. May 30 2011
2. June 1, 2011
3. June 3, 2011
4. June 10, 2011
All are welcome to participate/contribute in the irc discussion online during the lesson.
Class Blogs
http://cpe802.pbworks.com/cpe802-blogs
Grading/Exams
- Grading will be: 80% from class project ProjectWork2011, 20% from the a class quiz to be held on June 13 2011 in LT10 during the regular class.
- The final project presentation will be on June 20th in LT10 as well from 6-9pm.
Viewing this site
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Copyright
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