MP *51

COSI For Credit

Variable Credit

Jeanna Matthews

Fall 2007


Instructor

Jeanna Matthews
Office: Science Center 389
Phone: 268-6288
E-mail: jnm@clarkson.edu
Homepage: http://web2.clarkson.edu/~jnm

Meeting Times

Regular COSI meetings will be every other Weds 8-9 PM in the COSI lab. There will also be workdays and other meetings as announced.

Resources

Main COSI page

Other Semesters

Expectations

MP*51 is a set of multidisciplinary project courses that have been set up to award course credit for participation in COSI and for open source projects in general. MP151 is for freshman, MP251 for sophomores, MP351 is for juniors, MP451 is for seniors and MP551 is for graduate students. It is available to enroll in each of these courses for between 0 and 3 credits.

When you enroll in an MP*51 course, the number of credit hours you register for determines the expectations. There are also some activities that are required of all students enrolled in an MP*51 course even those taking MP*51 for zero credits. The following table describes these expectations. Exceptions can be made to adjust requirements on a case by case basis (e.g. taking 2 credits but not following an existing open source group because you are contributing heavily to an open source project), but that requires prior discussion and arrangement.

Everyone including zero credit students are responsbile for attending regular COSI meetings, submitting a web page at midterm time and at the end of the semester and contributing to COSI-wide projects as specified by the student directors and faculty advisor of COSI.

Credits Description Requirements
0 Attend Attend regular COSI meetings
5 hours contribution to overall COSI projects including open houses, lab maintenance
Take turns recording and posting notes for the weekly meetings
Web page summarizing experiences/contributions at midterm time and updated for end of semester
1 Learn, Summarize and Report All requirements for 0 credits.
Overall projects should require approximately 3 hours per week of work. Additional 5 hours contribution (10 total) to overall COSI projects including open houses. lab maintenace
Actively seek knowledge on specific topics related to computing and open source software, master new skills
Share what you are learning with others, produce tutorials/documentation
Take on an active role/responsibility in the lab.
Must produce and post documentation about what you learned.
2 Teach/Outreach All requirements for 1 credits.
Overall projects should require approximately 6 hours per week of work. Additional 5 hours contribution (15 total) to overall COSI projects including open houses. lab maintenace
Run a workshop or lab session in which you share your expertise with others
Must produce and post notes/presentation materials.
Take on active role/responsibility in the lab.
3 Produce/Solve/Lead All requirements for 2 credits.
Overall projects should require approximately 9 hours per week of work Additional 5 hours contribution (20 total) to overall COSI projects including open houses. lab maintenace
Produce specific improvements to COSI and the open source community (write code for an open source project, take a leadership role in managing/maintaining the COSI lab )

Meeting Topics

Date Summary
8/29/2007 Activities Fair
9/5/2007 First official meeting
9/12/2007 On-going Projects, Roles and Responsibilities Overview
9/15/2007 Sofware Freedom Day
9/19/2007 Career Fair, Visitors (and alums) Eli Dow and Demetrios Dimatos
9/26/2007 Lab Guiding Principles, MP* web page logistics, My Summer in CA presentations

Students

Name Course Hours
Jeffrey Ward 451 2
Chris Peterman 451 1
Maximillian Edmands 351 0
Ryan Lewis 351 2
Martin McDermott 351 2
Tabor Powelson 351 0
Dan Mandle 251 2
Matt McCarrell 251 1
Zach Shepherd 251 2
Robert Appleton 151 0
Joshua Caprood 151 0
Thomas Fitzsimmons 151 0
Curtis Hostetter 151 1
Matthew Howansky 151 0
Jeffrey Wincek 151 0