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 Web page summarizing experiences/contributions at midterm time and updated for end of semester |
| 1 | Learn, Summarize and Report |
All requirements for 0 credits. Additional 5 hours contribution (10 total) to overall COSI projects including open houses. lab maintenace Choose an open source project to follow and report/summarize (OSDL working groups, kernel mailing list, etc.) or learn the internals of an open source application and report, etc. Regular every other week reports(written and oral) (report news of interest to others, ideas for projects, summary of activity, etc.) |
| 2 | Produce |
All requirements for 1 credits. Additional 5 hours contribution (15 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, write documentation for open source code) |
| 3 | Outreach |
All requirements for 2 credits. Additional 5 hours contribution (20 total) to overall COSI projects including open houses. lab maintenace Run a workshop or lab session in which you share your expertise with others |
| Date | Summary |
|---|---|
| 1/18/2006 | First Meeting; Dean Pratt brings architectural drawings of planned lab rennovations |
| 1/25/2006 | Welcome back and discuss projects, planned tutorials, etc. |
| 2/2/2006 | Chris Peterman and Todd Deshane discuss bug triaging at http://launchpad.ubuntu.com/ |
| 2/9/2006 | Jeremey Bongio on PyGTK |
| 2/15/2006 | Mike McCabe on User Mode Linux |
| 2/22/2006 | Mike McCabe on lexx and yacc |
| 2/29/2006 | Jeremy Bongio |
| 3/22/2006 | Rob Tompkins on X |
| 4/5/2006 | Rob Tompkins on Parallel Processing |
| 4/12/2006 | Todd Deshane on Google development or Mercurial |
| Name | Course | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Rob Tompkins | 451 | 2 |
| Jeremy Bongio | 351 | 3 |
| Chris Peterman | 251 | 2 |
| Jeff Ward | 251 | 1 |
| Patrick Wilbur | 251 | 2 |
| Ryan Lewis | 151 | 2 |
| Tabor Powelson | 151 | 0 |
| Joshua Newell | 151 | 0 |
| Steven Terrill | 151 | 0 |