Practical Course: Open Source Lab

Important Information

• Pre-meeting: 17:00 on 06.02.2024 via BBB (Link: https://bbb.cit.tum.de/fab-5cx-cfe-dvq)
  • Slides
  • Recording
• Registration: 09.02.–14.02.2024 using the matching system
• Duration: 01.04.2024 to 30.09.2024 with:
  • Weekly theory lectures at the beginning.
  • Later biweekly meetings to check student's practical progress.
  • Time slots will be decided in cooperation with the participants.
  • All lectures and meetings will be held online (virtual) using BBB, attendance is mandatory!
• Module ID: IN0012 / IN2106
• ECTS: 10
• Capacity: 10

Course Description

This practical course is designed as an introduction into the field of Open Source development. After a handful of introductory lectures, every student will work on their own or in a small team on one or multiple pull requests for Open Source projects.

Such Open Source projects could be BBB, GNU or TUM-dev. Interaction with the Open Source community is encouraged.

The following topics will be covered:

• Introduction, Git Basics and Getting Started
• Open Source, FOSS and Advanced Git
• Open Source Platforms (e.g., GitHub, GitLab) and Licenses
• Utilities like Static Analyzer, Linter, etc.
• CI/CD

Learning Outcomes / Study Goals

At the end of the module, students have acquired basics and advanced knowledge in working with Open Source projects and contributing to them. The students have understood how to start their own Open Source projects and select a proper license. Furthermore, the students have understood which tools like static analysis, continuous integration and linter they could use to validate their contribution before creating a pull request.

Teaching and Learning Methods

Lectures with hands-on sessions in the first phase, working on their own projects with biweekly intermediate presentations in the second phase.

Lectures

BBB: https://bbb.cit.tum.de/fab-5cx-cfe-dvq

• Week 1 [16.04.2024 Tuesday, 18:00 - 20:00]: Introduction, Git Basics and Getting Started
  • Slides:
    • Introduction
    • Git Basics and Getting Started
  • Recording
• Week 2 [23.04.2024 Tuesday, 18:00 - 20:00]: Open Source, FOSS and Advanced Git
  • Slides
    • Open Source and FOSS
    • Git Advanced
  • Recording
• Week 3 [30.04.2024 Tuesday, 18:00 - 20:00]: First Presentation Session
• Week 4 [07.05.2024 Tuesday, 18:15 - 20:00]: Open Source Platforms (e.g., GitHub, GitLab) and Licenses
  • Slides
    • Open Source Licenses
    • Source Code Hosting
  • Recording
• Week 5 [14.05.2024 Tuesday, 18:00 - 20:00]: Second Presentation Session
• Week 6 [15.05.2024 Wednesday, 18:00 - 20:00]: Utilities and CI/CD
  • Slides
    • Utilities
    • CI/CD
  • Recording
• Week 7 until the end: Biweekly Progress Report Presentations

Contacts

• Prof. Jörg Ott
• Fabian Sauter
• Christian Menges

If you want to get in contact with us: opensourcelab(at)cm.in.tum.de