Friends.
Found an excellent book on Teaching Open Source.
"Practical Open Source Software Exploration"
"How to be Productively Lost, the Open Source Way Edition 0.8"
Get it at
http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Textbook_Release_0.8
It has the following contents.
1. Foreword, by Greg DeKoenigsberg
2. Introduction to Free and Open Source Software, by Greg DeKoenigsberg
3. The Lay of the Land, by Chris Tyler
4. Getting the Code, by Greg DeKoenigsberg and Mel Chua
5. Building the Code, by Greg DeKoenigsberg
6. Debugging the Code, by Greg DeKoenigsberg
7. Fixing the Code, by Jeff Sheltren
8. Explaining the Code: the Art of Documentation, by Karsten Wade
9. Release Early, Release Often, by Greg DeKoenigsberg
This is an excellent book to teach/mentor/learn on contributing to open source.
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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
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