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I 320S : Topics in Social Informatics: Open Source Software Development

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Catalog Description

Practical skills and understandings required to effectively work with open source software and understand the projects that build them. Includes git-based collaboration as well as conceptual understanding of licenses, security, technical and social processes in open source development. Class projects involve working with digital trace data from open source repositories. Also offered as Informatics 320D.

Prerequisites

Upper-division standing and Informatics 310S.

Instructor Topic Title Year Semester Syllabus
James Howison
2025Spring

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