Topics in Social Informatics: Open Source Software Development

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.
Course Areas
Social Informatics

Course classes

Instructor Title Year Semester Syllabus
James Howison I 320S: Topics in Social Informatics: Open Source Software Development 2025 Spring Term 2025