After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

• participate in FLOSS initiatives,
• found new FLOSS initiatives,
• use FLOSS methods in business context.

Technical and Methodological Knowledge

• describe foundations of FLOSS processes,
• systematically design and construct FLOSS and
• reproduce chosen FLOSS software architectures.

Cognitive and Practical Skills

• use techniques for quality assurance in the context of FLOSS,
• use exemplary FLOSS tools.

Social and Personal Skills

• communicate within FLOSS-communities.

1. Reporting and triage of bugs as well as other issues
2. Decentralized version control systems; create and review pull requests
3. Development tools, shell scripts and automatic reformatting
4. Test automation and continuous integration
5. Generate documentation; verify tutorials
6. Recognize and improve ways of communications and entry barriers
7. Maintenance: releases, packaging and release notes
8. Public, inclusive and collaborative methods of FLOSS software development
9. Software architectures, architectural decisions and directory structures
10. Create open standards/RFCs/proposals

key words: Freie Software - Free Software - freiheitsgewährende Software - OSS - Linux - Elektra - CI - RFC - Open Standard - Open Data - Offene Daten - Open Everything

The VU will be held hybrid but with complete distance learning as option:

• a synchronous, hybrid (if possible in a lecture room and online in any case) meeting every week with: short keynotes, recapitulations, discussions, votings, station learning, group work etc.
• asynchronous lecture videos or reading texts
• homework
• teamwork
• one project: found/maintain your (own) FLOSS initiative
• written report using scientific literature about FLOSS
• presentation
• reviews of pull-requests and written reports
• TUWEL as fixed channel of communication

The preliminary talk is on Wednesday 5.10.2022 14:00 c. t.-15:00 hybrid in https://bbb.libelektra.org/b/mar-2ao-0bw-rb3 (being on-site in GM4 Knoller is additionally possible).

 ECTS Breakdown

• 2h preliminary talk
• 15h homework
• 15h teamwork
• 19h for preparing and visiting meetings
• 24h project, report and presentation

= 75 hours working time (3 ECTS)

The grade is calculated by the individual assessments with the following balance:

30 %: homework
30 %: teamwork
40 %: project with report

A positive grade requires a given presentation and the positive assessment of all parts. Following grades will be issued: genügend (4) for more than 50%, befriedigend (3) for more than 62,5%, gut (2) for more than 75% and sehr gut (1) for more than 87,5% of the reached points in the assessments.

If the registration in TISS does not work, please write an email with your student number to markus.raab@complang.tuwien.ac.at.

Will be published in TUWEL.

Before participating in this course, students are required to...

Cognitive and Practical Skills

• translate informal program descriptions given in natural language into executable programs written in one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, Rust, Kotlin, Lua, Ruby or Go

Social and Personal Skills:

• being able to present technical content

Preliminary skills can be acquired, e.g., in:

• Introduction to Programming