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Romanian Open Source Education Overview Booklet

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About ROSEdu

ROSEdu is a community that brings together people with passion for programming, opensource software and IT. At this point most ROSEdu members are students at the Automatic Control and Computers Faculty, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest. New members are welcome regardless of their background. Our belief is that everyone should benefit from our projects and activities. This is why everything we create uses an FOSS licensing system. The copyright nevertheless belongs to the people taking part at various ROSEdu projects. Although many of our projects are related to university educational environment, other kinds of projects may be created depending on the preferences and needs of ROSEdu members. For any information regarding ROSEdu please use the Contact form at the end of this booklet.

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Team

ROSEdu consists of volunteers and enthusiasts passionate about free/open-source software, open technologies and communities. Started as a community project in the spring of 2007, ROSEdu is currently working on becoming a fully-fledged non-profit organization. Most ROSEdu members are students at the Automatic Control and Computers Faculty. At this point there is no formal status defined, such that a ROSEdu member is a person with constant involvement in community activities. Members of ROSEdu include (but are not limited to): Alex Eftimie, Andrei Buhaiu, Vlad Dogaru, Sergiu Iordache, Mihai Maruseac, Andrei Soare, Lucian Grijincu, Mihai Dumitrache, Razvan Deaconescu, Lucian Cojocar, Andrada Georgescu, Alex Juncu, Vali Priescu. ROSEdu members value passion about technology and communities, diversity, knowledge sharing, on-topic and off-topic discussions. We enjoy being part of activities that are both fun and useful.

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Projects

ROSEdu coordinates two types of activies: • open-source development projects • community development Most of the projects are focused on easing the transition to an open-source environment (operating system, basic applications, GUI, development tools). We are trying to blend as much as possible the fun/passion/enthusiasm factor with the usefulness project. The development projects are aimed at solving a particular problem or optimizing certain aspects of day to day activities. Most of our activities take part under the umbrella of the CS Department. Some projects (WoUSO, CSpay, vmchecker) have been integrated in educational or administration activities of the department. We are always open to new ideas and value initiative and involvement. An interesting project or activity is welcome as a ROSEdu project even if it's not coming from a ROSEdu member.

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Ubuntu Install Fest

ROSEdu summer of code

One of the first community events that ROSEdu organized was Ubuntu Install Fest. We have coordinated two Ubuntu Install Fests following the same recipe used by other Ubuntu Communities.

ROSEdu Summer of Code is a project whose aim is to give students an alternative summer internship program. Students and enthusiasts can be a part of existing or new ROSEdu projects.

The main target group were freshmen and people new to Ubuntu and open-source technologies, but the initiative was open to everyone.

We aim to help the participants become better programmers and familiarize themselves with the FOSS development environment and working in a community.

Although Ubuntu was the primary distribution used for installation and configuration, we provided support for other distributions as well.

As it name shows, the development environment took its inspiration from Google Summer of Code. Students may apply to one of the projects presented on the site. Development occurs during the summer holiday but further collaboration is welcome. This summer (2009) we will continue the tradition and host RSoCv2. Many of RSoCv1’s projects year will be included. Hosted at RSoCv1: • Hammerfall – general purpose graphics engine written in Python • VMChecker – automated homework evaluation

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• WoUSO – educational game for 1st year students • CSpay – administration tool for automating the creation of salary documents • Tigus – bar code test generator

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CDL

CSPay

The Open Source Development Course is an 8 week event consisting of various activities (courses, hackathons, application based workshops) for students at the University “Politehnica” of Bucharest. It focuses on useful open source development tools and working in an open source community.

CSPay, one of the first projects developed at ROSEdu, is an administration tool used for automating the creation of salary documents in University “Politehnica” of Bucharest.

At its first year, the course was attended by 16 students (around 80 students applied). It was divided in two components: • a course during which theoretical knowledge about working on a project is presented • a workshop where students learn practical skills of using open-source tools

Its main software components were two underlying libraries and a set of user interfaces (CLI and WebUI). CSPay was developed using C, PHP, Python, and shell scripts. This was our first occasion to learn how to use revision control systems and mailing lists and how to work as a community. The project was part of ROSEdu Summer of Code during which it was restructured and improved. CSPay is used by university staff at the Automatic Control and Computers Faculty.

The course aims at preparing students for their first experience with free/open-source applications and communities.

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Hammerfal Graphics Engine

World of USO

The Hammerfall project aims at creating a graphics engine using portable and open source tools. Development and implementation technologies include: OpenGL, Python, SVN and Trac.

WoUSO (World of USO) is an educational game targeting students of the Operating System Usage (OSU) course of the Automatic Control and Computers faculty. It is meant to encourage acquiring knowledge in an educational and competitive mode.

The project was launched over an year ago and was part of the first edition of ROSEdu Summer Of Code. This period was used for establishing the project’s baselines and purpose. Development has continued to this day and Hammerfall will be included in ROSEdu Summer Of Code v2. Our team consists of 1st, 2nd and 3rd year students from the Automatic Control and Computers Faculty, UPB. The current goal is creating a generic graphics engine that can be used in as many applications as possible ranging from simulators to computer games.

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The game is in its second year, attracting over 100 students in the 2008-2009 academic year. The best students were given special awards at the end of the competition. WoUSO is being actively developed and will continue into the 3rd version. The technologies used are web specific: PHP, MySQL, Smarty and XML. WoUSO is a free open source software and is distributed under an open source license. It was awarded the first prize during the Scientific Student Presentations of 2008.

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vmchecker

Social Thingie

Automated homework testing increases the assignment quality and educational experience of the students. This also encourages students to create better homework.

We all need a little R&R every now and then. ROSEdu Social Thingie is focused on the more social part of a community.

vmchecker is a scalable homework testing framework that can be used for a wide range of courses, enabling the evaluation of homework needing complete administrative rights on a system. vmchecker is used to test homework for Compiler Course (java homework for source code translation), Operating Systems (C/C++ homework using Linux/Windows syscalls), Operating System Design (kernel drivers and modules needing complete access on the system) at the Computer Science department in Politehnica University of Bucharest.

All work and no play makes John a robotic programmer, and we don’t want that at ROSEdu. We want to include as much fun and passion both in our projects and also other activities. A little bit of fun is particularly useful for team building and community binding. After two successful editions we decided to organize Social Thingie events on a regular basis. So far social activities included bowling, air hockey and other games we consider fun.

vmchecker was awarded the first prize during the Scientific Student Presentations of 2009.

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Contact

Site www.rosedu.org

Mailing list http://lists.rosedu.org/listinfo/rosedu-general

IRC channel #[email protected]

Trac http://dev.rosedu.org

Live Contact "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, EG106c (IXIA Lab).

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