This course aims to help learners locate the position of information technology and its purpose and utilization in context of God’s work of building His Kingdom through giving Christian or Non-Christian IT engineers with inspiration for inventing new technology. This course especially do this by introducing historical development and advancement of open source developer community.
Learners are advised to watch video, read the week's textbook, and then think and write answers to the questions of the week's test.
This course uses writings from Eric Raymond as textbook.
Revolution OS (GNU, Linux, FOSS)
The Code: Story of Linux documentary
Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary
How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too)
Corporate Open Source Anti-patterns
Achieving Massive Open Source Project Adoption
Overcoming barriers to open source adoption in the public sector
Open Source Adoption in the Enterprise
See why Microsoft loves Linux and Open Source
Bye-bye Ballmer, hello open source? Microsoft's upcoming options by Simon Phipps
Open Government by O'Reilly Media
Open Source Guides by Github
Ask HN: Why don't more open-source projects monetize? by Hacker News