MP *51

COSI For Credit

Variable Credit

Jeanna Matthews

Spring 2005


Meeting Times

Regular COSI meetings will be every other Weds at 6:30 PM in the COSI lab. There will also be workdays and other meetings as announced.

Expectations

MP*51 is a set of multidisciplinary project courses that have been set up to award course credit for participation in COSI and for open source projects in general. MP151 is for freshman, MP251 for sophomores, MP351 is for juniors, MP451 is for seniors and MP551 is for graduate students. It is available to enroll in each of these courses for between 0 and 3 credits.

When you enroll in an MP*51 course, the number of credit hours you register for determines the expectations. There are also some activities that are required of all students enrolled in an MP*51 course even those taking MP*51 for zero credits. The following table describes these expectations. Exceptions can be made to adjust requirements on a case by case basis (e.g. taking 2 credits but not following an existing open source group because you are contributing heavily to an open source project), but that requires prior discussion and arrangement.

Everyone including zero credit students are responsbile for attending regular COSI meetings, submitting a web page at midterm time and at the end of the semester and contributing to COSI-wide projects as specified by the student directors and faculty advisor of COSI.

For some project ideas, look here.
Credits Description Requirements
0 Attend Attend regular COSI meetings
5 hours contribution to overall COSI projects including open houses, lab maintenance
Web page summarizing experiences/contributions at midterm time and updated for end of semester
1 Learn, Summarize and Report All requirements for 0 credits.
Additional 5 hours contribution (10 total) to overall COSI projects including open houses. lab maintenace
Choose an open source project to follow and report/summarize (OSDL working groups, kernel mailing list, etc.) or learn the internals of an open source application and report, etc.
Regular every other week reports(written and oral) (report news of interest to others, ideas for projects, summary of activity, etc.)
2 Produce All requirements for 1 credits.
Additional 5 hours contribution (15 total) to overall COSI projects including open houses. lab maintenace
Produce specific improvements to COSI and the open source community (write code for an open source project, take a leadership role in managing/maintaining the COSI lab, write documentation for open source code)
3 Outreach All requirements for 2 credits.
Additional 5 hours contribution (20 total) to overall COSI projects including open houses. lab maintenace
Run a workshop or lab session in which you share your expertise with others

Resources

Main COSI page

Instructor

Jeanna Matthews
Office: Science Center 389
Phone: 268-6288
E-mail: jnm@clarkson.edu
Homepage: http://web2.clarkson.edu/~jnm

Meeting Minutes

Date Summary
1/12/2005 First Meeting, Review C4C criteria, Discuss project ideas
1/26/2005 Round robin Interesting Things; Summarizing Lists we are on and/or choosing a new list for next time
2/9/2005 Checking everyones web pages, OSDL contest submissions, Round robin list and status updates, Workshop plans

Students

Name Course Hours
Jeff Ward 151 0
Patrick Wilbur 151 2
James Kraetz 151 2
Rob Tirrell 151 2
Jeremy Bongio 251 0
Matthew Britton 251 0
Jeremy Hay 251 0
Rouslan Solomakhin 251 3
Justin Basinger 351 1
Justin Leider 351 1
Mike McCabe 351 3
Ed Despard 451 1
Aaron Hughes 451 3
Kevin Roberts 451 3
Mike Chavoustie 551 3