Introduction to libre
software
Summary of the course
Israel Herraiz
<herraiz@gsyc.es>
A Coruña, October 19th 2007
Master on Free Software

Goals
● Fundamentals for the rest of courses
● Basic concepts
● Basic technologies
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Contents
● Introduction to libre software
● History
● Motivations and consequences
● Legal aspects. Licenses. Patents.
● Business models
● Libre software engineering
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Technologies
● Moodle
● Gforge
● Mailing lists
● Bug Tracker
● Subversion
● DocBook
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Methodology
● Sessions with theoretical presentations
● Practices with participation of the
students
● Readings, slides, etc in the Moodle site
● Forum in Moodle (only as a “backup”)
● Gforge for the practices and works of the
students
● Weekly quiz in Moodle
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Evaluation
● Weekly based by means of quiz
● At the end of the course, based on the
work of the students
● Work
– Written in DocBook
– English will be encouraged
● Topics yet to be decided
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GForge
● We will keep in touch through the mailing
list
● We will assign and follow the works using
the Tracker
● Delivery and development of the works
using Subversion
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DocBook
● DocBook seminar
● Everything you need to know, you will
learn it in this course
● Used by most of the projects for
documentation purposes
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Recommend bibliography
● Producing Open Source Software (O'
Reilly)
● Open Source for the Enterprise (O' Reilly)
● Materials from the PhD program at URJC /
UPM
● Free software for a free society (by
Richard Stallman)
● DocBook, the definitive guide
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Summary
● Goals of this master
– Student will be able of joining a project and
participating on it, with all the needed
theoretical and technological background
● Goals of this course
– Theoretical and technological fundamentals
for the rest of courses
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Any question?
● Moodle
– http://gsyc.es/moodle
● GForge
– http://forge.morfeo-project.org/projects/freeswmaster
● Questions
– General mailing list in GForge
– Forum in Moodle
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