1. 2011 5th International Workshop on Practical Engineering Education
The Effective Daum’s Coursework
focused on Open Source Software
in Jeju National University
Seokchan Yun*, Youngchul Byun**
(Daum Communications Corp, Korea*, Jeju National University, Korea**)

2. Agenda
• Why Open Source?
– Daum’s needs for OSS education
– Benefits of OSS education
– Encouragement program for students
• Open Source Class in Universities
– Open Source@Seneca
– Open Source Coursework in JNU
– Results
• Conclusion

3. I. Why Open Souce?

4. Daum’s Technical Platform
• GLAMJI
– Operation: Linux (Redhat)+Apache + MySQL
– Development: Java (Tomcat, Struts, Spring)
– Environment: IDE (Eclipse, SubVersion)
• Daum Forge
– Project management using Wiki, Jira and Trac
– Using project tools in open source softwares
– Needs to understand OSS culture!
• Supporting OSS community

5. GLAMJI Platform
– GNU/Linux
– Apache
– MySQL
– Java (Struts, Spring)
– IDE (Eclipse, Subversion, Jira)

6. Daum Forge
• Source Repository
– Source Control: Apache + Subversion + LDAP
– Bug Tracking: Jira
– Documentation: Confluence Wiki

7. Why supporting OSS community?
• http://ftp.daum.net
– OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4
– Memory: 12GB
– Storage: 4TB Raid Storage
– Network: Gigabit Ethernet
• http://oss.daum.net
– Community hosting server
• The key of Daum’s technical needs gathers students
being familiar with Open Source Software.
– Supporting local college curriculum

8. Benefits for students
Why do you join Open Source?
• Intellectually stimulating : 44.9%
• Personal Skill-up : 41.3%
• Supporting to be public source code : 33.1%
• Non-work functionality : 29.7%
• Work functionality : 33.8%
• Pleasure on community : 20.3%
• Improving career : 17.5%
• Reputation : 11.0%
• Hating commerce software : 11.1%
Reference: Boston Consulting Group (2002)
http://www.bcg.com/publications/publication_view.jsp?pubID=935&language=English

9. When do you join Open Source?
Free/Open Source Software: Survey and Study
http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/report/index.htm

10. Why not Adult?
Time Copyright

11. Why is important to students?
• Problems
– Despite of decreasing CS students, there is no chances to join
real world software development.
– Hard to recognize enterprise needs and global trends.
• Reason
– The period for intelligent stimulation ▶ Creative works
– Joining real-world software development.
– Learning chance to contribute for the society.
– Understanding community-driven software projects.
– Meet-up software mentors in community
– Going to the good software companies

12. Existing Activities
• Extending OSS users
– Supporting to install Open source software and teaching OSS
to student and let them use OSS
– Projects
• FSF: http://www.gnu.org/education/
• KDE: http://edu.kde.org/
• Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntufund.org/
• OpenOffice: http://education.openoffice.org/
• Connecting OSS community
– Google Summer of Code and Google Highly Open
Participation Contest, NCSoft Winter of Code
• Educational Curriculums
– OpenSource@Seneca, Mozilla Education Project, JNU’s Daum
Track

13. Finish elementary students to use Linux
Mongolian students to use OLPC

14. Google Summer of Code
• What’s SoC?
– Google Summer of Code is a program designed to encourage college student
participation in open source development with global scale communities
• Benefits
– Students gain: skills, real world experience, sample code, and contacts.
– Organizations gain: new contributions, contributors, and global exposure.

15. By universities
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/05/this-weeks-top-10s-universities-for.html

16. Google SoC: Mentor Summit

17. Google code-in (aka, Google Highly Open Participation Contest)
• For K12 students
• The contest was a great success with 361 students (ages
13-18) from 48 countries completing a total of 2,167
tasks during the 7 week contest period.

19. Korean activities

20. II. OSS Class in Universities

21. Existing Activities
• Offering education materials by Google
–
– http://code.google.com/edu/resources/index.html
• Open Source Class : But, not sustainable
– http://www.cs.pdx.edu/user/coursedetails/110
– http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/academics/courses/is296a-
2/f05/
– http://wiki.cs.rpi.edu/trac/rcos/wiki/
– http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2007/cmsc433/projects/os/ind
ex.html
• There is almost no educational programs for open
source software.

23. OpenSource@Seneca
• Introduction
– The first open source class engaged with OSS communities
by Seneca College in Canada
• How to
– Opening Classes from 2006
• DPS909: Topics in Open Source Development
• DPS911: Open Source Project
– http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
– Joining OSS developers as a lecturers
• Mozilla, Fedora, OpenOffice etc.
– Encouragement to join communities directly
• http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Project_List

24. OpenSource@Seneca

25. The first Open Source Class in Korea (2007)
Search “Open Source Class” in Google!

26. Coursework
• Introduction and history of Open Source
Software
• Developers tools
– SVN(Mercurial), Bugzilla, L10n and documentation
• Community-driven process
– Build, QA and release
• Lab project : connect to directly OSS projects
– Choice: Source-contribution, l10n and marketing etc.
– Requirement: at least one more participation in
existing OSS projects

29. How many join OSS project?
• 2007 (35 students)
– Localization in Sourceforge.net
– Some guys became l10n owner of specific project
• 2008 (28 students)
– Joining local OSS project : TextCube and XE Project
• 2009 (33 students)
– Joining local OSS project : Daum Open Editor
• 2010 (44 students)
– Joining global OSS project: Mozilla Support
• 2011 (26 students)
– Joinng global and local OSS projects
– Debian, OpenOffice, Mozilla, Ubuntu and XE

31. Extending coursework
Training OSS focused SW engineers
Curriculum, textbook and facilitation
OSE Track CT Track
OSS based OSS based
Operating OSS based Software
System Programming Learning
language OSS based
Project
Management
OSS based OSS based OSS based
Project Project and Programming
Management Excises Language

32. Curriculum and Textbooks
 CE Department: 10 classes for Open Software Experts
 Education Department: 5 classes for Computational Thinking

33. IV. 적용 현황
OSE Track Curriculum
2009
Class name Textbook Dept. Grade Students
1 2
Computer
Mobile Programming Java-based Mobile Apps ● Engineering 3 10
(JNU)
Java-based Ubiquitous
Artificial Intelligence ● 〃 10
Programming
Open Source Software
OSS Class Part I ● 〃 3 17
Development
Open Source Programming OSS Class Part II ● 〃 4 16
Internet Programming PHP Lanuage ● 〃 2 61
OSE
Track Operating Systems Linux Basics ● 〃 3 39
Data Structure Java-based Data Structure ● 〃 2 55
Database MySQL Basics ● 〃 3 22
Structured P2P Pastry
Network Applications Using FreePastry ● 〃 4 21
Embedded System Linux based Embedded System ● 〃 3 33
Analysis on Open source
Software Designs ● 〃 4 10
softwares
294

34. CT Track Curriculum
2009
Class Name Textbook Institution Grade Students
1 2
Computer
Programming Language Logo programming ● Education 2 10
(JNU)
Information Society Jeju Women’s
Logo Programming ● ● 2 313
and Computer High School
Information Society Jeju Science
Logo Programming ● ● 1 41
and Computer High School
CT
Computer
Computer Programming C Language ● ● Education 1 21
(JNU)
Computer
Web Programming PHP Language ● Education 1 28
(JNU)
Computer
System Programming Linux Basics ● Education 2 23
(JNU)
436

35. Daum Track

36. Facilitation
CE Department
Education Department High School

37. V. 적용결과
Results
Survey
 Half of students heard about open source software
 Most of students are participating and understands the class
Participation
Knowledge
적극적 비적극적
예 아니오
9%
43%
57%
91%
Understanding
Continuing Learning
100% 70% 50% 20% 0%
예 아니오
3% 9% 11%
11%
37% 40%
89%

38. Daum Tack
 Coding test #1 in all local applicants
 Rate: 2008- 100%, 2009- 88%, 2010- 90%

39. One suggestion!
• Make “UNIQUE” class for “OPEN SOURCE
SOFTWARES” to join community compared
with “SOFTWARE ENGINEERING”!
– Linux or Web programming class is NOT focused
on real open source software.
• Encourage community participation not only
to make source code!
– All students don’t love to make source code.

40. Conclusion : The future of OSS class for enterprise
• Extending OSS Eco-system
– Training long-term SW engineers
– Human resources for OSS based SW companies
– Vitalization value-added software based on OSS
• Just Education
– Extending Open Source Courseware
• MIT: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
• OCWC: http://ocwconsortium.org/
– Not only knowledge but also Sharing (Real
engineering education)

41. Contact
• Seokchan Yun
channy@daumcorp.com
http://channy.creation.net
• Youngchul Byun
ycb@jejunu.ac.kr