Title: Glorious failures in FOSS and Education

Presenter: Mel Chua, mel@redhat.com

Abstract: Students need projects. FOSS communities need contributors. Seems like a simple enough thing to solve both problems at once by having teachers get students to contribute to FOSS communities - but subtle cultural differences between academia and FOSS can cause unexpected problems. I'll take a humorous look at mistakes I've made working with students in the OLPC, Fedora, and Sugar Labs projects - and how you can profit from my failures by avoiding them yourself.