COURSE OUTLINE

S.No.

Unit

Contents
What is Open Source? , Why Open Source?

1.

Unit - 1
What is Open Standard? - Why Open Standards?

Unit 2
Peek into history

Unit 3
Governance of Open Standard by community

Unit 4
Current trend in Open Source Software around the world

Unit 5
Showcases of Open Source Software

Unit 6
Legal issues in Open Source Software

Unit 7

DETAILED SESSION PLAN

Sl.

No. of

No

Sessions

Pedagogy

Detail of References

Unit-1

Lecture and

What is Open Source? , Why Open Source?

Assignment #1
(T1)Lesson #1

1.

Group Discussion
White board
Class room

Pg.21-31
T1 Lesson #2
Pg # 34

Discussion

Lecture
Quiz#1
Presentation/
2

Exercise for

Definition
A brief history about open source
development
The evolution of the open source
movement
Benefit of Free/Open Source Software
Advantages and disadvantages of open
source
Open Source trends and perspective
Split open source software /
commercial products
Unit-2
What is Open Standard? - Why Open
Standards?

(T3)Lesson #2

Group Discussion/
2

Coverage

Pg# 9-23

Definition
Open standards and vendor
independence
Open Source vs. Open Standards

Questionnaire designing
Examples
Unit-3

Presentation/

T2:Lesson #9

Group Discussion/
Case Study
Class room

Pg No. 129-176

Peek into history

The 70s and early 80s

A history of Linux & Brief
History of FreeBSD & Brief
History of KDE & Brief
History of GNOME & Brief
History of Apache & Brief

 History of Mozilla & Brief

History of Open Office & Brief
History of Red Hat & Brief
History of Java & Brief
History of PHP & Brief
History of Eclipse & Brief
Unit-4

Class Test I

Lecture and
Assignment #2
4

(T3)Lesson #15

Group Discussion
4

Governance of Open Standard by

community
Formal Standard Bodies
Vendor Organizations and Consortia

Pg.No. 223-249

White board
Class room
Discussion

2
5

Lecture

Unit-5

Quiz#2

Current trend in Open Source Software

around the world

Presentation/
Group Discussion/

Instructor Material by IBM

Exercise for Questionnaire

Operating systems
Application Development
Database
Languages

Designing Examples
Unit-6

Presentation/
Group Discussion/
6

Case Study
Class room
Class Test II

Showcases of Open Source Software

Instructor Material
By IBM

Introduction to Linux
What is Linux
Background of Linux
Why is Linux so popular
What can you do with Linux
Linux Distributions

 Linux Technology Center

Future of Linux
Installation Of Linux
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Lecture and
7

Assignment #3

(T1) Lesson# 3

Unit-8

Pg.No. 43-48

Intellectual property,copyright and

(T2) Lesson#3
Pg. No. 42-56

licensing
Open Source Licensing
Choosing the right license

TEXT BOOKS:
[T1] Open Source Development by Rachna Kapur,Mario Briggs,Tapas Saha,Peter Kohlmann,Raul
F. Chong .
[T2] Introduction To free Software by J. Gonzalez Barahona publication: Free technology
Academy.
[T3] Open Systems and Standards for Software Product Development by P. A. Dargan
Publication: Artech House, Inc.
REFERENCE BOOKS

Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software by Joseph Feller Publication:The MIT Press
Cambridge
Agile Technologies in Open Source Development By Barbara Russo Publication: Free
University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

VIDEO RESOURCES (URL LINK) AND NPTEL LECTURES

www.openstandards.net

www.openinnovation.net