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OSDDP: Involving Students With Open Source Docs

Posted by timothy on from the hey-look-they're-adding-to-the-commonwealth dept.

cel4145 writes "The Professional Writing Program at Purdue University recently began the Open Source Development and Documentation Project (OSDDP) where students and instructors across multiple sections of business and technical writing are producing documentation for and about open source applications (see the press release or a mirror). The community and project are modeled after the open source development model and based on service learning principles. For example, students are already working on end user documentation and case study analysis for Drupal and market research and analysis for OpenOffice. Completed texts will be published using a Creative Commons license."

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  1. OS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why must universities constantly whore themselves out to business???

    God forbid someone take a stand for intellectualism in this country.

  2. Great Idea! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How about you step away from the computer and go outside? Maybe go for a walk or something. There is a great big world outside of your mom's basement, waiting for you to explore it. Wear sunscreen and you should be fine. Maybe then you will realize that open sauce is not all that important.

  3. Nice concept, cudos to the one that thought this by KZigurs · · Score: 1, Troll

    So now we have a "document flanky open source projects" in undergraduate curriculums?

    I'm impressed. Altought it may seem quite idiotic and useless on the first sight, after all, you take a bunch of uninterested students and give them idiotic and generally useless task (after all, WHO does read the documentation), but on the other hand - imagine, back to the basics. Student driven economy. Software wars between universities. Sabotage projects by seniors on the competitors cvs.

    Ah, the future. It looks so bright with this nonsense ideas available on the grounds of creative commons licence. Better back to building that shelter.