The Web Economy/14

Completion status: this resource is ~50% complete.

Resource type: this resource is a lesson.

Educational level: this is a tertiary (university) resource.

Critical Tools And Skills

This is a lesson part of the module The Web Economy out of the Open Source ERP/Executive Diploma course conducted by a private university.

Topics

• Today's knowledge worker in a community open source must know certain basic tools and skills to perform efficiently
• Among the further tools they have to handle are Chatroom client, Sourceforge repository^[1], and Wikimedia^[2].
• Skills involve soft skills such as been able to follow forum threads and response to them, and editing wikis.
• In an Open Source Software project, the contributors have to possess a high level of programming ability and be familiar with the subject matter.

Assignment Tasks

• Create our own user account in this Wikiversity project. Take a tour here^[3] if you are a newbie.
• Research other user pages and dress up your own user page with relevant information about yourself and what you do.
• Create also an account in the the ADempiere Open Source ERP project wiki ADempiere Wiki and introduce yourself in the Community Portal.
• Create your discussion pages as sub pages in the wikiversity project. Create your classroom page as Open Source ERP/Classroom/09/1 etc.
• Try to edit some of the ADempiere Wiki such as typo and grammar mistakes.
• Comment in the talk pages on any point that is fitting. Remember to sign your name.
• Create a user account in http://sf.net/
• Browse through the trackers of http://sf.net/projects/adempiere ^[4]
• How is open source software contribution different from a Wikipedian article contribution?

Activities

• Publish your works in an attractive manner in your user page, stating your own views and findings providing links to your sources. Use the talk page here to score marks.
• Create or edit sub-pages of course materials within wikiversity.
• Discuss in the forum (link shall be provided) by offering your ideas and answering or comment on others' postings.

References

1. ↑ http://sf.net/projects/adempiere
2. ↑ http://www.adempiere.com/wiki/
3. ↑ http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Help:The_original_tour_for_newcomers
4. ↑ http://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?group_id=176962

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Sub-Pages

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