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PProspects on 'Open Source Software Development' Education to Technical Education Students of India

by Vinay Tiwari, R.k. Pandey
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 46 - Number 12
Year of Publication: 2012
Authors: Vinay Tiwari, R.k. Pandey
10.5120/6962-9478

Vinay Tiwari, R.k. Pandey . PProspects on 'Open Source Software Development' Education to Technical Education Students of India. International Journal of Computer Applications. 46, 12 ( May 2012), 28-38. DOI=10.5120/6962-9478

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title = { PProspects on 'Open Source Software Development' Education to Technical Education Students of India },
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issue_date = { May 2012 },
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month = { May },
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Abstract

With the success story of various open source software, open source software development during the last decade has got phenomenal momentum and attracted software developers around the world to join this revolution. Open Source Project hosting Websites like SourceForge, Google Code, GitHub, Codeplex, Launchpad etc. not only providing open source packages to the users but also providing development platform to the developers and still thousands of open source projects are in developing stage at these sites. Despite the success of OSS worldwide the adoption rate of OSS in India is very poor. Not only the usage of OSS but the participation in OSS development of Indian developer is also very less. Despite the fact that Indian universities are producing huge IT force and Indian developers are in the driving seats in software development, they are not among the list of top ten countries of OSS developer community. This paper study and analyzes the reasons behind the less involvement of Indian developers / students in OSS movement. We will conduct survey among the students of technical education to know their current status of knowledge towards the OSS, study the current learning pattern and software development practices of IT students, highlights the benefits of involving students in OSS development and proposes the changes in the syllabus for the adoption of study of OSS and OSS development in technical education of India

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Open Source Software Oss Development Teaching Open Source Project Curriculum Development

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