This is a presentation from the team of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki who conducted a workshop on open source principles in education.

1. FLOSSCom.net Workshop Event : Learning with/in FLOSS Website: http://sweng.csd.auth.gr/ Speaker : Sulayman K Sowe Email: [email_address] Place : Aristotle University Date : Thursday, May 31, 2007

5. What are FLOSS Communities? Early communities, e.g. Linux A great babbling bazaar of differing agendas out of which a coherent and stable system (e.g. Linux OS) emerged (E. S. Raymond. 1999)

8. What are FLOSS Communities? Role transition/migration FLOSS communities are permeable. Roles are not fixed

9. Group Learning in FLOSS Knowledge Base Community Community You want to learn something? I can’t install this software Learn Learn Learn Learn Learn I have seen how it is done! I will do it later

12. Bridging the Learning Context, FLOSS Style Learning Content Informal Formal Context Filters Expertise Experience Interests Role Org Position Affiliations Politics Objectives Location Culture Learner FLOSS Community Group Individual Contextual Gap

13. Bridging the Gap Learner Context Filters Expertise Experience Interests Role Org Position Affiliations Politics Objectives Location Culture Contextual Gap Learning Content Informal Formal FLOSS Community Group Individual Expertise Experience Interests Role Org Position Affiliations Politics Objectives Location Culture

15. FLOSScome is here for you all Thank you for your attention! Reference Sulayman K Sowe. (2007). An Empirical Study of Knowledge Sharing in Free/Open Source Software Projects. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. May, 2007.