Course description
Today, free and open technologies are ubiquitous. The aim of this course is to acquire a fundamental understanding of their scope, impact, and importance in various settings, such as science, industry, and education. Students should be able to apply these principles in different contexts and projects.
For more details see TISS course page.
Lecture outline
- FLOSS (Free/libre and open-source software)
- Open Hardware
- Open Data
- Open Content/Open Educational Resources
- Open Science/Research
- Open Access
- Open Spaces/Open Practices
- Guest Lecture
Timeline
- October 8, 2019: Lecture - Introductory lecture & FLOSS
- October 15, 2019: Lecture - Open Hardware
- October 22, 2019: Lecture - Open Data
- October 25, 2019: Project - Deadline for group forming & topic selection (via e-mail)
- October 29, 2019: Lecture - Open Content/Open Educational Resources
- November 5, 2019: Lecture - Open Access
- November 8, 2019: Project - Group meeting: discuss project idea
- November 12, 2019: Lecture - Open Science/Research [code]
- November 19, 2019: Lecture - Excursion: Open Spaces/Open Practices by Petar Kosic and Clemens Hopfer at Metalab
- November 26, 2019: Lecture - Guest Lecture by Taguhi Torosyan (Mz* Baltazar’s Lab) + Summary & Upcoming Tasks
- November 29, 2019: Project - Group meeting: progress review + feedback
- November 29, 2019 Paper - Deadline for group forming & topic selection: (via e-mail)
- January 10, 2020: Project - Group meeting: review + feedback for project finalisation, ideas for presentation/demo
- January 24, 2020: Project - Course Feedback & Upcoming Tasks and final project presentations
- January 31, 2020: Project - Paper presentations
- February 9, 2020: Paper - Deadline for paper submission (no exceptions!)
Student projects
Putting Austrian academics on Wikipedia
Create, edit, and improve content on Wikipedia regarding Austrian academics with special emphasis on notable women.
By Mohammad Zandpour, Vasilena Kisova, Daniela Shopova, and Eva Jobst.
Links: Project website, Final presentation
Smart Plant Pot
Conceptualize and build a smart pot that can provide various data about a plant, such as its temperature, humidity, etc., to users with a smartphone app.
By Daniel Metzger, Mark Peneder, Dorin Postolache, and Felix Walcher.
Links: Project website, Final presentation
Vienna Visualization
Visualize open data from the city of Vienna and gain new insights from population data.
By Sarah Hanna Fischer, Michael König, Lisa Müllner, and Florian Ploier.
Links: GitHub repo, Final presentation
Visjo
Create a map-based visualization of geo-tagged pictures.
By Carlos Rodriguez, Daniel Heger, Matthias Reisacher, and Onur Gürcay.
Links: GitHub repo, Final presentation
Vowikiathon
Create, extend, and improve VoWi (Vorlesungswiki) pages.
By Mariya Popel, Renée Sophie Singer, Lina Wang, and Kristina Weinberger.
Project ideas
- Project 1: Open-source light tomography demo kit
- Project 2: Low-cost open-source microscopy
- Project 3: Open-source acoustics-based computer interface
- Project 4: Open-source stereoscopic camera
- Project 5: Analyze contributors and funders of FLOSS projects
- Project 6: Building a HAT (Hardware Attached on Top)
- Project 7: Organizing a Wikithon
- Project 8: Comparison of open data sources of cities
- Project 9: Develop a new application based on open data
Template for project proposals.
Student papers
- Sarah Hanna Fischer and Lisa Müllner: Ethical Issues of Open Medical Data
- Daniel Heger, Matthias Reisacher: Business Models in FLOSS
- Eva Jobst: Gender Gap on GitHub
- Michael König and Florian Ploier: Shenzhen and its comparison to the Silicon Valley
- Daniel Metzger and Dorin Postolache: Impact of Open Data in Selected Developing Countries
- Mark Peneder and Felix Walcher: Open Education Resources: Current Limitations and Challenges and its Usage in Developing Countries
- Mariya Popel and Renée Sophie Singer: FOSS and CC in Design
- Carlos Rodriguez and Onur Gürcay: Open-Source Software in Business and its Advantages & Disadvantages
- Lina Wang and Kristina Weinberger: Reasons for lack of diversity in open source: The case Katie Bouman
- Mohammad Zandpour: The Gender Gap on Wikipedia
Paper template
We provide a LaTeX template for the seminar papers.
Contact
Christoph Derndorfer and Lukas F. Lang
History
- March 16, 2020: Added student papers.
- January 31, 2020: Added Smart Plant Pot project info.
- January 26, 2020: Added links to repos.
- January 25, 2020: Added final project presentations.
- January 24, 2020: Added slides for lecture no. 9.
- November 26, 2019: Added slides for lecture no. 8.
- November 13, 2019: Added slides for lecture no. 6.
- November 5, 2019: Added slides for lecture no. 5.
- October 29, 2019: Added slides for lecture no. 4.
- October 22, 2019: Added slides.
- October 14, 2019: Added dates for group meetings and presentations.
- October 9, 2019: Added slides.
- October 8, 2019: Added project ideas.