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Introduction to Information Technology

This course aims to help learners locate the position of information technology and its purpose and utilization in context of God’s work of building His Kingdom through giving Christian or Non-Christian IT engineers with inspiration for inventing new technology. This course especially do this by introducing historical development and advancement of open source developer community.

Instruction

Learners are advised to watch video, read the week's textbook, and then think and write answers to the questions of the week's test.

Textbook

This course uses writings from Eric Raymond as textbook.

Week 1

A Brief History of Hackerdom

Week 2,3

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Week 4,5

Homesteading the Noosphere

Week 6,7

The Magic Cauldron

Week 8,9

Revenge of the Hackers

Lesson

Week 1

Revolution OS (GNU, Linux, FOSS)

video

Week 2

The Code: Story of Linux documentary

video

Week 3

Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary

video

Week 4

How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too)

video

Week 5

Corporate Open Source Anti-patterns

video

Week 6

Achieving Massive Open Source Project Adoption

video

Week 7

Overcoming barriers to open source adoption in the public sector

video

Week 8

Open Source Adoption in the Enterprise

video

Week 9

See why Microsoft loves Linux and Open Source

video

More to read

Bye-bye Ballmer, hello open source? Microsoft's upcoming options by Simon Phipps

Open Government by O'Reilly Media

Open Source Guides by Github

Discussion

Ask HN: Why don't more open-source projects monetize? by Hacker News