Open Source Project

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

Given the learning outcomes of the "Master in Computer Science and Engineering" program, this course contributes to the development, acquisition and evaluation of the following learning outcomes:

• INFO 2.4-5
• INFO 4.2-3
• INFO 5.1, 5.3, 5.5
• INFO 6                               

Given the learning outcomes of the "Master [120] in Computer Science" program, this course contributes to the development, acquisition and evaluation of the following learning outcomes:

• SINF 2.4-5
• SINF 4.2-3
• SINF 5.1, 5.3, 5.5
• SINF 6  

At the end of the internship, the student will:

• Integrate in an open source community, respect the rules and interact with different stakeholders from this community ;
• Master the tools to effectively contribute to an open source project;
• Distinguish the issues of the choice of Open Source in an existing project;

After the internship, the student will write an article where it will be able to:

• Describe synthetically and specifies the objectives, scope and challenges of the open source project to which he contributed;
• Clarify his contribution to the project and to the positioning of this contribution relative to the whole project;
• Describe the technics, methods used in his work, and explain their relevance to the nature of the Open Source project;
• Take a critical look at the achievements of the internship;
• Describe how he used the time he devoted to this open source project.

After the internship, the student will:

• Present in summary form (eg a web page): The project to which he contributed, his contribution to this project and at least one aspect (technical or methodological) of the open source approach that applies particularly well to his contribution