| Week | Date | Discussion Topics | Required Reading (before class) | Homework/Assignments | Additional Resources | |
| 0 | Sep 4 | Climate Change | Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe | Summer Assignment | Reviews: Denis Hayes,
Mariana Gosnell (NYT) |
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| 1 | Sep 9,11 | Open Source Everywhere | Thomas Goetz, Open Source Everywhere, Wired 11.11, Nov. 2003 | Summer Assignment Follow up | ||
| 2 | Sep 16,18 | Wikipedia: Open source knowledge | Roy Rosenzweig, Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past, JAH 2006, 117-146 | Research Assignment: How good/bad is Wikipedia? | - Jimmy Wales TED talk,
- Jimmy Wales on how to use Wikipedia, - Journal data to be posted to Wikipedia |
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| 3 | Sep 23,25 | Free Software | Richard Stallman, Free software, free society: selected essays of Richard M. Stallman Boston: GNU Press, 2002, pp 1-70.
NOTE: Friday's class will meet in the Phelan Room in the Library |
- WSIS Video (15min) - Free Software Song |
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| 4 | Sep 30, Oct 1 | Open Source Software | - Open Source Initiative - Fogel, What is free software - Perens Resigns OSI - ESR Responds to Stallman |
- Open Source Definition
- Perens Video - Open source history - 'Bill Gates talks about free software' |
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| 5 | Oct 7,9 | Free Culture File Sharing |
Lawrence Lessig, Free culture NY: Penguin, 2004, Intro & Part I, Piracy Lessig, Part II, Property. |
Essay Assignment: Copyright Law | Lessig TED talk | |
| 6 | Oct 14,16 | Threats to Free Culture The Eldred Case |
Lawrence Lessig, Free culture NY: Penguin, 2004 Part III (Puzzles, 175-209)
Part IV (Balances, 210-256) |
Campus File Sharing Trinity Network Policies |
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| 7 | Oct 21,23 | Campus copyright policies (Guest: Bryan Adams) Creative Commons |
Lawrence Lessig, Free culture NY: Penguin, 2004, Conclusion (pp. 257-307) Creative Commons |
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| 8 | Oct 28,30 | Open source economics |
Y. Benkler & H. Nissenbaum, Commons-based peer production and virtue,
J. Political Philosophy, 14(4), 394-419, 11/06.
D. Riehle, The economic motivation of open source software, IEEE Computer, vol. 40, no. 4 (April 2007). Page 25-32. |
Assignment: Op Ed Article | Benkler TED talk | |
| 9 | Nov 4,6 | Open Source Government | Future of OS in Government
Obama Administration View |
Term Paper Assignment | WH Live on-line Chat
The President's Never Ending Virtual Town Hall |
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| 10 | Nov 11,13 | Open source science | NYT: Open source practices for biotech
Patel et al., Ending Africa's Hunber |
- Michael Pollan, Open source food and genetic engineering
- Hessel, Pimp my genome - Endy, Open source biology |
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| 11 | Nov 18,20 | Software Freedom Week | W: 5:00 PM Cinestudio Documentary: Revolution OS
Th: 7:30 PM Leslie Hawthorn, 7:30 PM, Washington Room (PDF) F: No Class |
Assignment: Software Freedom Week | ||
| 12 | Nov 25,27 | Thanksgiving Recess | No classes | |||
| 13 | Dec 2,4 | Open Education: MIT's Open Course Ware
OE: Rice's Connexions Project |
OpenCourseWare: Building a Culture of Sharing
Chapter 14, in Opening Up Education
Challenges and Opportunities for the Open Education Movement: A Connexions Case Study Chapter 15, in Opening Up Education |
Assignment: Open Education at Trinity (optional) | ||
| 14 | Dec 9,11 | TBA Student Presentations |
Friday will be an extended class |