Week 7: Extra Credit Assignment: Watch, Critique, and Reflect

Purpose:

(WHAT to do, and WHY are we doing this?)

In this assignment, you will watch, reflect on, and critique three open source related lectures. This is intended to give you a broader view of open source. It's an opportunity for you to reflect on what kind of side project you will start/join in.

Instructions:

(HOW to)

• Carefully watch the following three TED lectures:
  1. Can Open Source Be Traced To The 17th-Century?
  2. Salvatore Iaconesi: What happened when I open-sourced my brain cancer
  3. Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government
• Summarize the ideas presented in all three of the talks.
  • This can be in the form of paragraphs, a drawing, a video of yourself critiquing the ideas, a story, a poem, or even a song.
• Compare and contrast your own experiences with regard to the ideas presented in the talks.
• Reflect on what ideas you'd want to see realized, and how you could possibly make that happen by open sourcing them.