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For all programs except the Masters of Computing, students must obtain
-a permission code from the Department of Computer Science
+a permission code from the School of Computer Science
office. Requests for a permission code should be emailed
to <a href="mailto:office@cs.anu.edu.au">office@cs.anu.edu.au</a>. You
should include details of any experience or expertise that may be
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The COMP8440 course may alternatively be taken as a non-accredited
-course. This is a cheaper option (the course fee for 2009 is $1750)
+course. This is a cheaper option (the course fee for 2010 is $1750)
and involves no assessment. A certificate of completion will be
awarded. The university will not provide any grading of students
performance in the course.
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-An online form for applying as a non-accredited student is available here:
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-Please have your credit card details available. If you have any enquiries
-about registering as a non-accredited student, please contact us at:
-<a href="comp8440@cs.anu.edu.au">comp8440@cs.anu.edu.au</a>.
+ An online form for applying as a non-accredited student will be available soon. In the meantime, please email <a href="mailto:comp8440@cs.anu.edu.au">comp8440@cs.anu.edu.au</a> if you are interested in participating as a non-accredited student.
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<h2>2010 course dates</h2>
<p>The 2010 COMP8440 course will run from Tuesday 6th April to
-Saturday 10th April. We will update this site with more information
-closer to the date of the course.
+Saturday 10th April. Please see the <a href="schedule.php">schedule page</a> for more details.
<p>You can also review any of the lecture notes or videos of the 2009
lectures on the <a href="lectures.php">lectures page</a>.
Discussion forum</a> which will be (semi-) regularly
monitored by the course staff.
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-<li>The <a href="schedule.php">2009 timetable</a> is available. The
- 2010 timetable will be similar, but with the main course centered
- around the 6th April to 10th April.
+<li>The <a href="schedule.php">2010 timetable</a> is now available.
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<li>Refreshments will be provided during the course
that page to get the FOSSD environment installed and running.
<p>Next, you should join the <a
-href="http://dubhe.anu.edu.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo">comp8440
+href="http://fossd.anu.edu.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo">comp8440
mailing list</a> using your ANU student email account. Note that you
will need to be able to receive email to that account while in the
lab. You will find that the email icon in the main menu bar of your
<p>In this lab you will also need to create a patch against your
chosen project, and submit that patch to the <a
-href="mailto:comp8440@dubhe.anu.edu.au">comp8440@dubhe.anu.edu.au</a>
+href="mailto:comp8440@fossd.anu.edu.au">comp8440@fossd.anu.edu.au</a>
mailing list. Then you should look for another students patch
submission for the same project apply their patch, and send back a
reply to them commenting on their patch.
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-<font color="#931515" size="+3">COMP8440: Lab Setup (2009)</font>
+<font color="#931515" size="+3">COMP8440: Lab Setup (2010)</font>
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<p>The course will utilise the new (in 2009) N115/N116 combined 40 place lab in the CSIT building. This lab has 40 machines each with 3.0GHz Pentium D CPUs, 2GB RAM, a 160GB hard disk and a 17" LCD monitor. The machines are networked onto a single VLAN with 100MBps ethernet.</p>
-<p>The machines in the lab are normally used by CS courses with a software image based on Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) Linux (from April, 2008). The machines are set to "network boot" and obtain their software image from a lab server. This image is not suitable for use by this course as it does not allow students to add their own packages, nor to gain superuser access in normal use.</p>
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-<p>The challenge has been to provide a lab environment where students can "own" the software installation on "their" machine in the lab, to be able to save that image to the course server and to be able to quickly restore it to another machine in the event of a hardware failure. We also need to be able to get the machines running with their normal image in a timely fashion as other classes will need to use the machines after the intensive part of our course is complete.</p>
+<p>The machines in the lab are normally used by CS courses with a
+software image based on Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) Linux (from October,
+2009). The machines are set to"network boot" and obtain their software
+image from a lab server. This image is not suitable for use by this
+course as it does not allow students to add their own packages, nor to
+gain superuser access in normal use.</p>
+
+<p>The challenge has been to provide a lab environment where students
+can "own" the software installation on "their" machine in the lab, to
+be able to save that image to the course server and to be able to
+quickly restore it to another machine in the event of a hardware
+failure. We also need to be able to get the machines running with
+their normal image in a timely fashion as other classes will need to
+use the machines after the intensive part of our course is
+complete.</p>
<p>To solve this requirement, we have set up an additional disk partition on each of the lab machines and set up additional network boot options to allow an encrypted filesystem on this partition to be the main (root) filesystem whilst the machines are being used by this course. The encrypted filesystem should prevent other lab users from accidentally or deliberately interfering with each FOSSD students setup.</p>
-<p>To speed up the installation for the first lab, we have pre-installed Ubuntu Intrepid, released in October, 2008, hence with release number 8.10. It is anticipated that Ubuntu will release their next stable release sometime during the week of the intensive part of the course. This release will be Jaunty with release number 9.04 (for April, 2009).</p>
+<p>To speed up the installation for the first lab, we have pre-installed Ubuntu Karmic, released in October, 2009, hence with release number 9.10. It is anticipated that Ubuntu will release their next stable release sometime during the week of the intensive part of the course.</p>
<h2>Initial Setup</h2>
-<p>Each machine in the N115/N116 lab has already had its disk repartitioned to include the new 85GB partition as /dev/sda8 and an initial copy of the "master" image for FOSSD 2009, based on the Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) Linux distribution.</p>
+<p>Each machine in the N115/N116 lab has already had its disk
+ repartitioned to include the new 85GB partition as /dev/sda8 and an
+ initial copy of the "master" image for FOSSD 2010, based on the
+ Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10) Linux distribution.</p>
<p>For the first (initial) setup, you will need to log into the machine whilst it is booted in the normal lab environment.</p>
<li>There is a "Pidgin" Internet Relay Chat/Messenger icon to start "pidgin"</li>
<li>Firefox has some useful plugins added: Add Block Plus (ABP); Zotero and Scrapbook</li>
<li>Firefox hompage is set to our COMP8440 course page</li>
-<li>under "Places" there is a link to your files on the "dubhe" FOSSD course server</li>
+<li>under "Places" there is a link to your files on the "fossd" FOSSD course server</li>
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<h2>FOSSD Lab Server</h2>
-<p>A dedicated file server has been set up for the FOSSD course for 2009. This server has the DNS name "dubhe.anu.edu.au" and is accessible from most anywhere on the Internet. You can log into this server from anywhere using Secure SHell (ssh), your standard ANU UniID and associated password. Please do not run large (CPU-intensive) jobs on this machine as it will be used heavily during the course for backups etc.</p>
+<p>A dedicated file server has been set up for the FOSSD course for 2010. This server has the DNS name "fossd.anu.edu.au" and is accessible from most anywhere on the Internet. You can log into this server from anywhere using Secure SHell (ssh), your standard ANU UniID and associated password. Please do not run large (CPU-intensive) jobs on this machine as it will be used heavily during the course for backups etc.</p>
<p>Also, although this server has more or less unrestricted access to the Internet, please do not use this to run peer-to-peer applications (unless that is a part of your chosen Open Source project) or in any other way abuse access to this machine and it's Internet connection.</p>
lab, and the majority of the <a href="assessment.php">course
assessment</a> is based on the lab work.<p>
-The lab work will be run on the Ubuntu Linux systems in the DCS
+The lab work will be run on the Ubuntu Linux systems in the CS
labs. During the intensive part of the course each student will use
the same lab machine each day, allowing the machine to be customised
to suit the project being worked on (for example, by installing extra
<li>The project should be welcoming to new contributors. You may be
able to judge this by looking at the projects mailing list archives.
<li>The project should have several active contributors
-<li>The project should be usable on the Ubuntu systems in the DCS lab
+<li>The project should be usable on the Ubuntu systems in the CSIT Linux labs
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Of course, the project should also be something that you find
<li><a href="lectures/course_introduction.odp">course_introduction.odp</a></li>
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+Note that the links to the videos in this page are to the 2009 lectures. The 2010 course will have some updated lecture material, but the general structure of the course will remain the same.
<h2>Lecture 1: Introduction to FOSS</h2>
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-<font color="#931515" size="+3">COMP8440: Schedule</font>
+<font color="#931515" size="+3">COMP8440: 2010 Schedule</font>
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The course will be divided into three phases
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-<li><b>2nd April - Information Evening</b>. On Thursday the 2nd
-of April starting at 7pm there will be an introductory evening for
+<li><b>24th March - Information Evening</b>. On Wednesady the 24th
+of March starting at 7pm there will be an introductory evening for
students. The course material will be outlined, and students will be
given some reading material that should be studied before the main
course begins. The main presentation for the information evening will
be recorded so that students who are not in Canberra on that day can
see the material.
-<li><b>14th to 18th April - Main course</b>. The main course will be
-from the Tuesday to the Saturday (inclusive) in the week after
-Easter. The course will run from 9am to 6pm each day (with breaks).
+<li><b>6th to 10th April - Main course</b>. The main course will be
+from the Tuesday to the Saturday (inclusive), in the week after Easter.
+The course will run from 9am to 6pm each day (with breaks).
-<li><b>25th April, 2nd May, 9th May</b>. Laboratory sessions will be
+<li><b>17th April, 24th April, 1st May</b>. Laboratory sessions will be
offered between 2pm and 5pm on the three Saturdays following the main
course. These sessions are intended for students completing the
assessment part of the course.
<li><b>Assessment period</b>. After the main course is over, the
students are expected to prepare materials for assessment, which will
-be due by Friday the 22nd of May. Details on assessment options will
-be made available on this website closer to the start of the course.
+be due by Friday the 14th of May. Details on assessment options are available on the <a href="assessment.php">assessment page</a>.
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<h2>Detailed Schedule</h2>
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