Facebook Open Academy
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Facebook Open Academy program promotes the collaboration between universities and open source organizations. Teams of Computer Science students work together in projects mentored by OSS community contributors. Wikimedia participated in the 2014 edition.
Evaluation
- This was our first participation in this program, and we obtained mixed results. This program is very different than GSoC or FLOSS OPW, the dedication of mentors might be even more demanding, and the results in terms of code produced might be dubious. On the other hand, from the point of view of introducing remarkable Computer Science students into open source and collaborative development, the program is very valuable. The results change significantly from project to project, so it is difficult to establish conclusions.
Check the evaluations of the mentors and the org admin at Evaluate Wikimedia's participation in Facebook Open Academy.
Timeline
The rough timeline is:
- December 2013 - January 2014: project planning and creation of teams.
- February 7th - 9th (Friday-Sunday), 2014: "Code Sprint" at Facebook HQ in Men-lo Park.
- February - May/June 2014: development.
This program involves different universities from different countries following different school calendars. This is why the dates are more flexible altogether.
Projects
- Projects must link to their main project page
- Mentors and Students must link to their user pages and identify their location
- Status must mark the main project milestones as
 Done:
- team formed: mentors and students identified, project page created, communication channels agreed
- project started: goals defined, tasks distributed, everybody in charge of something
- monthly reports: starting in January, to be integrated in Wikimedia's monthly report
- project ended, completed or not, including a final evaluation
- #Bug must link to the tracking Bugzilla report.
| Project | Mentors | Students | Status | #Bug |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distributed cron replacement | bug 57613 | |||
| Cassandra backend for distributed round-trip test server, wiki start page, repository | 10 students from Tokyo, San Diego, Illinois, Princeton, MIT | In progress | repo, issues | |
| Flow "Thanks" button |
|
bug 61930 | ||
| OpenBadges and Persona support for MediaWiki |
|
bug 60064 | ||
| Abstracting the Education Program extension |
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bug 56325 |