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====== FreeBSD Developer Summit OS Course Working Group ======
Or... //Teaching an operating system course with %%FreeBSD%%//.

May 1th (Thursday), room will be announced when it is known.

===== Overview =====

The purpose of this May 2012 developer summit working group session is to discuss teaching undergraduate- and graduate-level operating system courses using %%FreeBSD%%.  Several members of the academic community already teach such courses -- others would like to create them, and more generally encourage the teaching of OS courses using %%FreeBSD%%.  Further, we have industrial consumers of %%FreeBSD%% who would love to see more graduating students with a background in operating systems, especially %%FreeBSD%%.  Finally, we have current students involved in teaching and research, Google Summer of Code, etc.  We hope to bring these groups together to identify goals, requirements, methodology, and resources to work towards a common teaching platform that might allow coursework that might be shared across universities. We are also interested in alternative outlets for this material -- for example, a %%YouTube%% lecture series on operating systems and teaching exercises useful outside of a traditional university context.

If you would like to participate, contact the chairperson below and CC devsummit@. You will be then added to this page. Please include a list of things you want to talk about or the areas you are interested in. This helps in planning the session and to bring people together with common interests.

===== Goals =====

  * Discuss goals of teaching operating systems at the undergraduate/graduate level
  * Identify universities already teaching %%FreeBSD%%-based operating systems courses
  * Identify existing %%FreeBSD%%-based teaching material (books, slides, exercises, platforms)
  * Consider potential paths to improving shared, community-provided teaching material
  * Brainstorm teaching exercises and their technical dependencies
  * Discuss how we could make %%FreeBSD%% a better operating system for teaching about/on/with
  * Consider other less standard outlets for OS courses, including %%YouTube%%/iTunes/etc

===== Attendees =====

^ Name ^ Affiliation ^ Topics of interest ^ Other notes ^
| [[/RobertWatson|RobertWatson]] | University of Cambridge | Developing a new masters-level OS course at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory | As an undergrad, took CMU's OS course, and it clearly influenced what I do today! |
| [[/GeorgeNevilleNeil|GeorgeNevilleNeil]] |  |  |  |
| [[/BenedictReuschling|BenedictReuschling]] | %%FreeBSD%% Project, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany | teaching, creating/sharing course materials, adapting courses [[http://cs.anu.edu.au/student/comp8440/index.php|like this one]] to *BSD |  |
| [[/BjoernZeeb|BjoernZeeb]] |  |  | May join session late |
| [[/MikeKarels|MikeKarels]] | %%McAfee%% |  |  |
| Ermal Luçi | pfSense |  |  |
| Warner Losh | %%FusionIO%% |  |  |
| [[/DruLavigne|DruLavigne]] | iX | aggregating which %%FreeBSD%% courses are available, courseware creation, video courses |  |

===== Results =====

Notes from the session are here: http://openetherpad.org/M5qWdddSkw

Brainstorming projects/modules section of notes:

**schedulers:**

* graphing

* benchmarking

* round robin scheduler

* I/O priority boost experiment

* detecting/fixing priority inversion  (why theory matters)

**filesystems:**

* GEOM: I/O tracing, replay, add dtrace probes, RAID module, integrity checking module on a memory disk, write aggregation module, I/O scheduler, module for content storage (e.g. dedup-ish)

* stackable filesystems: add access control, encryption

* fuse: simple inode based fs + optimization project, distributed fs?

* specialized filesystems: e.g. does one thing well

**security:**

* MAC framework: implement a policy

* Capsicum-ize an app

* security auditing

* write IDS

* write exploits

**networking:**

* netgraph: write error correction

* tap/tun: write a simple VPN or simple encapsulation layer

* write a firewall

* implement a simple network protocol

* write a device driver

* tweak packet loss properties

* network tracing

**Action Items:**

* find existing materials (doc people, master students can help in prepping material): Kirk, Ken, Backman,

* create a repo e.g. freebsd.org/teaching that credits content creators

* VM generation tools (multiple VMs using templates), nested VM support

* develop teaching plans, homework assignments, reading lists, how to structure the course (e.g. template for 1 week course, semester course, etc.)

* generate ebook and CD from selected modules (ideal for e-learning)

* gather contacts, arrange guest lectures (in person and by video)

* record sample lectures on !Youtube channel

* make modules easily translatable

* identify universities to partner in initiative e.g. Darmstadt (bcr)

* recognize younger generation's learning style, show course's relevance to industry

* teaser talk for %%EuroBSDCon%% (get students interest)