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The following message has also previously been sent each student registered for the course: We will have 8 presentations on Nov. 26 each taking 20 min including questions. The format will be like a conference with 4 contributions before a 20 min break followed by the last 4. Starting as usual at 0915, this means we will end at 1215.

Practical matters: The presentations will be given in the order they appear in the Wiki. Remenber that as a rule of thumb, one slide typically takes about 2 min to cover. Leaving 5 min for questions and comments, this means no more than 8-10 slides. No grades will be announced before the final oral exam on Dec. 8.

We are not too far from the end this semester. We have two possible dates for the oral exam - Dec. 8 or 11. Each of you will then have 30 min. According to ifi adm, there should be no collisions with other exams those days. However, if anyone in spite of this has two orals the same day, wewill schedule you accordingly. We take a vote between these dates in the class on Thursday Nov. 12th.

Then remember you must hand in your projects on the Wiki by Nov. 19 and present them on the 26th!

We just got word of symptoms of influenza in the family of tomorrow's presenter. Therefore there will be changes in the lecture tomorrow, November, 5th. We are still working on a replacement programme. Please note that the lecture will take place as announced.

The comments from the supervisors to the mid-term evaluation of your project assignments are now ready. The students will find these on the comments-page of their assignment in the internal course wiki. Regarding the project assignments, please consider the basic structure and elements on the main page of the internal course wiki.

The class tomorrow will go as planned. Prodromos confirms that he will give his lecture on the theory of commons-based peer production (1 hr). The last two hours will be used for mid-term review of projects as scheduled.

To compensate for the unfortunate cancellation of Prodromos' lecture on Oct. 15, he will now give that lecture on Oct. 29 - see detailed teaching plan. Initially, there was no class for this date due to the student event dagen@ifi. But this rescheduling is the best solution we can find and we hope you all will be able to attend. The lecture will be given in the room Alfa/Omega at the Norwegian Computing Centre one floor above our usual lecture room.

We are sorry that the presentation about Intellectual property rights in a modern world could not be presented due to technical problems. A network problem in England caused that the planned video transmission could not be performed. Instead we presented Experiences with the peer production model in the public sector at the example of the DIGEKS project. We will inform you how to incorporate today's lecture at a later stage of the course.

A change has been made to the timing of the mid-term project reviews. They will now all take place on Oct. 22, so all of you will get the same time to prepare - see the "detailed teaching plan". For guidelines on the mid-term review se the course Wiki.

Do note: Students are required to provide the initial project description into the wiki latest by September 28th, 2009, 4pm. Students not complying to this will be shut out from the course. Please take a look at the course wiki which now includes updated details on the project assignment.

Thursday 24/9 will Petter Reinholdtsen - http://www.hungry.com/~pere/ - talk about "Free software development - community and technology". Petter is a veteran free software developer and will give us an inside account of how free software is developed.

Your tasks are now to: 1) Write a short biography of yourself on a separate page in the course Wiki and 2) Define your project jointly with you collaborators (max 3 students per project) also in the Wiki giving title and a short, rough outline of what this is about.

We now recognize that several of you have not had access to the Wiki until today, so we give you the following deadline: Complete both the biography and the project outline by Sept. 10 and we will go through them during the lecture on that date.

This is a newly established non-technical course in open source, open collaboration and innovation. You will not be required to do any programming unless you specifically want to do so - see course description. Open source software development is the theme of INF 5750

The first lecture - 0915-12 am on Aug. 27 in room 3A Informatics building - will give you an overview of what we will be doing. Look through the recent book by David Bollier to get a popular introduction to some main themes. Looking forward to seeing you, Nils