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OpenChain Curriculum
The OpenChain Curriculum is designed to help organizations meet the training and process requirements of the OpenChain Specification. Version 1 of the slides are available now under CC-0 licensing to allow everyone to use, study, share and improve the material.
The slides for version 1 of the OpenChain specification are available in PDF format:
They are also available in Powerpoint format to allow editing and adjustments:
The working slides for future updates can be found here. These slides are actively edited and should not be used as part of your confirmation process for the OpenChain Specification:
Curriculum Development Notes
2016/9/19 meeting
OpenChain Curriculum Version 1 is now available. Thanks to everyone for their contributions as we iterated, with special thanks for large-scale revisions from Gary and exceptional review, adjustment and refinement from Nathan. Slide here:
https://1drv.ms/p/s!AsXJVqby5kpnhjz7p9yryf8MJUPJ
The slides are divided into 8 chapters with a “Check Your Understanding” at the end of each chapter
The slides will be formally launched at LinuxCon Europe in October on the 5th and we will have a 90 minute deep dive on the content -Answers to “Check Your Understanding” will be expanded in a later “handbook” for trainers with a projected release date around December, with work on that starting during our October deep-dive in LinuxCon Europe -Discussion just opened with the Linux Foundation about hosting the “Check Your Understanding” questions and answers as a free online test in the future
Action item:
There is now a general request for everyone to check the slides to ensure correct terminology or further simplification of language, with a deadline of 30th September for all changes, which may take the form of direct edits or just adding comments to the slides.
2016/8/15 meeting
Due to work commitments and vacation the first draft has been pushed out to September. Still on target to release draft in October.
Call for everyone to assist with refining the existing 177 slides into ~100 slides with a few bullet point “check your understanding” questions to end each chapter
Will create a new template once chapters are complete for a coherent look
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2016/7/18 meeting, current plan is to:
Each chapter is substantially complete. We currently have around 194 slides that need to be refined into about 100 slides for circa 3 hour delivery.
We will “be brave” in condensing material to make it as simple as possible, so everyone should feel free to jump in and condense and/or simplify language.
Where content is deleted from slides we will move it into slide notes to ensure presenters can have context. This is because we cannot assume a level of knowledge for the reader/presenter. We need to facilitate everything from low to high.
We need to add “check your understanding” to most chapters (see reference material from Chapter 7). This will ensure each module can work as a stand-alone mini-segment. For the same reason it would be ideal if each chapter could start with a high-level summary.
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Each chapter should end up being somewhere between 8 and 10 slides including the “Check Your Understanding” slide. Please feel free to edit the content of any chapter and hide any slide you think is unnecessary. We can also add blank placeholder slides for individual company processes, to both show that we expect companies to customise, and to help underline that our curriculum material alone is not enough for a solid process.
2016/6/20 meeting, current plan is to:
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The slides are currently split into 12 “chapters” and we will add a one slide “check your understanding” mini-test to end each chapter
We will assign one “chapter” to each explicit OpenChain Curriculum volunteer for this editing process. Coincidentally we have twelve volunteers:
Dave Marr
Jilayne Lovejoy
Kate Stewart
Ramesh Jain
Shane Coughlan
Tom Arcidiacono
Gary O'Neall
Hung Chang
Catharina Maracke
Arnold Niessen
Mark Radcliffe
Nathan Kumagai
The process will be to adjust/hide slides inside each chapter as needed to refine the material, and then to add a one slide “check your understanding” quiz.
The combination of the 12 “check your understanding“ mini-test slides will make up our first OpenChain test material
We will create a simple mapping of Curriculum slides to the Specification
We will add master slide text that this Curriculum material alone is not enough for compliance
We will add placeholder slides for individual company processes
We will create a direct link to each chapter to make editing easier