Meta

The evolution of this course:

• random idea that popped into a student's head while eating dinner
• Facebook group
• Original course proposal (Google Doc)
• This site itself open-sourced on GitHub (feel free to fork and send pull request!)
• Notes from brainstorming session with Professor Rayside and a few SE 2014 students in Jan. 2012

Open-source projects

If you're looking for open-source projects to contribute to, check out

• Google Summer of Code (see also the 2011 projects list)
• UCOSP — Undergraduate Capstone Open-Source Project, an alternative to this course. Unfortunately, they can only accept 6-8 students from Waterloo as of 2012.
• GitHub — Host of many modern open-source libraries and tools, including Ruby on Rails, jQuery, and others