• Foreword
• Introduction to FOSS
• The Lay Of The Land
• On Being A Beginner
• Getting the Code: Source Code Management
• Building the Code: From Source to Executable
• Debugging the Code: Finding and Reporting Bugs
• Fixing the Code: Patches Welcome
• Explaining the Code: the Art of Documentation
• Expanding the Code: Adding New Features
• ReleaseEarlyReleaseOften
• Credits
• CaseStudySamba
• FOSSAndTheLaw
• FixingTheCodePatchesWelcome
• GettingStartedInAFOSSProject
• Glossary
• SourceCodeManagement
• Testing

(Assigned to: Chris Tyler)

# http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/PracticalOSSEngineering/TheLayOfTheLand
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# This chapter outline was split into two parts:
# - TheLayOfTheLand (this part), which will talk about how to 'scope out' a project/community and see what they're about. This will focus on communication.
# - OnBeingABeginner, which will focus on being "productively lost"

Outline...

* Global community
** The "Open" in "Open Source"
** What it means to work in the open, succeed in the open, and fail in the open
** Challenges
*** Language
*** Time
*** Ego
** The Synthetic 3rd Culture
** Qualities of a Community
*** Focus
*** Maturity and History
*** Type of Openness
*** Commercial Ties
*** Subgroups
*** Skills
*** Mentoring and training

* Learning the culture of the community
* Communicating
** Tools
*** Web sites
*** Wikis
*** Blogs and Planets
*** IRC
*** Mailing lists and Newsgroups
*** Repositories
**** Code as communication
* Getting Started
** Observing
*** Reading and Lurking
*** Learning the On-ramps
*** Finding a mentor (official or unofficial)
*** Gaining trust


== Supplement: Project List ==

We should be able to provide, as reference, a list of the projects who are working with TOS and have a strong onboarding program for students.  This reference can live online and be continually evolving. -- Should live at TOS.o -- use existing Mentor project? Or other?