“Free and open source software (FOSS) is only beginning to find
a foothold in computer science departments in North America. FOSS
tools may be used in teaching or be the subject of research or
special committees, but few departments include courses that
introduce students to the FOSS community. As a result, when North
Carolina State University created a FOSS graduate course in the
2008 spring semester, it turned to Red Hat to find an instructor
with a suitable background of FOSS involvement and university
teaching experience. Community manager Greg DeKoenigsberg
recommended performance tools engineer Will Cohen, who now looks
back at the experience with an eye to how what he and his students
learned might help other instructors…”