Practical Open Source Software Exploration Free Open Source Textbook
Can Professors Teach Open Source? The answer is a resounding yes. In fact, TeachingOpenSource.org has written a book that work pretty much in the same way as any other open source software project improvements, technically known as patches, are very much welcome.
The textbook has a foreword by Greg DeKoenigsberg, a Senior Community Architect at Red Hat. He was the founder and first chairman of the Fedora Project Board, the governance body for the Fedora Project, an open source software project.