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The lab work will be run on the Ubuntu Linux systems in the CS labs. During the intensive part of the course each student will use the same lab machine each day, allowing the machine to be customised to suit the project being worked on (for example, by installing extra libraries or other package dependencies).
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[These were the labs for 2016; expect something similar for 2018](#)
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## Introductory labs
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The two labs on the first day are meant to get you started with the idea of working with FOSS projects.
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* Lab 1: [Building tuxpaint](tuxpaint)
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## Finding projects
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There are a huge number of FOSS projects to choose from (certainly hundreds of thousands). If you don't know where to start looking to find one that suits you, then you may wish to browse through the project lists on one of these sites:
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* http://freecode.com/ (was Freshmeat.org)
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* http://gna.org/
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* http://github.com/
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* http://sourceforge.net/
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* http://savannah.gnu.org/
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* https://launchpad.net/
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