This is intriguing. Would require a lot of consideration to grade them on their cultural anthropology learnings rather than their previous experience with contributing to open source. Huge equity issue in both first year CS and OS community. As you probably both know already.
@JMMaok @mhoye Definitely true. I recall someone I knew who was in Colorado State's online MBA program a while back saying that some of the most important lessons they learned were from coordinating team projects with classmates all around the globe, with different first languages, and at varying levels of technical proficiency...