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In this paper we present a synopsis of a Global Software (SW) Engineering class based on several years of experience of teaching jointly at San Francisco State University (SFSU), the University of Applied Sciences, Fulda University, Germany, and recently with Florida Atlantic University (FAU). This class uses numerous Free and Open Source Software tools and teaches FOSS development techniques. We define global SE practices as those used when the team members are distributed in terms of location and time, and hence do not meet regularly in person. Global SE practices have become a significant mode of SW development, especially in the development of large open source software projects. Over the course of teaching this class from 2004 till present we have published several papers [12, 13, 18, 19] describing this class and the development of techniques for measuring levels of participation within a small software development group. This paper is an adaptation of those previous papers specifically designed to draw attention to FOSS tools, philosophies and development techniques