DPS909 & OSD600 Fall 2019

Week 1

• Course introduction
  • DPS909
  • OSD600
  • How to be successful in this course

• Labs
  • Weekly labs, typically done in class
  • Labs are due on the Friday of the week they are assigned by midnight
  • Marked using Pass/Fail scheme
  • All labs must be completed to pass the course
  • Lab 1 is available now

• Releases
  • 4 releases, some with multiple bugs/PRs required, including participating in Hacktoberfest 2019
  • Due Dates: Sept 20, Oct 31, Nov 20, Dec 6
  • Chance to work on real code, real projects
  • Big learning curve, lots of time required
  • Amazing chance to gain experience, network, build your skills and resume
  • Work with new and emerging technologies, gain exposure to tech outside the classroom

• Discussion/Readings
  • Copyright (Copyright in Canada video)
    • IANAL
    • Who created it, "owns" it.
    • Set of exclusive rights granted to the work's creator
    • "The right to copy," to produce or reproduce a work or substantial portion thereof
    • Copyright is automatic when a work is created, you don't have to register it.
    • Copyright in Canada
    • Copyright Guide
    • In a software project, there can be many copyright holders (e.g., many contributors), or all contributors may assign their copyright to the project (e.g., CLA, which we'll cover later)

• What is Open Source?
  • The Open Source Definition
  • Microsoft buys GitHub for 7.5 Billion - "We're all in on open source"
    • https://twitter.com/asynchio/status/1082702841964244992
  • Julia Evans, "How to teach yourself hard things"

Week 2

• Blogging
  • Add bio/profile info as you feel comfortable, including links to GitHub, social media, etc.
  • Blog Post Tips:
    • Use blog post titles that help a reader (or Google searcher) to know whether this is useful info to them
    • Include links: a blog should connect different resources and ideas through your experience and learning
    • Write in sections. Try to avoid a wall of text, with only a single paragraph. Consider using sub-headings, shorter paragraphs
    • Use formatting for source code.
  • One good source of blog posts on open source and software development is Hacker News. Some recent examples to look at for style:
    • https://css-tricks.com/how-to-contribute-to-an-open-source-project/
    • https://antoinevastel.com/javascript/2019/09/09/improving-obfuscator.html
    • https://localghost.dev/2019/09/everything-i-googled-in-a-week-as-a-professional-software-engineer/
    • https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2019/09/08/taskbar-latency-and-kernel-calls/

• Licenses
  • Rights, privileges, responsibilities, etc. applicable to someone other than the work's creator
  • "Terms and Conditions"
  • These must be granted by a copyright holder

• No License
  • What can you do with code you find that has no license?
  • what can I, can't I do?

• Proprietary Licenses
  • Spotify End User Agreement
  • Microsoft Windows
  • iOS 12 (pdf)

• Public Domain
  • SQLite, which is now used by literally everybody, see http://www.sqlite.org/famous.html
  • Unlicense

• BSD License
  • Family of Licenses, including 2-Clause BSD, 3-Clause BSD (aka New BDS), 4-Clause BSD
  • "Why you should use a BSD style license for your Open Source Project"
  • BSD Licenses code is usually compatible with other open/closed code, when you want to mix them.
  • Example software projects licensed under the BSD License:
    • Many Google Projects, including V8, Chromium, Go
    • D3.js
    • Django
    • nginx
    • Vi
  • Summary:
    • You need to retain the license and copyright notice
    • You can use it commercially or non-commercially (privately)
    • You can distribute it freely
    • You can modify it freely

• Discussion of projects found for Lab 1
• Lab 2
• Release 0.1 will be released this week