Difference between revisions of "Winter 2008 OSD600 Weekly Schedule"

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Course introduction
Intro to open source
Intro to Mozilla project
- Mozilla Project Overview
- Community, Foundation, Corporation
- The Mozilla Manifesto
- Mozilla platform and technologies
Mozilla Communication Tools
- Web sites/Wikis
  - http://mozilla.org
  - http://developer.mozilla.org (DMO)
  - http://quality.mozilla.org (QMO)
- Planet Mozilla
- IRC

Readings/Resources
- "Cathedral and Bazaar" by Eric Raymond
- "Revolution OS" [film] (see also http://www.revolution-os.com/ or QA 76.9.A25 R68 2003)
- Mike Shaver discusses the Mozilla Manifesto [MP3]

TODO
- Create a blog (wordpress or blogspot or whatever) and create a feed category or tag called "open source"
- Read the Blog Guidelines for instructions on how to use your blog in the course
- Create an account on this wiki for yourself
- Create a personal wiki page on this wiki, and add a link for yourself to the People page. Your personal page should initially include your contact information and a link to your blog; as you progress through the course, update this page with information about your work.
- Add your blog feed and info to the Open Source@Seneca Planet List so that it appears in the OpenSource@Seneca Planet
- Write a blog posting containing your reaction to and reflections on "The Catederal and the Bazaar" and "Revolution OS".
- Start lurking on irc.mozilla.org - especially the #seneca and #developers channels (Note: to access the #seneca channel, you must be registered - type "/nickserv help" in your IRC client or refer to http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#registering for more information)
- IRC tutorial - http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/irctutorial.html#intro

Revision Control Systems (RCS)
- Introduction to RCS
- cvs, svn, hg
- Common concepts and tasks
  - Repository
  - Local Working Copy
  - RCS Changes (changesets) vs. Backups
  - Typical read-only activities: Checkout, Update, Log, Status
Using Make to build software
- Intro to Make
- Mozilla has over 50,000 Makefiles
Building Mozilla from Source
- Building Mozilla for the first time

Readings/Resources
- Getting started in Open Source projects, or "Learning to be at the festival" (on-line lecture) by David Humphrey (given at Mozilla24 in Stanford): Formats - mpg, ogg, mp4
- Two simple makefile examples
- How the Mozilla Build Works (on-line lecture) by Mozilla's J. Paul Reed
- Release Builds: from source tree to exe (on-line lecture) by Mozilla's Robert Helmer

TODO
- Complete all TODO items from Week 1
- Watch online lectures about the Mozilla build system.
- Practice creating a simple makefile
- Try performing a Debug Mozilla build on your home machine and blog about the experience
- Look at the Project List and Potential Projects pages and pick 3 projects on which you'd like to work--next week, you'll narrow this to just one. List them here along with your name so other students can see and groups can form.

TODO
- Do a Debug Mozilla build on your home machine and blog about the experience
- Finalize your project choice, form a group (if you are working in a group), and create a proper project page for your project in the Project List. See the full project instructions.
- Blog about your project selection and your plans for the next step.

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 * '''TODO'''
 ** Do a Debug Mozilla build on your home machine and blog about the experience
-** Finalize your project choice, form a group (if you are working in a group), and create a proper project page for your project in the [[Project List]].  See the full [[Fall 2007 Major Project|project instructions]].
+** Finalize your project choice, form a group (if you are working in a group), and create a proper project page for your project in the [[Project List]].  See the full [[Winter 2008 Major Project|project instructions]].
 ** Blog about your project selection and your plans for the next step.