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OCE ''Connections'' Grant
* Lukkas, Armen, Anthony - confirmed MozCo == Mozilla internships in CA==
* Request for 3 Lukkas, Armen, Anthony (Songbird) - confirmed Mozilla internships in CA* Mozilla is seeking three more interns
* 5 students doing AMO ext review in prep == Five Seneca Students Help Ensure Firefox Extensions are Ready for FF3 release - paid part-time positionsFirefox 3 ==
* CBC news coverageThe Firefox web browser can be customized and enhanced with powerful, easy-to-install 'extensions'. Extensions are one of the key factors in the browser's success. Mozilla has hired five Seneca students on a part-time basis to review and test extensions to ensure compatibility with the upcoming release of Firefox 3. == Two New Mozilla Development Courses Started == Two new professional option courses have been created to enable students to continue the development of projects started in the DPS909 (BSD) and OSD600 (CPA) ''Topics in Open Source Development'' courses. The ''Open Source Project'' courses, led by David Humphrey, are DPS911 and OSD700. == OCE ''Connections'' Grant == The Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) ''Connections'' program has provided a total of $14K in matching grants to support four team projects working on various Mozilla technologies. This funding has been used to purchase some equipment and time on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) compute farm. == Working with Brendan from DMA - DMA+Open Source ==
* 2 new courses on Moz dev - DPS911/OSD700 - take to new level== 21 node Build Farm (Try Server) ==
* Applied for == 3D in the Browser: C3DL and received $14K funding from OCE to support student projects in those coursesCATGames ==
* Working Cathy at GDC* Part-time hires* Collaboration with Brendan from DMA - DMA+Open Sourceother institutions
* 21 node Build Farm (Try Server)== CDOT Sets Up on First Floor of TEL Building ==
* CDOT space now has the use of nine cubicles on the first floor of the TEL building. Six of these cubicles have been set up for Mozilla development: four have quad-core, dual-screen Windows/Linux systems, and two have large- 9 screen Mac Mini systems. The remaining cubicleswill be used for the CATGeames project.
* More stuff than students - 6 fulltime positions== Demand for Open Source Students Outstrips Supply ==
* C3DL** Cathy at GDCMore demand than students - 6 fulltime positions unfilled
=== Links ===
* Grant from Mozilla - Press Release
* CBC news coverage
* CDOT web site
=== How to Connect to Get Involved with Open Source at Seneca ===
* FSOSS
* (Getting on IRC)
=== On the Radar ===
* OOo

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