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* Course introduction
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** '''Blog''' on your reactions to the readings for this week, and also introduce yourself.
 
** '''Blog''' on your reactions to the readings for this week, and also introduce yourself.
 
** Begin learning how to use [[Irc|IRC]] for communication.  We'll cover this in detail next week, but it's better to get started early.
 
** Begin learning how to use [[Irc|IRC]] for communication.  We'll cover this in detail next week, but it's better to get started early.
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== Week 2 (Sept 14) - Collaborative and Community Development Practices ==
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* Open, collaborative, geographically dispersed development and the web
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* The function and value of community
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** Mozilla Foundation (MoFo)
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** Mozilla Corporation (MoCo), [http://www.oxymoronical.com/experiments/mozmap/ map of offices/individuals]
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** Mozilla Community
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*** Other companies or institutions working on Mozilla technology
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*** Individual Contributors
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* Where can the Mozilla community be found? [[Overview of Mozilla Communication]]
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** IRC - [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Education/Learning/Irc Intro to Internet Relay Chat (IRC)]
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** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Blogs] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(blog) Planets]
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*** How to blog?
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*** How do people use blogs?
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*** [http://planet.mozilla.org Planet Mozilla]
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*** [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/~chris.tyler/planet/ OpenSource@Seneca Planet]
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*** [http://education.mozilla.org/planet Mozilla Education Planet]
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** Twitter
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*** Use of Twitter in conjunction with blogging
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** Wikis
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*** [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki Seneca Course Wiki]
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*** [http://developer.mozilla.org Mozilla Developer Center (MDC)]
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*** [http://wiki.mozilla.org Mozilla Wiki (wikimo)]
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*** Intro to course wiki
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**** "Yes, you can edit it!"
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**** Common Editing tasks, History, Reverting changes
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**** Watches, [[Special:Recentchanges|Recent Changes]]
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**** Comparing selected versions (cf. diff)
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**** [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Help:Editing Editing help]
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** Public, project-wide status calls
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** Mailing Lists
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** Bugzilla
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** The "Tree"
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*** Mercurial (hg)
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*** Tinderbox
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* Project discussion
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* '''Readings/Resources'''
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* [[Mozilla Community]] (on-line lecture) by Mozilla's [https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Beltzner Mike Beltzner]
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* '''Getting started in Open Source projects, or "Learning to be at the festival"''' (on-line lecture) by David Humphrey (given at [http://www.mozilla24.com/en-US/ Mozilla24 in Stanford]): Formats - [http://videos.mozilla.org/mozilla24/1-16_david.mpg mpg], [http://videos.mozilla.org/mozilla24/1-16_david.ogg ogg], [http://videos.mozilla.org/mozilla24/1-16_david.mp4 mp4]
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* [http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/06/academic-source-code-dust-up-symptom-of-cs-education-ills.ars Ars Technica article on the value of academic blogging and open source]
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* [http://www.vimeo.com/3914346 Code Swarm Community Commits Visualizations]
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* [[Learning Collaborative Development Lab Fall 2009]]
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* '''TODO'''
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** Ensure all TODO items from week 1 are '''completed'''
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** Create Wiki Accounts on MDC and wikimo
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** Consider creating an account on Twitter to use in conjunction with your blog
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** Dial-into one of the Mozilla Status calls happening this week, and blog about the experience
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** Join at least one Mozilla Mailing list
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** '''Comment''' in at least one other student's '''blog''' with your feedback to what they wrote. <b>Reminder: Comments have to be approved for them to be be shown on your blog. Check your blog settings.</b>
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** Watch online lectures for this week about open source community, blog your reactions.
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** Complete this week's [[Learning Collaborative Development Lab Fall 2009|lab]] by '''Friday'''.

Revision as of 10:39, 14 September 2009

Introduction

The fall is broken into two parts. First, general open source and and community (i.e., Mozilla) specific skills and ideas are taught. Students learn how to deal with the tools, techniques, and practices of their chosen project and its community. Second, students are taught about extensibility models, and how to write Add-ons and Extensions.

Part I – Essential Open Source Development Skills and Concepts

Week 1 (Sept 7) Course introduction

  • TODO
    • Complete readings and watching/listening to this weeks resources.
    • 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 and the
    • 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
    • Add your blog feed and info to the Open Source@Seneca Planet List so that it appears in the OpenSource@Seneca Planet
    • Blog on your reactions to the readings for this week, and also introduce yourself.
    • Begin learning how to use IRC for communication. We'll cover this in detail next week, but it's better to get started early.


Week 2 (Sept 14) - Collaborative and Community Development Practices

  • Open, collaborative, geographically dispersed development and the web
  • The function and value of community
    • Mozilla Foundation (MoFo)
    • Mozilla Corporation (MoCo), map of offices/individuals
    • Mozilla Community
      • Other companies or institutions working on Mozilla technology
      • Individual Contributors
  • Project discussion
  • TODO
    • Ensure all TODO items from week 1 are completed
    • Create Wiki Accounts on MDC and wikimo
    • Consider creating an account on Twitter to use in conjunction with your blog
    • Dial-into one of the Mozilla Status calls happening this week, and blog about the experience
    • Join at least one Mozilla Mailing list
    • Comment in at least one other student's blog with your feedback to what they wrote. Reminder: Comments have to be approved for them to be be shown on your blog. Check your blog settings.
    • Watch online lectures for this week about open source community, blog your reactions.
    • Complete this week's lab by Friday.
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