Revision as of 11:34, 9 September 2011

Purpose

To set up the communication tools that you will need to interact with the Open Source community and complete this course.

Set up a Seneca Wiki account.
- Create a User page for yourself on this wiki (example).
Create a pair of ssh keys (ssh-keygen).
Set up a FAS2 account.
- Create a User page for yourself on the Fedora wiki (example).
- Upload your public ssh key.
Connect to the Freenode IRC network.
- Choose a nick for yourself and register it.
- Join these channels:
  - #seneca
  - #fedora
  - #fedora-devel
- Observe who is in these channels and the conversations taking place.
- Chat with someone.
Set up a blog account.
- Configure the OpenSource@Seneca Planet to include your posts by adding your blog to the Planet CDOT Feed List.
Add an entry to the Winter 2011 SBR600 Participants page.
- Include a link to your Seneca wiki user page, your IRC nick, and your Learn ID.

Write a blog post which will appear on the OpenSource@Seneca Planet, containing:

An introduction. Tell us a bit about yourself.
A portion of an IRC conversation you've had with someone on a Fedora or Seneca IRC channel.
A link to your User page on the Seneca wiki.
A link to your User page on the Fedora wiki.

Note: don't just dump this stuff in a blog post, add some introductory text as well!

@@ Line 12: / Line 12: @@
 # Set up a Seneca Wiki account.
 #* Create a User page for yourself on [[Main Page|this wiki]] ([[User:Chris Tyler|example]]).
+# Create a pair of ssh keys (ssh-keygen).
 # Set up a FAS2 account.
 #* Create a User page for yourself on the [[:fedora:Main Page|Fedora wiki]] ([[:fedora:User:Ctyler|example]]).
+#* Upload your '''public''' ssh key.
 # Connect to the Freenode [[Irc|IRC]] network.
 #* Choose a nick for yourself and register it.