DPS909 and OSD600 Fall 2014 Notes

Introduction

• Course introduction
• Question: What is Open Source? Why work on Open Source as a student?
  • I studied business and programming, not English. I still can't find a job
  • The Secret to Hiring Great Developers
  • https://twitter.com/jeresig/status/33968704983138304
  • Facebook open source in 2014
  • Facebook on Github
• Success in this course requires:
  • Willingness to be lost and not panic
  • Curiosity
  • Being driven, persistence
  • Willingness to ask for help
  • Willingness to give others help
  • Independent learning
  • Doing more, much more, than the bare minimum
• What are Seneca and Seneca students capable of accomplishing? Some examples
  • Audio Data API, Pointerlock, Gamepad API
    • https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/03/18/mozilla-and-unity-bring-unity-game-engine-to-webgl/
    • https://developer.mozilla.org/ms/demos/detail/bananabread
  • WebVTT
    • Example

• Intro to open source
  • Proprietary Licenses, EULAs
    • Microsoft
    • Apple, Richard Dreyfuss reads the iTunes EULA
    • Skype
  • Open Licenses
    • BSD
    • GPL
    • LGPL
    • MIT
    • Apache
    • MPL

• TODO
  • Create an account on this wiki for yourself (note: requires manual creation)
  • Add your info to the Fall 2014 Open Source Students page.
  • 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
  • Pick one Closed and one Open license/EULA, and read them from start to finish. Pick 3 things that struck you, blog about it and your reactions to the readings this week.
  • Begin learning how to use IRC for communication. We'll cover this in detail next week, but it's better to get started early.