Winter 2013 DPS911 and OSD700 Weekly Schedule

Introduction

The course will meet every Thursday, with Tuesday being optional office hours. Project deliverables and demonstrations will be done on Thursdays. You are responsible to sign-up for your demo slots. Only 3 demos per week will be evaluated, and slots are provided on a first-come-first-served basis. Please sign-up below.

Weekly Schedule

Week 1 (Jan 7)

• Course Intro, brief welcome meeting and discussion.
• WebVTT Project Planning
• Accessibility@Mozilla
• Interview with Hixie on the web platform
• How Browsers Work good intro to the topic as we start hacking on Gecko.
• Implement track element bug 629350
  • Ralph's existing patch (needs to get updated and working again)
  • WebIDL in Mozilla (need to convert patch over to using this)

• TODO
  • Write a blog post with a Project Description and Plan by Thursday Jan 10th. Make sure this includes detailed information about the area of the WebVTT project you'll be driving, ideas for releases, goals, perceived issues you think you'll face, etc. This info can change in subsequent weeks; however, writing this plan will insure that you have your project clearly in mind early on.
  • Sign-up for Student Demo slots below with Name, Day, Time.
  • Make yourself aware of all Release Due Dates below.
  • Make contact, setup communications:
    • Sign-up for dev-media mailing list
    • Use the webvtt-dev mailing list for just our classmates + Ralph and Chris (both Media developers with Mozilla)
    • Join and introduce yourself to rillina on the #media irc channel
    • Join the #introduction irc channel, for help working with Mozilla code
    • Join and stay connected to #seneca irc channel, for course/project back-channel communication

Week 2 (Jan 14) [Release Due]

• 0.4 Clean-up, seneca to master branch landing, repo migration to Mozilla, etc.

• Updating Ralph's patch, WIP https://gist.github.com/4555696
  • Spec bug https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20651
  • Gecko bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=830879

• Blog post due today with details of what you've done for this release, whether it worked or not.

Week 3 (Jan 21)

• Student Demos (Thurs 1:30 - 3:15)

1. Dale Karp
2. Marcus Saad

• Ralph's patch updated
  • Code on humphd's github
• libwebvtt 0.4 review for landing in mozilla/webvtt
• WebVTT Bug Filing Plan

Week 4 (Jan 28) [Release Due]

• Release 0.5 Due

• Student Demos (Thurs 1:30 - 3:15)

1. Rick Eyre
2. Shayan Ahmad
3. Caitlin Potter

Week 5 (Feb 4)

• Ralph's work on open web standards on display https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/02/hello-chrome-its-firefox-calling/

• Student Demos (Thurs 1:30 - 3:15)

1. Jordan Raffoul
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Week 6 (Feb 11) [Release Due]

• Release 0.6 Due

• Student Demos (Thurs 1:30 - 3:15)

1. Shayan Ahmad
2. Dale Karp
3. Marcus Saad

Week 7 (Feb 18)

• Student Demos (Thurs 1:30 - 3:15)

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Study Week (Feb 25)

• No Presentations or Releases.

Week 8 (March 4) [Release Due]

• Release 0.7 Due

• Student Demos (Thurs 1:30 - 3:15)

1. Rick Eyre
2. Shayan Ahmad
3.

Week 9 (March 11)

• Student Demos (Thurs 1:30 - 3:15)

1. Dale Karp
2. Caitlin Potter
3. Marcus Saad

Week 10 (March 18) [Release Due]

• Release 0.8 Due

• Student Demos (Thurs 1:30 - 3:15)

1. Jordan Raffoul
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Week 11 (March 25)

• Student Demos (Thurs 1:30 - 3:15)

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Week 12 (April 1) [Release Due]

• Release 0.9 Due

• Student Demos (Thurs 1:30 - 3:15)

1. Rick Eyre
2. Caitlin Potter
3. Jordan Raffoul

Week 13 (April 8)

• Final Presentation, all students.

Week 14 (April 15) [Release Due]

• Exam Week
• Release 1.0 Due