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Revision as of 12:00, 3 September 2014
Introduction
- Course introduction
- Question: What is Open Source?
- Some recent writing about Open Source:
- 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
- Intro to open source
- 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.
