Winter 2008 OSD600 Weekly Schedule

Week 1 (Jan 8) Course introduction

• Course introduction
• Intro to open source
• Intro to Mozilla project
  • Mozilla Project Overview
  • Community, Foundation, Corporation
  • The Mozilla Manifesto
  • Mozilla platform and technologies
• Mozilla Communication Tools
  • Web sites/Wikis
    • http://mozilla.org
    • http://developer.mozilla.org (DMO)
    • http://quality.mozilla.org (QMO)
  • Planet Mozilla
  • IRC

• Readings/Resources
  • "Cathedral and Bazaar" by Eric Raymond
  • "Revolution OS" [film] (see also http://www.revolution-os.com/ or QA 76.9.A25 R68 2003)
  • Mike Shaver discusses the Mozilla Manifesto [MP3]

• TODO
  • 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
  • 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. Your personal page should initially include your contact information and a link to your blog; as you progress through the course, update this page with information about your work.
  • Add your blog feed and info to the Open Source@Seneca Planet List so that it appears in the OpenSource@Seneca Planet
  • Write a blog posting containing your reaction to and reflections on "The Catederal and the Bazaar" and "Revolution OS".
  • Start lurking on irc.mozilla.org - especially the #seneca and #developers channels (Note: to access the #seneca channel, you must be registered - type "/nickserv help" in your IRC client or refer to http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#registering for more information)
  • IRC tutorial - http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/irctutorial.html#intro

Week 4 - Collaborative and Community Development Practices

• Guest speaker: David Eaves (Jan 31)

Previous Versions of OSD600

Fall 2007 Weekly Schedule