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