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Mozilla internships

• Lukkas, Armen, Anthony (Songbird) - confirmed Mozilla internships in CA
• Mozilla is seeking three more interns

Five Seneca Students Help Ensure Firefox Extensions are Ready for Firefox 3

The Firefox web browser can be customized and enhanced with powerful, easy-to-install 'extensions'. Extensions are one of the key factors in the browser's success.

Mozilla has hired five Seneca students on a part-time basis to review and test extensions to ensure compatibility with the upcoming release of Firefox 3.

Two New Mozilla Development Courses Started

Two new professional option courses have been created to enable students to continue the development of projects started in the DPS909 (BSD) and OSD600 (CPA) Topics in Open Source Development courses. The Open Source Project courses, led by David Humphrey, are DPS911 and OSD700.

OCE Connections Grant

The Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) Connections program has provided a total of $14K in matching grants to support four team projects working on various Mozilla technologies. This funding has been used to purchase some equipment and time on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) compute farm.

3D in the Browser: C3DL and CATGames

• Cathy at GDC
• Part-time hires
• Collaboration with other institutions

CDOT Sets Up on First Floor of TEL Building

CDOT now has the use of nine cubicles on the first floor of the TEL building. Six of these cubicles have been set up for Mozilla development: four have quad-core, dual-screen Windows/Linux systems, and two have large-screen Mac Mini systems. The remaining cubicles will be used for the CATGeames project.

Demand for Open Source Students Outstrips Supply

• More demand than students - 6 fulltime positions unfilled

Links

• Grant from Mozilla - Press Release
• CBC news coverage
• CDOT web site

How to Get Involved with Open Source at Seneca

• FSOSS
• (Getting on IRC)

On the Radar

• OOo
• PostgreSQL - db load modelling and tuning
• Build Course
• TFN
• FSOSS
• IBM - Ajax day
• PHUG - James Walker - Drupal