* Each student must pick a actively and independently participate in the course open source project from the list of proposed projects(s). This means using IRC, mailing lists, wikis, filing bugs, following bugs, writing patches, doing reviews, or have another project idea approved by the instructoretc. Projects have been created in consultation with the Mozilla community.* Students , and students are strongly encouraged not allowed to work individuallyon other projects (i.e., and only in rare circumstances suggesting your own project will partnerships not be allowed). * Create a project page based on the [[Sample Project|'Sample Project' template]]. If someone has already created a page for a project you want Students are expected to work both ontheir own, speak to that person to see if you can join him/her. If s/he says yes, add your name to the Project Leader(s) section; otherwise pick another project and become a Contributor instead (see below). * Become a Contributor to one or more other projects. This is something that will just happen as you interact on IRC or in class. As people need helppart of an active community, you can choose to get involved both with things. You are encouraged to use members of the [[Contrib Opportunities]] page to list class and find things you can do. For example: helping to debug something, doing research into a problem, writing some tricky code. Over time your list of contributions to other peoples’ projects should grow. Keep track of this in your personal pagethe wider open source community.

* '''6080%''' - Project Deliverables (e.g., code, documents), marked in terms of quality, quantity, etc. Your project will be marked at four milestone releases, the number and values being:** '''1520%''' - 0.1 Release (Due Sept 2927)** '''1520%''' - 0.2 Release (Due Oct 2018)** '''1520%''' - 0.3 Release (Due Nov 1715)** '''1520%''' - 0.4 Release (Due Dec 86)

* '''20%''' - Contributions to other projects, quizzes, lab assignments. You will be marked on the quantity and quality of your contributions to other groups, as well as in-class quizzes and lab assignments. Contribution opportunities will be provided by your professor.* '''5%''' - Fall 2011 [[FSOSS 2011 2012 Research Paper]]. You will be marked on a paper that will be based on research and analysis you will do at [http://fsoss.ca FSOSS 20112012].

* [[DPS909 and OSD600 Fall 2011 2012 Weekly Schedule and Notes|Weekly Schedule and Notes]]* [[Fall 2011 2012 Open Source Students]]* [http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/ Mozilla's Etherpad] and [http://etherpad.cdot.proximity.on.ca:9000/ Seneca's Etherpad]