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→Week 1 (Sept 7) Course introduction
** '''Blog''' on your reactions to the readings for this week, and also introduce yourself.
** Begin learning how to use [[Irc|IRC]] for communication. We'll cover this in detail next week, but it's better to get started early.
== Week 2 (Sept 13) - Collaborative and Community Development Practices ==
* Open, collaborative, geographically dispersed development and the web
** Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Communication
** Timezones
* The function and value of community
** [http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/ Mozilla Foundation (MoFo)]
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation Mozilla Corporation (MoCo)], [http://www.oxymoronical.com/experiments/mozmap/ map of offices/individuals]
** Mozilla Community
*** Other companies or institutions working on Mozilla technology
*** Individual Contributors
* Where can the Mozilla community be found? [[Overview of Mozilla Communication]]
** IRC - [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Education/Learning/Irc Intro to Internet Relay Chat (IRC)]
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog Blogs] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(blog) Planets]
*** How to blog?
*** How do people use blogs?
*** [http://planet.mozilla.org Planet Mozilla]
*** [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/~chris.tyler/planet/ OpenSource@Seneca Planet]
** [http://twitter.com Twitter]
*** Use of Twitter in conjunction with blogging
** [[Overview_of_Mozilla_Communication#Wikis|Wikis]]
*** [[Main_Page|Seneca Course Wiki]]
*** [http://developer.mozilla.org Mozilla Developer Center (MDC)]
*** [http://wiki.mozilla.org Mozilla Wiki (wikimo)]
*** Intro to course wiki
**** "Yes, you can edit it!"
**** Common Editing tasks, History, Reverting changes
**** Watches, [[Special:Recentchanges|Recent Changes]]
**** Comparing selected versions (cf. diff)
**** [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing Editing help]
** [[Overview_of_Mozilla_Communication#Weekly_Calls|Public, project-wide status calls]]
** [[Overview_of_Mozilla_Communication#Mailing_Lists.2FNewsgroups|Mailing Lists]]
** [[Overview_of_Mozilla_Communication#Bugzilla|Bugzilla]] - http://bugzilla.mozilla.org
** [[Overview_of_Mozilla_Communication#.27The_Tree.27:_Tinderbox.2C_HG.2C_Try_Server.2C_Talos|The "Tree"]]
*** Mercurial (hg)
*** Tinderbox, Tinderbox Push Log
* '''Readings/Resources'''
** [[Mozilla Community]] (on-line lecture) by Mozilla's [https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Beltzner Mike Beltzner]
** [http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/06/academic-source-code-dust-up-symptom-of-cs-education-ills.ars Ars Technica article on the value of academic blogging and open source]
* '''Lab'''
** [[Firefox Performance Testing Lab Fall 2010|Firefox Performance Testing]]
* '''TODO'''
** Ensure all TODO items from week 1 are '''completed'''
** Complete Lab as a group by end of week
** Begin (or continue) reading the [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/~chris.tyler/planet/ CDOT Blog Planet], as this is where we will share class announcements and discussions.
** Consider creating an account on Twitter to use in conjunction with your blog
** Dial-in to one of the Mozilla Status calls happening this week, and blog about the experience. I'd recommend the Firefox call.
** Join at least one Mozilla Mailing list
** '''Comment''' in at least one other student's '''blog''' with your feedback to what they wrote. <b>Reminder: Comments have to be approved for them to be be shown on your blog. Check your blog settings.</b>
** Watch online lectures for this week about open source community, blog your reactions.