DPS909 and OSD600 Fall 2008 Weekly Schedule

Week 2 (Sept 8) - Collaborative and Community Development Practices

• Collaborative development using on-line tools
• Intro to Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
• Blogs and Planets
  • Planet Mozilla
  • Novell's OpenOffice.org Planet
  • Planet OpenOffice.org
  • OpenSource@Seneca Planet
• Using Wikis for collaborative writing
  • Wikipedia and MediaWiki
  • Intro to course wiki
    • "Yes, you can edit it!"
    • Common Editing tasks, History, Reverting changes
    • Watches, Recent Changes
    • Comparing selected versions (cf. diff)
    • Editing help
  • Wikis used by Mozilla and OpenOffice.org
    • http://developer.mozilla.org (a.k.a., devmo, MDC)
    • http://wiki.mozilla.org (a.k.a., wmo or wiki.m.o)
    • http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page
• Project discussion

• Guests
  • On Thursday September 11th during class, we'll be joined by OpenOffice.org's Community Manger, Louis Suarez-Potts . Louis will talk about open source community, the OpenOffice.org project, and answer your questions.
  • Also on Thursday September 11th from 5:00 - 6:00, the Fedora project leader, Paul Frields, will be hosting an IRC discussion on freenode:#seneca for the LUX students. You are encouraged to join and listen to Paul discuss the Fedora project, Linux, and how their community works. You can also see a video of Paul talking about Fedora here.

• Readings/Resources
• Mozilla Community (on-line lecture) by Mozilla's Mike Beltzner
• Getting started in Open Source projects, or "Learning to be at the festival" (on-line lecture) by David Humphrey (given at Mozilla24 in Stanford): Formats - mpg, ogg, mp4
• Learning Collaborative Development Lab Fall 2008

• TODO
  • Ensure all TODO items from week 1 are completed
  • Comment in at least one other student's blog with your feedback to what they wrote
  • Watch online lectures for this week about open source community
  • Complete this week's lab by Friday.
  • Look at the Potential Projects page and pick 3 projects on which you'd like to work--next week, you'll narrow this to just one. List them here along with your name.
  • Add your wiki page to the class list for your section: Students in DPS909 Fall 2008 or Students in OSD600 Fall 2008