DPS909 and OSD600 Fall 2010 Weekly Schedule

Week 1 (Sept 7) 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

• 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)
  • Article about Mozilla and Firefox in the New York Times

• Lab
  • Firefox Performance Testing

• TODO
  • Complete readings and watching/listening to this weeks resources.
  • 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 as well as the Winter 2010 students page
  • 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
  • Add your blog feed and info to the Open Source@Seneca Planet List so that it appears in the OpenSource@Seneca Planet
  • Blog on your reactions to the readings for this week, and also introduce yourself.
  • Begin learning how to use IRC for communication. We'll cover this in detail next week, but it's better to get started early.