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[[Category: SPO600]][[SPO600]] students use a number of communication tools that have been built and heavily adopted by Open Source communities. This page contains set-up instructions for some of these communication tools.
== Wiki ==
{{Admon/important|This is a Wiki!|...Which means you can edit it. Obviously, don't change things such as assignment due dates (!), but feel free to create new pages, add text to existing pages, fix any typos you find, and add resources and links.}}
== Blog and Planet ==
A ''blog'' (short for ''weblog'') is a (usually personal) website where dated articles are posted over a period of time. In the open source community, blogs are used to announce new projects, project releases, and general information, to comment on current happenings, to record personal reflections, and to comment on other people's blog postings. Many Open Source communities aggregate posts from their community members into a [http://planetplanet.org Planet] so that it is possible to view posts from the entire community on one web page.
See the Open Source@Seneca [[Blog Guidelines]] <!-- and [[Open Source@Seneca Planet List|Planet List]] --> for information about setting up your blog and including your postings in our Planet.<!-- The OpenSource@Seneca planet is at http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/~chris.tyler/planet/-->
{{Admon/tip|Submitting Coursework|In this course, most coursework is submitted by blogging. Therefore, it is important to write blog posts frequently, with good content, writing, and links.}}
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IRC stands for ''Internet Relay Chat'' and provides immediate, text-based chat facilities. See the [[Irc|IRC]] article on this wiki for details. Some open source projects use IRC extensively, others are moving away from it.
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== Slack ==
Slack is an online discussion system. Sign up to use the [https://seneca-open-source.slack.com Seneca Open Source Slack] workspace (sign-up with your @myseneca.ca email; this same Slack workspace is used in the [[OSD600]]/[[DPS909]] course, so you may already have an account if you're also taking that course).
== Email ==
When communicating with your professor by email, please use your Seneca-provided e-mail address as the "From:" address (<code>''yourname''@myseneca.ca</code>). Because your professor receives a '''huge ''' amount of email, it's helpful if you critical to include your course code in the subject line of each of your messages.
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