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=Introduction=
The fall is broken into two parts. First, general open source and and community (i.e., Mozilla) specific skills and ideas are taught. Students learn how to deal with the tools, techniques, and practices of their chosen project and its community. Second, we go deep into open web and browser development with a case study.
=Part I – Essential Open Source Development Skills and Concepts=
== Week 1 (Sept 5) Course introduction ==
''Editor(s): David Humphrey''
* Course introduction
* Intro to open source
** Proprietary Licenses, EULAs
*** [http://www.microsoft.com/About/Legal/EN/US/IntellectualProperty/UseTerms/Default.aspx Microsoft]
*** [http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/ Apple]
*** [http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/legal/terms/tou/ Skype]
** Open Licenses
*** [http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause BSD]
*** [http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0 GPL]
*** [http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT MIT]
* Intro to Mozilla project
** [[Mozilla Project Overview]]
** Community, Foundation, Corporation
** [http://www.mozilla.org/about/mozilla-manifesto.html The Mozilla Manifesto]
* '''Readings/Resources'''
** [http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_3/raymond/ "Cathedral and Bazaar"] by Eric Raymond
** [http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409&q=open+source "Revolution OS"] [film] (see also http://www.revolution-os.com/ or QA 76.9.A25 R68 2003)
* '''TODO'''
** Pick one Closed and one Open license/eula, and read them from start to finish. Pick 3 things that struck you about them to present in class next time.
** 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]] [[Fall 2011 Open Source Students]] pages
** 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 [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/~chris.tyler/planet OpenSource@Seneca Planet]
** '''Blog''' on your reactions to the readings for this week.
** 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.
The fall is broken into two parts. First, general open source and and community (i.e., Mozilla) specific skills and ideas are taught. Students learn how to deal with the tools, techniques, and practices of their chosen project and its community. Second, we go deep into open web and browser development with a case study.
=Part I – Essential Open Source Development Skills and Concepts=
== Week 1 (Sept 5) Course introduction ==
''Editor(s): David Humphrey''
* Course introduction
* Intro to open source
** Proprietary Licenses, EULAs
*** [http://www.microsoft.com/About/Legal/EN/US/IntellectualProperty/UseTerms/Default.aspx Microsoft]
*** [http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/ Apple]
*** [http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/legal/terms/tou/ Skype]
** Open Licenses
*** [http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause BSD]
*** [http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0 GPL]
*** [http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT MIT]
* Intro to Mozilla project
** [[Mozilla Project Overview]]
** Community, Foundation, Corporation
** [http://www.mozilla.org/about/mozilla-manifesto.html The Mozilla Manifesto]
* '''Readings/Resources'''
** [http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_3/raymond/ "Cathedral and Bazaar"] by Eric Raymond
** [http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409&q=open+source "Revolution OS"] [film] (see also http://www.revolution-os.com/ or QA 76.9.A25 R68 2003)
* '''TODO'''
** Pick one Closed and one Open license/eula, and read them from start to finish. Pick 3 things that struck you about them to present in class next time.
** 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]] [[Fall 2011 Open Source Students]] pages
** 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 [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/~chris.tyler/planet OpenSource@Seneca Planet]
** '''Blog''' on your reactions to the readings for this week.
** 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.
