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* Course introduction
* Success in this course requires:
** Willingness to be lost and not panic
** Curiosity
** Being driven, persistence
** Willingness to ask for help
** Willingness to give others help
** Independent learning
** Doing more, much more, than the bare minimum
* Intro to open source
** Proprietary Licenses, EULAs
* '''Lab - Build Firefox'''
** [[DPS909 and OSD600 Fall 2012 Lab 1|Build Firefox]] due '''Sept 13'''
** NOTE: instead of a class on Monday Sept 10th, we'll have a work day. Use the #seneca channel on irc.mozilla.org to meetup with other students.
* '''TODO'''
** 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]
** Pick one Closed and one Open license/eula, and read them from start to finish. Pick '''3 things that struck you''', blog about it and your reactions to the readings 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.]