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** '''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.
== Week 2 (Sept 8) - Collaborative and Community Development Practices ==
* Collaborative development using on-line tools
* [[Irc|Intro to Internet Relay Chat (IRC)]]
* Blogs and Planets
** [http://planet.mozilla.org Planet Mozilla]
** [http://planet.go-oo.org/ Novell's OpenOffice.org Planet]
** [http://planetopenoffice.org/ Planet OpenOffice.org]
** [http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/~chris.tyler/planet/ OpenSource@Seneca Planet]
* Using Wikis for Collaborative writing
** [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] and [http://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki]
** Intro to course wiki
*** "Yes, you can edit it!"
*** Common Editing tasks, History, Reverting changes
*** Watches, [[Special:Recentchanges|Recent Changes]]
*** Comparing selected versions (cf. diff)
*** [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Help:Editing 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 [irc://irc.freenode.net/seneca freenode:#seneca] for the LUX students. You are encouraged to join and listen to Paul discuss the [http://fedoraproject.org/ Fedora project], Linux, and how their community works. You can also see a video of Paul talking about Fedora [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/05/15/video-fedora-project-leader-on-fedora-9/ 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 [http://www.mozilla24.com/en-US/ Mozilla24 in Stanford]): Formats - [http://videos.mozilla.org/mozilla24/1-16_david.mpg mpg], [http://videos.mozilla.org/mozilla24/1-16_david.ogg ogg], [http://videos.mozilla.org/mozilla24/1-16_david.mp4 mp4]
* [[Learning Collaborative Development Lab Fall 2008]]
* '''TODO'''
** Insure 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 [[Learning Collaborative Development Lab Fall 2008|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 [[DPS909 and OSD600 Fall 2008 Project Sign-up|here]] along with your name.
** Add your wiki page to the class list for your section: [[Students in DPS909]] or [[Students in OSD600]]
