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Monthly Archives: October 2006
FSOSS Begins
Today begins the first day of our Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS). This morning and afternoon we have workshops on various open source technologies and tools—Ben Smedberg and Neil Deakin are doing XULRunner and XUL workshops right now. Tomorrow it’s a full day of talks. We’re filming all the talks tomorrow, and we’ll [...]
Understanding the pragmatics of software releases
Today the vacationing Rob Helmer stopped into Seneca in order to give a very interesting lecture on release engineering as practiced by Mozilla. Rob spoke about the need to find reproducible and quantifiable ways of producing software. He also talked about his work to automate portions of the Mozilla release process. This [...]
Meet “The Firefoxes”
Yesterday Mike Connor came to speak to my class on open source and Mozilla development. Not to be outdone by that other Mike, he brought “Lucy” and their son Gryphon. Who says Mozilla isn’t fun for the whole family? Mike did a great job of illuminating the life-cycle of a bug. He went through the [...]
How to demonstrate the culture of participation?
Trying to teach how open source happens in the wild is not something easily done through handouts and diagrams. Sure, it’s easy to *say* that open source functions through the small (or large) gifts of time and energy by a community of invested individuals. But one really needs examples. Take Reed Loden, for example…
Earlier in [...]
FSOSS, you almost killed me.