We'll hold our first group meeting online on Friday September 5th at 10:45am. Please use the "OSD600 - Fall 2025" Microsoft Team to join (see Blackboard for the link).

We'll use these sessions as a time to connect, reflect on our work through the week, answer questions about the course's topics, labs, and assignments, share demos, and work on code together. These sessions will be participatory discussions vs. lectures.

1. Course Introduction video
2. Week 1 Overview video
3. Copyright in Canada video

• Copyright Guide
• What is Open Source?
• The Open Source Definition
• Open Source at Seneca
• Simon Willison on What to Blog About
• Julia Evans on Measuring a Blog's Success
• Map of GitHub (experimental visualization of 400K GitHub repos and their connections)

Here are some questions for you to consider this week as you do your readings. Try to come up with some answers for yourself as you go:

• If I find code on the internet, what am I allowed to do with it?
• Is source code subject to copyright? What about a website?
• As a student, if I create code at Seneca who owns the copyright, me or Seneca? What about if I'm working at a job?
• How do I copyright my work?
• How long does my copyright last in Canada?
• What is open source?
• What open source do I use?
• How do I write a good blog post?
• What does it mean to "fork" a project?
• What is Slack and How do I use it?
• Is it OK to use AI when you program in open source projects?
• Who else is taking this course? How do I work with them?

• Work on the Readings above and try to answer the Questions I've posed for you.
• Join the "OSD600 - Fall 2025" Microsoft Team and come introduce yourself to us
• Join the weekly Group Meeting on Teams (Thursdays at 10:45 am)
• Create a blog for yourself and write your first post before Friday at midnight. Send Dave your blog URL and GitHub info by email.
• Begin work on Release 0.1 (due by midnight on Sept 19)
• Start collaborating with your colleagues as you work on blogging and Release 0.1. Make sure you don't try to tackle this alone, leverage our community and learn to "work open"!