This first week was quite a whirlwind of new experiences. We began by reformating our laptops with fedora (linux), to provide an identical, team wide developement platform. Our aim was to make collaborating alot easier as the project continued. I was the only one who had a Macbook to reformat, and posted entirely on this point in an earlier blog (see blog list for url to the tutorial I used). After all that was said and done, I picked up a couple cool features from the Gnome Shell Extensions site to beef up my work space. I added a few features here and there to make life a little easier in understanding how to use fedora with Gnome. We were introduced to PiratePad, which is a collaborative note pad for team organization in tasks. We also started preparing for the National Civic Day of Hacking NCDH which is the first holiday for hackers, that was nationally recognised by the White House. Last semester at RIT, a team of students, including myself, worked on an educational game called Skytime for deployment into the Sugar Labs, OLPC, XO laptops. We had previously got it working, but for some reason it had some shotty performance issues when we put it on the acutal XO laptop. During with hackathon, three students including myself, decided to rework and update the game so we could send a proper version to a school in North Carolina who had some teachers that were interested in using it. Before all of this wonderful hacking could take place, we had to pick up and move our entire operation from the FOSSbox, to a misc lab (now named the FOSSlab) on the second floor of the building we were stationed in. There was alot of gear to transport, so we rolled up our sleeves and got to work. Most of the gear was rather easy to transport and set up because of our careful planning the previous day in boxing, but I will vividly remember how heavy an old school arcade stand is becuase we had the distinct pleasure to volunteer to move that thing to our new location (it was a Street FIghter Game). We all put our blood, sweat, and tears into moving that plywood box (literally blood, my mentor Remy cut his finger on a sharp screw while supporting it under a low hanging ceiling). As we moving into week 2, I believe we have some very cool lessons forthcoming with Github and various other programs which will make this summer even more amazing!