In our campaign, we do as much as we can with whatever we are afforded, and then give all the code away for Free regardless. Affording sponsorship to developers, and opening those kind of positive feedback loops, is a vision too few share. From one campaign built upon code and coders to another, I would like to apply not for your fellowship, but for Rochester to be included in your list of available cities. We want to run this campaign --or one very much like ...

As Resident Hacktivist at Rochester Institute of Technology (http://www.rit.edu), on behalf of the FOSS@RIT Campaign (http://foss.rit.edu), I would like to know, from the journalists' perspective, how we can mold the tools of our CIVX platform (http://civx.us) to best meet the needs of the Media, and how our students, fellows, and faculty, can bridge the gap for an industry in the midst of major paradigm shift. Our project specializ ...

Here is the link to the on-line press release. I've attached a .pdf version to this post as well. Saving_The_World(RemyD): AttachmentSize ritcivxpressrelease.pdf 83.68 KB ...

A Proper Hackfest. Finally. 16 hour days. At least 16. Breaking only to eat and maybe grab a cig here and there. Deep. Real deep. Like, all the way down to the bottem of the stack. Opening up SQLAlchemy source, DBSessions, engines, metadata... super low-level Database/Datamodel hacking. Halfway through, Lewk and I looked at eachother and thought: > Did we dive too deep? Can we really build DynamicDataObjects on-the-fly? Are the Polymorphic Tables really supposed to be (ab)used in this w ...

Just arrived at PDF Bootcamp! So excited for the next 5 hours of campaign and advocacy mentoring with leading non-profits and tech orgs. I already made my rounds at the old homestead, SFLC, and my favorite morning breakfast sandwich cart on 68th. Boy, it is good to be back in NYC. ...

We've implemented blogs now for all of our users. A neat little module in drupal. I really slept on this system for sure, its quite powerful, and I'll be sure to use it more in the future. ...