After seven tries at getting the foss@rit site migrated to openshift, I must concede... for tonight. Vanilla openshift quickstarter for drupal First attempt was editing by hand, and I installed modules and themes after bumbling around in the new (to me) drupal 7 interface. installed the backup and migrate module, and tried to restore from a mysqldump from this site... and hosed it destroy the app, start fresh bumble around til I figured out how to enable phpmyadmin import ...

Timezone: US/Eastern Summary: Start 01/18/2012 - 7 00pm

Timezone US/Eastern

Just in time for the start of 2012, we’re staring a hacks/hackers chapter for Rochester and the greater Western NY area. hacks/hackers is an international organization dedicated to bringing together journalists (hacks) and technologists ...

Timezone: US/Eastern Summary: Start 02/02/2012 - 6 00pm

Timezone US/Eastern

Where Center for Student Innovation (Bldg 87-1600)
When Thursday February 2nd, 6pm - ?
What FOSS@RIT will be hosting a hackfest to generate interest and entrants for the National Stem Video Game Challenge
Bring Feel free to bring ...

Right before winter break began, we decided to go out with a bang. We hosted a hackathon for the STEM Video Game Challenge. We had about 2 dozen attendees over the course of the evening, and had about 3 prototype and concept projects go into development by the end. I don't want to steal my own thunder, as I will be contributing a blog post for the STEMChallenge.org blog describing the event in detail, but it is still worth mentioning. Thanks everyone who could make i ...

Timezone: US/Eastern Summary: Start 12/15/2011 - 6 00pm

Timezone US/Eastern

Where Center for Student Innovation (Bldg 87-1600)
When Thursday December 15th, 6pm - ?
What FOSS@RIT will be hosting a hackfest to generate interest and entrants for the National Stem Video Game Challenge
Bring Feel free to bring ...

So, after spending some time pouring over some of the high-profile python projects on GitHub, I found a handful of populars and forked to look for bugs. It was successful! I have 3 open pull requests in Bottle.py, twython, and foursquare- python. Bottle.py is a dead- simple micro-framework for python web applications, and one I've played with before ...

The FOSSBox is picking up again :) I love when we have foss courses running, as it brings much more traffic through the lab. We're also in the process of bringing in another part-time hire to help with FOSS@RIT/LTL projects. We spent the afternoon going over the basics of git, and some of the projects that Robb will likely be working on this quarter. I've also hopped on the Tumblr bandwagon, and created a new blog. It is inherently social, and easy to follow others with, wh ...