Last tuesday, the main achievement of the day was getting a GitHUB tutorial from one of our mentors. It was an extremely cool seminar where I believe everyone learn alot more than they thought was possible. Also, merging a text file from at least 7 people who were asked to change one line is a rather tedious task. I had the unfortunate pleasure of merging the same file at least 5 times....We were also linked to a Git Resource Sheet. T ...

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 ]( ...

Yesterday was a bittersweet day for everyone at the FOSSbox at RIT...We all had the solemn duty of packing away all materials and equipment in the box to be moved to a new temporary FOSSlab so Innovation Center renovations can commence. With all the help we had, the proceedings moved quickly and smoothly. After a delicious lunch, the team sat down and tackled the task of dividing our list of features/tasks/needs/nices/wishes/ etc. We used the previous team's wiki page to start [Lemonade Stand W ...

DAY 2 of the summer Co-Op. yesterday I finally installed Fedora on my Mac using the tutorial found here: Fedora install on Macbook Pro After getting all o' this settled down and having a mid morning pep talk from my mentors, we got to work finishing up installing some odds and ends on everyone's new fedora boxes to make life a little easier. We then proceeded to install sugar, and our respective projects onto our machines, we started play t ...

My name is Ryan Stush and I am a rising senior at the Rochester Institute of Technology studying New Media Interactive Development. I recently took a FOSS class and was able to obtain a Co-Op with the RIT FOSS Box this summer. My team and I will be working on implementing the Mozilla Open Badges into the Sugar Labs XO laptops from their "One Laptop Per Child" program. The first reason I wanted to do FOSS this summer is because I needed a Co-Op, however after I had completed the FOSS class in wh ...