The count got a little mixed up over the weekend. The weekend was spent at a National Day of Civic Hacking working on a small side project of mine called Sky Time, and educational game about telling time for the XO laptops. Then Monday I tried to get Sky Time packaged for the XO. Then today, the Tuesday I'm just going to call Day 6 and just continue my count from there, in the down time of work I finally figured out how to debug an Activity when I found out there was a Log Activity that could tr ...

One Week Down! I know what I have to do for this project, and I know why I have to do it, all that remains now is the how. Here's a day by day break down of what happened: # Day 0: Bootstrapping -> Installed Fedora on my comp -> TIL laptops can be called "Boxes" -> Created accounts on many websites: -->> We use github to share our code -->> We used this to register for Flock -->> [ We use this to chat in our debrie ...

The first week working with the FOSSbox was already quite the experience. I have learned numerous things for a smart bunch of individuals and it is was only week 1! I have learned how to work with the Linux OS and set that up on my laptop (see you later Windows) and I have already fallen in love with it! I set up my very own GitHub account where I will be posting all my work that I have done this summer as well in the future. After getting some hands on experie ...

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 ]( ...

My first week at the FOSSBox has already been a series of new experiences and opportunities. I am running Fedora for the first time (and loving it!), I began working on my first open source project for Red Hat, and I attended my first (civic) hackathon. For this first week a lot of time was spent setting up my laptop and the many accounts that I needed, and registered to attend and to give a 45 minute talk about my Gource project at [Flock to Fedora](http://flocktof ...

Today I mocked up some standards for each group of badges. (FOSS@RIT, Fedora, and OLPC) None of this is set in stone! I am currently having several internal debates about how some of this stuff will work. I would love to talk this out with you guys tomorrow and make some decisions on what the design standards of the badges will be. I heard back from a couple of people on the Fedora design team. Very positive feedback :D but also some suggestions for functionality. See attached PDF AttachmentS ...

It is now the end of the first week. This first week was mostly spent getting everyone settled into the FOSS community and introducing us all into what we will be working on for the summer. The first day, Day 0, the mentors explained to us what IRC was, we set up Github accounts, and the mentors went over how the summer undergraduate research was going to work. The second day, we started looking at the projects everyone was going to be working on for the summer, I tried to switch my operating sy ...

We spent the day mostly moving everything we had packed up on day 2 to the new location for the FOSSBox for the summer. It was a lot of tiring working moving all the heavy and awkward equipment. There were a few injuries during moving but luckily there was nothing serious. There were a few stiff backs, a couple people got minor cuts, and I ended up with splinters. However, the moving went very smoothly. The rest of the day, us in the Lemonade Stand team went over our ideas of what we want to wor ...

Its a very FOSS summer everyone! :D I just started working with the team implementing Open Badges for Fedora. For now I am making badge designs and UI and layout of the website. http://fedora project.org/wiki/Open_Badges Here is my first pass at the website layout. AttachmentSize fedoraBadgeSiteMockup.pdf 906.11 KB ...

Sadly today we packed up the FOSSbox :( We are preparing to move to a different location for the remainder of the summer as the Innovation Center will be renovated for new work space and the FOSSbox 3.0. Most of the day was packing up computer components, posters, and a whole lot of books. My task was organizing books with my buddy Ryan and packing and labeling boxes accordingly. Since it was Thursday, it was also Buffalo Wild Wings Day! For those who don't know what this is, it is a special t ...