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 ...

Today was packing day for the FOSSBox. Everything in the FOSSBox is now packed and ready to be moved to it's new temporary location while the FOSSBox is being renovated. After that the Lemonade Stand team worked on organizing our ideas into what where the main things we were going to add this summer, what were things we would like to have added by the end of the summer, and things we would like to see added next time. After that we customized our irc settings. While we were doing this we found a ...

Boxing day Today we packed up the FOSSbox into smaller boxes, before feasting on wings and commemorating the FOSScouch! Imagine the most comfy couch, now add sunlight and an equally comfy footrest. It was wonderful. My only complaint was that I couldn't nap and code at the same time. Speaking of coding, I also did some project work today. We looked over the Lemonade stand wiki and compared our wishlist to theirs: Lemonade Stand Wiki. I also looke ...

Today we celebrated this sunny Thursday by packing up the FOSSBox since we are moving into Golisano tomorrow. I haven't spent much time in there but I do like the location - its open which I feel is going to be much better than some lab. We shall see tomorrow I suppose. Along the boxing theme we had round one of Red Hat conference calls with some designers and memebers of their branding/marketing team. It went really well. I didn't talk much but listening in gave me a better idea of what we are ...

So I don't have as much interesting things to say about the project that I'll be working on this summer as the rest of the group I'll be working with due to technical difficulties. However I wasn't completely unpreductive this day. While everyone was playtesting the game Lemonade Stand I observed their actions and eventhough I wasn't able to contribute to the collective document of suggested changes and badges, I discussed my ideas with the group. In my opinion, Lemonade Stand is ok but it needs ...

I spent today learning a little more about Gource and starting to dive into its flags, what they do, and how we could display them on a UI. I used the the flags and descriptions that i got using man gource command and I put them into a nice little Google Doc that you can see here. We also have some ideas floating there for how we are going to display them on the UI and some general n ...

Greetings! Today was the second day of Summer at rit FOSS. I finally got to install and use Sugar, the desktop environment originially developed by Sugar labs for the XO laptops in OLPC program. I remember long ago I first heard about them from watching 60 minutes with my dad back when I was still in high school. Here's the url to the original article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/20/60minutes/main2830058.shtml ...

After setting up Fedora on my laptop and completely throwing away Windows, I have installed Sugar as well as Lemonade Stand, the game I will be working on for the remainder of my time this summer! This was very exciting to finally get some hands on interaction with the game and see how it plays out. I went through and playtested the game for a hour writing down ideas, thoughts, or any comments about the game that could potentially be improved or implemented. Ideas that came to mind were being a ...

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 ...

Hi! My name is Suzanne Reed. I am a Computer Engineering student and have just finished my second year at RIT. This summer I am lucky enough to have an co-op with Red Hat at the RIT FossBOX working with Gource. With Gource, we hope to create a UI to simplify Gource for the average user and develop Gource videos to illustrate the overall impact of Red Hat in many projects. I am really excited to get started and gain experience working on my first open source software project. My personal goal is ...