I am Ian Furry, a student entering my senior year at Rochester Institute of Technology studying Game Design and Development. Over the summer, as part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Foundation, I'll be implementing Mozilla Open Badges in the game Lemonade Stand for the XO of One Laptop per Child. I became interested in working on this after taking a humanitarian open source software class and creating a educational activity from scratch for Sugar. From this experience I hope to get a better ...

Hello, my name is Fernando Axel Ellis. This summer I'll be working through the RIT FOSSbox on open Badges in the Lemonade Stand program for the XO Laptop. I wanted to work with the FOSSbox at RIT this summer to gain a firm grasp on planning a computer programming project for a small team as well as following through with said plans. I plan to work on many open source software projects in the future and I hope to gain a foothold on the structure of the community. My Github account: [https://gith ...

Hello! My name is David Wilson and I am a 3rd year pursuing a BS in Game Design and Development as well as a minor in Computer Science. I am working with a RIT Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) team implementing the Mozilla Open Badges into Lemonade Stand on the XO Laptop of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). We are doing this in a modular way, so that our work can be integrated into other activities and games on the XO. I would love to get great team building skills and experience on ...

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 ...

Hello Everyone, There have been some great things happening here in Sky-Time Land. We had the game set up on some of the FOSS Box computers during imagine RIT, and it was a hit with the kids! Don’t trust my word, this video of one child's excitement speaks for its self: http://jlk9713.cias.rit.edu/videos/index.gif I have to say I was not 100% confident that the game would be fun. The concept is based around one core mechanic. (Matching times by ...

www.playskytime.com Success! We will be at Imagine RIT in FOSS Box in the Innovation Center! The download is not quite ready yet, but should be up shortly! This week we rethought the interface and user interaction with the keyboard. At Ryan’s suggestion we are now using the shift keys to move the clock hands. This allows the player to use both hands comfortably. We also have some plans for positive reinforcement with animation of clock hands when the student gets ...

Hi all, So there have been some pretty amazing things going on around here in Sky-Time land, way better than I would have ever dared to hope. We are talking with a school that is interested in using our game to teach time. They have made some good suggestions to improve our game before release. Ryan and Ian are currently working on merging their code, and will then jump on making those improvements. I have been working on the Sky-Time website. I’ll post the link here when that’s online. In oth ...

Howdy, This week has been full of fun FOSS related activities. For Sky-Time I created the small icon that will appear on the desktop. The Pythonistas meet up was very useful. Some suggestions really helped the coding end of our project. I saw Walter Bender speak! That was awesome. And after we talked about what icons he would like to see re-designed. So I will be attempting to make those real soon. Today he is coming to class to speak again. This weekend is the Space Apps Challenge! And also ...

All of the art assets are done! Wahoo. Code is going slowly but starting to come together. Next few steps: -Write out questions -lesson plan -Prettify website -translate languages ...

It feels like it just started, but the HFOSS Spring course is already past half-done! Perhaps the 13 day excursion to Silicon Valley and Harvard had something to do with that... # Part 1: PyCon 2013: Santa Clara, CA FOSS@RIT took four students out to PyCon 2013. There were two main components to our Lab's involvment at PyCon; the Education Summit, and the Poster Session. Details about the PyCon ...