So as a part of the HFOSS course we were assigned to read Chapter 3 of Steve Weber's 'The Success of Open Source'. This is just a brief rundown of the chapter and my thoughts. Information Author: Steve Weber Title: The Success of Open Source, Ch. 3 What is Open Source and How Does it Work? URL: http://hfoss-fossrit.rhcloud.com/static/books/Weber- SuccessofOpenSource-... Publish Date: 2004 The Gist This c ...

Tomorrow evening marks the first day of Rosh Hashanah (Happy New Year!) and the middle of the second week of classes so I thought should probably write a blog post to talk about the classes of the new year.... This is a pretty exciting semsester (my first college semester) because almost all of my classes are academically relevant to my major. Other than a Chemistry course I am taking, every class is a computer related course: Applied Programming, C ...

So far, so good. Seven pull requests, and even a pull request to the core server itself (shoutout to F4ngy!) You can see the class contributions here: https://github.com/decause/hflossk/pulls?direction=desc&page=1&sort=crea... No class today, as RIT is closed for Labor Day (for the first time, like, ever) so we've had to cancel our special Guest Lecture from Lmacken. That being said, we'll get him in ...

Humanitarian Free/Open Source Software Development is being offered again this fall! For more information, you can visit the course website: http://hfoss-fossrit.rhcloud.com I'm hopeful we'll see continued progress on many of the projects from years gone-by, but also continuation on the projects that were polished and released from this summer's SURF Fellows (who did a splendid job, and are ready to work with new contributors!) ...

There once was a game called SkyTime. SkyTime was created by a group of brave and super attractive RIT students. This game, being of humanitarian purpose and just cause, was honored by the White House in Washington DC. (You know, the one that is the center of American politics and all of that :D) It is the night before the event, and our fantastic heroine (me) is preparing to leave for the airport. I make a call to check the flight status, but to everyone’s dismay: THE FLIGHT IS CANCELLED. (Cue ...

It is now the end of the ninth week of this summer research program. This summer research project is beginning to fully wrap up. Badges on the XO environment is coming along very nicely. We are very close to being able to fully realize the goal we had with badges but due to complications with the technology we had available to work with some of the grander ideas we had cannot be finished within just this summer. However our goal to have something that runs and stores open badges on the XO is wel ...

Today was a bit of a laid back day due to just how much we worked yesterday. I spent most of the day looking through all the progress we have done to prepare for the presentations we're going to have to give. ...

Today was a long day. First we went to teach sixth graders about programming and free and open source software. To get there we had to leave at six thirty in the morning. We then gave a well received lesson that enlightened a new generation of potential programmers. After that we spent the rest of the day with a hack-a-thon finishing up what we had left to get open badges working for the sugar environment which finished up at about two in the morning. ...

Today was a day of preparation. We had to have fifteen working XOs to give an educational programming lesson tomorrow. On each of these XOs we were going to put SkyTime, Lemonade Stand, and Amazing Turtle, a maze exercise using turtle in python to teach young kids the fundamentals of programming. This sounds a whole lot simpler than it was. First of all we found out that the XOs did not have tkinter which is required to run turtle. Then when trying to get everything to work it was discovered tha ...

Just crossed my fingers and hoped that what I ended up submitting to develop wasn't complete broken and ruin the code for everyone. But I was asked to drop the code set up as many of the XOs as I could so that we could go to on a field trip and teach young minds about free and open source programming. So while my group was busy and I couldn't set up Lemonade Stand on my own because I didn't know at all how the code they put in to translated worked or why it was giving me an error I tried to set ...