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 ...

There isn't much to talk about today. Most of the day was spent scouring the internet for as much information the Journal on the XOs and the XS, the Sugar School Servers. Towards the end of the day my machine then died. Going to see if it can be fixed tomorrow or if I have to get a new one. ...

Today was a long and extensive day of digging through the interent and all sugar directories on our system's to find any information about the XO and how it communicates with the XS, which is the School Server for XO laptops. We were able to find a link that talks about datastore and how to create new data objects. I found one link that talks about how to read and write to and from th ...

Today was an exciting learning day, not saying that every day is not! Today we had a great Git/Vim tutorial presented to us by our own Nate! This was an awesome introduction/clarification session. I knew the very very basics to sucessfully hack remotely for the hackathon that was last weekend, but during this session I learned how to deal with merge errors! yay! With this, I installed meld which is a great interactive tool that helps resolve ...

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 ...