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 ...

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 ...