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 ...

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 ...