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 experience with Fedora, I was able to installed Sugar on my laptop which allows me to switch between the Sugar and Fedora environments to test Lemonade Stand, the project I am working on this summer, as if I was playing it on the XO. Once set up, my team and I playtested Lemonade Stand for about a hour to get an idea and a feel for how the game played and any potential features we would like to teak, improve, or add. Our primary goal is hocking up Mozilla Open Badges to the game so we will be able to award badges for accomplishments within not only Lemonade Stand, but hopefully any XO game. After playtesting came our first brainstorm of things we would like to do to the game. We threw down any comment or idea that arose into a spreadsheet to keep an active list.
This brings us to the doomsday, packing up the FOSSbox :( Nobody wanted to pack up or move the location of the FOSSbox, but we were not in control of that. We successfully organized and cleaned up everything that we wanted to to make the next day, moving day, as easy and fluid as possible. After everything was moved to our new location, this is when we took a look at our list of ideas and began to prioritize them. We worked with Professor Stephen Jacobs to help group our ideas from must haves, to things that would be nice, to things that would wish or want to do. I am began to work on the new Lemonade Stand structure diagram which will be finished within the next week.
After moving came the Civic Hackathon! I was not able to physically be there, as my younger sister was graduating high school, but I was able to work remotely and join in on the Sky- Time project and hack away on it! I quickly picked up the project and began adding some improvements that the team and I came up with. I will be posting more about this in the week to come as I will continue to hack away at it until Friday when we plan on releasing the improved version!
I am very happy with my first week and cannot be more excited for the upcoming weeks and what I will be doing to help change lives around the world working with FOSS@RIT as well as bright and intelligent individuals!
Also, as I was travelling home for my sister's graduation, I caught a quick picture of a familiar sight ;)
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