Visualizing Data, Rearchitecting Stacks, and Translating Music at HackUpstate HackUpstate is a regional hackathon with the mission > "to unite and facilitate collaboration among greater Upstate New York hacker communities. In doing so, we aim to contribute to the growth of Upstate NY Tech sector, and create a robust network of technologists and tech companies." ...

• 10 VM's deployed (we have virtual infrastructure now!). * MediaGoblin Server stood up, and pics/videos/press are being uploaded as we speak. http://yacht.rit.edu:8080 * 2 Conference Invites (one at NASA Ames Research HQ!!!) * 2 more class guest lectures scheduled for me to give in the next 3 weeks. * 2 guest lectures (one from Red Hat, and one from Facebook) for me to receive in my course in 2 weeks. * 40+ Pull requests merged in my HFOSS Course ...

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!) ...

The RIT Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction & Creativity (MAGIC) is pleased to announce that a student-led project entitled “Sky Time” has been selected for inclusion in the White House Champions of Change event on July 23rd in Washington, D.C. SkyTime is an educational game for the Sugar Desktop Environment running on the XO laptop of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative. The event celebrates the best projects to emerge from the nationwi ...

Timezone: US/Eastern Summary: Start 09/21/2013 - 12 00pm

Timezone US/Eastern

What Join local FOSS Community folks for a Celebration of Software Freedom! There will be hacking, installfests, food, design contests, prizes, and more!

Where Our event will be taking place in the newly opened RIT MAGIC Center ...

Timezone: US/Eastern Summary: Start 04/17/2013 - 7 00pm

Timezone US/Eastern

RIT to host Reading and Book Signing with Walter Bender, Executive Director

of SugarLabs and Co-Founder of One Laptop Per Child

• WHAT Free book reading and signing
• WHEN 7 00 p.m., Wednesday April 17th
• WHERE Golisano ...