Posts by 'decause' – Page 2
FOSS@RIT Spring Tour 2013
Posted On: Thu 04 April 2013
It feels like it just started, but the HFOSS Spring course is already past half-done! Perhaps the 13 day excursion to Silicon Valley and Harvard had something to do with that... # Part 1: PyCon 2013: Santa Clara, CA FOSS@RIT took four students out to PyCon 2013. There were two main components to our Lab's involvment at PyCon; the Education Summit, and the Poster Session. Details about the PyCon ...
HFOSS Introduction
Posted On: Thu 07 March 2013
Hi There! My name is Remy, and my handle is decause in most places. This is my first time taking HFOSS for credit, but not my first time being involved in the course. This is my last official course that I need to take to complete my graduate studies here at RIT, and I couldn't think of a class I'd want to end on more than this one :) There are any number of Sugar Activities that I could choose as my favorite, but I'm going to go with some some that I've had the privilege of helping out thro ...
HFOSS Course Begins!
| Event Starts: | 03/05/2013 - 6:00pm |
Timezone: US/Eastern Summary: Start 03/05/2013 - 6 00pm
Timezone US/Eastern
IGM will again be running the course "Humanitarian Free and Open Source
Software Development" this Spring. It'll be taught this year by established
Hacker Justin Sherrill (
Posted On: Mon 28 January 2013
IGM will again be running the course "Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Development" this Spring. It'll be taught this year by established Hacker Justin Sherrill (http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/author/admin). This course provides the novices an opportunity to get started in Open Source, and the pros the flexibility to get deeper into the field. The course has an emphasis on, but is not restricted to, the creation of Free/Open ...
HFOSS Course being offered in Spring Quarter!
NASA SpaceAppsChallenge
| Event Starts: | 04/20/2013 - 6:00pm |
| Event Ends: | 04/21/2013 - 9:00pm |
| Timezone: | US/Eastern |
American Greetings Hackathon
| Event Starts: | 01/18/2012 - 6:00pm |
| Event Ends: | 01/19/2012 - 8:00pm |
| Timezone: | US/Eastern |
Random Hacks of Kindness Global Hackathon: Rochester
Posted On: Wed 21 November 2012
Register Here: http://rhoktheroc2012.eventbrite.com 
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Startup Weekend Syracuse 2012
| Event Starts: | 11/30/2012 - 5:00pm |
| Event Ends: | 12/02/2012 - 8:30pm |
| Timezone: | US/Eastern |
RHoK Global December 2012: Rochester, NY, USA
| Event Starts: | 12/01/2012 - 9:00pm |
| Event Ends: | 12/02/2012 - 4:00pm |
| Timezone: | US/Eastern |
"Your Pixel Ninja Skill Has Increased By 10!"
Posted On: Sat 27 October 2012
These 1200x800ish some-odd pixels may not look like much, but each one was carefully shift+arrowed into it's rightful place, and ctrl+click scaled to just the right size. 
One of the hardest things to give up when I switched to Linux/BSD/FOSS 10 years ago (gasp), was MS Paint. It was the only piece of software I was ever truly proficient with on our family Windows 3.1 box (Solitaire doesn't count obv). Tux Paint never quite filled the gap for ...