• 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 as a part of the HFOSS course we were assigned to read Chapter 3 of Steve Weber's 'The Success of Open Source'. This is just a brief rundown of the chapter and my thoughts. Information Author: Steve Weber Title: The Success of Open Source, Ch. 3 What is Open Source and How Does it Work? URL: http://hfoss-fossrit.rhcloud.com/static/books/Weber- SuccessofOpenSource-... Publish Date: 2004 The Gist This c ...

Tomorrow evening marks the first day of Rosh Hashanah (Happy New Year!) and the middle of the second week of classes so I thought should probably write a blog post to talk about the classes of the new year.... This is a pretty exciting semsester (my first college semester) because almost all of my classes are academically relevant to my major. Other than a Chemistry course I am taking, every class is a computer related course: Applied Programming, C ...

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!) ...

There once was a game called SkyTime. SkyTime was created by a group of brave and super attractive RIT students. This game, being of humanitarian purpose and just cause, was honored by the White House in Washington DC. (You know, the one that is the center of American politics and all of that :D) It is the night before the event, and our fantastic heroine (me) is preparing to leave for the airport. I make a call to check the flight status, but to everyone’s dismay: THE FLIGHT IS CANCELLED. (Cue ...

It is now the end of the ninth week of this summer research program. This summer research project is beginning to fully wrap up. Badges on the XO environment is coming along very nicely. We are very close to being able to fully realize the goal we had with badges but due to complications with the technology we had available to work with some of the grander ideas we had cannot be finished within just this summer. However our goal to have something that runs and stores open badges on the XO is wel ...

Today was a bit of a laid back day due to just how much we worked yesterday. I spent most of the day looking through all the progress we have done to prepare for the presentations we're going to have to give. ...