Articles in this category are biased towards education. They mostly focus around my own experiences as a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, such as academic or project work I’m doing. It may include other general content.
- Why I Love WiCHacks
Two weekends ago, from February 27th to the 28th, the Women in Computing program at the Rochester Institute of Technology hosted their third annual WiCHacks hackathon. WiCHacks is a women-only hackathon open to university students and high school …
- HFOSS: Quiz #1
In the Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Development (HFOSS) course at the Rochester Institute of Technology, quizzes are in the form of blog posts submitted during the class period. The room stays quiet, but it is an open IRC quiz, so many …
- 2015 - My Year in Review
I originally began drafting this post 900 miles away from my current location. It was an hour until the New Year and I was trying to put together a rough outline of the things that made 2015 such an incredible year for me. However, for reasons I …
- HFOSS: Smoke Test an XO Laptop
The XO laptop deployed by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program For the next homework assignment in my Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Development (HFOSS) course, we were tasked with running a smoke test of the XO laptops we are …
- HFOSS: Double Bugfix
This article is a further addition to the series of blog posts for my Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Development course at RIT. For this week’s homework, we are tasked with finding an open source project, looking at known bugs or finding …
- HFOSS: Reviewing "What Is Open Source?", Steve Weber
Steve Weber This blog post is part of an assignment for my Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Development course at the Rochester Institute of Technology. For this assignment, we are tasked with reading Chapter 3 of Steve Weber’s “The …
- HFOSS: The First Flight
FOSS @ MAGIC (http://magic.rit.edu/foss/), the program that hosts the FOSS minor This past year, I enrolled as a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. For me, this is quite a distance from my hometown just outside of …