This category broadly covers any and all topics to do with Free and Open Source software (FOSS). Topics include software, Open Source, sustainability, community management, experiences from specific communities, contemporary issues, and more.
- First-Ever Overnight Hackathon in Albania for Sustainable Goals
This article was originally published on Opensource.com. Redon Skikuli addresses all attendees in Open Labs to kick off the hackathon. © Eduard Pagria, used with permission The local hackerspace in Tirana, Albania might be small, but they make up for …
- 2016 – My Year in Review
Before looking too far ahead to the future, it’s important to spend time to reflect over the past year’s events, identify successes and failures, and devise ways to improve. Describing my 2016 is a challenge for me to find the right words for. This …
- SpigotMC Goes to California for MINECON
Every year, Mojang holds the annual Minecraft convention, MINECON. MINECON is a convention where Minecraft players, software developers, content creators, and others in the Minecraft gaming world come together for a weekend of panels, activities, …
- Hatchit Puts Open Source Power in Developers' Hands
This post was originally published on OpenSource.com. More and more students are learning about the world of open source through video games. Games like FreeCiv let players build empires based on the history of human civilization while games like …
- How to Set Up GitHub Organizations for Clubs
For many universities and colleges, there are many technical clubs that students can join. Some clubs focus on programming or using programming for collaborative projects. For anything involving code, clubs usually turn to GitHub. GitHub has become …
- How Minecraft Got Me Involved in the Open Source Community
This post was originally published on OpenSource.com. When people first think of “open source”, their mind probably first goes to code. Something technical that requires an intermediate understanding of computers or programming languages. But open …
- Virtual Meetup With WiC, Open Labs, FOSS Wave
Over the past year, I’ve met incredible people from around the world doing great things in their local communities. At my university, the Women in Computing @ RIT program provides networking for students with faculty, staff, and alumni. They also …
- HackMIT Meets Fedora
This post was originally published on the Fedora Community Blog. https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/hackmit-meets-fedora/ HackMIT is the annual hackathon event organized by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, …
- Żegnajcie! Fedora Flock 2016 in Words
From August 2 - 5, the annual Fedora contributor conference, Flock, was held in the beautiful city of Kraków, Poland. Fedora contributors from all over the world attend for a week of talks, workshops, collaboration, fun, and community building (if …
- GSoC 2016 Weekly Rundown: Assembling the Orchestra
This week is the Google Summer of Code 2016 midterm evaluation week. Over the past month since the program started, I’ve learned more about the technology I’m working with, implementing it within my infrastructure, and moving closer to completing my …