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.
- Setting Up Vagrant for Testing Ansible
As part of my Google Summer of Code project proposal for the Fedora Project, I’ve spent a lot of time learning about the ins and outs of Ansible. Ansible is a handy task and configuration automation utility. In the Fedora Project, Ansible is used …
- Google Summer of Code, Fedora Class of 2016
This summer, I’m excited to say I will be trying on a new pair of socks for size. Bad puns aside, I am actually enormously excited to announce that I am participating in this year’s Google Summer of Code program for the Fedora Project. If you are …
- Going to Bitcamp 2016
Over the weekend of April 9th - 10th, the Fedora Project Ambassadors of North America attended the Bitcamp 2016 hackathon at the University of Maryland. But what is Bitcamp? The organizers describe it as the following. Bitcamp is a place for …
- The Night I Became a Hacker
On the night of April 15th, 2016, I officially became a hacker. Ever wonder what being a hacker is all about? Wonder no more. How to be hacker 🔗 You may ask yourself, how does one become a hacker? How do you become 1337? The answer might be simpler …
- BrickHack 2016
Last month at the Rochester Institute of Technology, BrickHack 2016 came to a close. BrickHack is an annual hackathon organized by students at RIT. Close to 300 people attend every year. This year was BrickHack’s second event. BrickHack 2016 and …
- HFOSS: Quiz #2
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 …
- HFOSS: Final Project Proposal
What is this? 🔗 This post serves as the project proposal for me and my team’s Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Development “Final Project”. In this project proposal, we take a look at the game idea we are looking at completing for this …
- Achievement Get: Pizzelle!
The Pizzelle badge (https://badges.fedoraproject.org/badge/pizzelle-cookie-iv), in all of its crumbly, delicious awesomeness Today, I received the Pizzelle badge in Fedora Badges. I was awarded with Pizzelle after a short “karma storm” in the EMEA …
- HFOSS: Community Architecture Team Project Report
For the Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Development (HFOSS) course at the Rochester Institute of Technology, we were tasked with the Community Architecture (CommArch) project. For this project, we were tasked with analyzing an open source …
- Analyzing Fedora's Impact at FOSDEM and Beyond
Conference goers attend the FOSDEM conference in Brussels, Belgium. Yesterday, Fedora contributor and CommOps team member Bee Padalkar published an article on her blog about measuring the impact of Fedora’s participation at the FOSDEM conference in …