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.
- 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, …
- GSoC 2016: That's a Wrap!
Tomorrow, August 22, 2016, marks the end of the Google Summer of Code 2016 program. This year, I participated as a student for the Fedora Project working on my proposal, “Ansible and the Community (or automation improving innovation)”. You can read …
- 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 …
- Cześć, Poland! Back to Europe
Earlier this month, I received some of the most exciting news I have had all year. After much finger-crossing and (hopefully) hard work, I am traveling to Kraków, Poland, for the Fedora Project’s annual Flock conference. Flock is described by the …
- GSoC 2016 Weekly Rundown: Breaking Down WordPress Networks
This week, with an initial playbook for creating a WordPress installation created (albeit needing polish), my next focus was to look at the idea of creating a WordPress multi-site network. Creating a multi-site network would offer the benefits of …
- Fedora Ambassadors: Communicating About Design
This week is busy and continues to keep the pace of previous weeks. A lot has happened this week in the Fedora Project and I’ve taken on a few new tasks too. In addition to existing work on Google Summer of Code, Community Operations, Marketing, and …
- 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 …