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.
- 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: Community Architecture (CommArch) 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 “Community Architecture” project (shortened to CommArch)! In this project proposal, we take a preliminary look at the …
- 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 …
- The Most Important Part of Your Project Might Not Even Be a Line of Code
Open-source licensing: how does it affect your work? Today’s entry to the blog is sourced from a thread that I posted on the SpigotMC Forums. If you wish to join in the discussion about this, feel free to chime in on the thread or leave a comment on …
- 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 …
- Gotta Badge 'Em All: Speak Up!
This article is part of an ongoing series about how to earn specific Fedora badges. Learn more about the Speak Up! badge! “Speak Up!”: What is it? 🔗 \"Participated in an IRC meeting.\" The Speak Up! badge is categorized as a “Community Badge” and is …