These posts focus towards technical audiences. They are broadly about technology, such as how-to articles or an overview of Linux packaging. Some articles are related to culture and contemporary issues in the technology industry.
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …