- 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 …
- Students and Professors Work Across the Aisle During Election Night Hackathon
This post was originally published on Opensource.com. On Tuesday, November 8th, 2016, the FOSS@MAGIC at the MAGIC Center at RIT held the annual Election Night Hackathon. Over 140 students from across campus and across departments gathered together to …
- 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 …
- Achievement Get: Rainbow!
Earlier this month, I received the Rainbow badge in Fedora Badges. Rainbow is the fifth badge in a series for receiving “karma cookies” from others in IRC. Every time I receive a new badge in this series, I like to reflect back on the past and where …
- 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 …
- 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 (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 …
- 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 …
- Fedora Elections 2015: Be Informed!
Fedora Elections are the time to impact the Project. Source: christoph-wickert.de (http://www.christoph-wickert.de/blog/2012/12/07/fedora-elections-dont-forget-to-vote/) Today, the Fedora Elections for December 2015 officially began at 00:00 UTC. …