- 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 …
- 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 …