decause's blog

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Probably versus Maybe

This week for me has been all about outreach. I truly enjoy the role of storytelling, because I get to participate with the FOSS Community in a different way than committing patches to repos (not that I don't enjoy coding, I'm just not quite as good at expressing my thoughts in python as I am in HTML ;) In the land of FOSS, attribution is the coin of the realm. It is the oil between the gears and pistons. Giving credit where credit is due is the simplest default state of many open licenses and is required for fair use.

I am happy to follow up my last open shift post with a much more delightful one: I successfully deployed a TurboGears2 quickstart, and added a very simple web page that will allow client-side oauth2.0 authentication. I'm about to be late for a sitdown at Kodak Park, so I won't be able to expound upon the (many) merits of openshift and how easy it was to get this running, so suffice it to say, here is a link to the app:

Hello Facebook World, running on OpenShift

After seven tries at getting the foss@rit site migrated to openshift, I must concede... for tonight.

Vanilla openshift quickstarter for drupal

First attempt was editing by hand, and I installed modules and themes after bumbling around in the new (to me) drupal 7 interface.

installed the backup and migrate module, and tried to restore from a mysqldump from this site... and hosed it

destroy the app, start fresh

bumble around til I figured out how to enable phpmyadmin

import the sql backup manually... and hose the site

Right before winter break began, we decided to go out with a bang. We hosted a hackathon for the STEM Video Game Challenge. We had about 2 dozen attendees over the course of the evening, and had about 3 prototype and concept projects go into development by the end.

So, after spending some time pouring over some of the high-profile python projects on GitHub, I found a handful of populars and forked to look for bugs. It was successful!

The FOSSBox is picking up again :) I love when we have foss courses running, as it brings much more traffic through the lab. We're also in the process of bringing in another part-time hire to help with FOSS@RIT/LTL projects. We spent the afternoon going over the basics of git, and some of the projects that Robb will likely be working on this quarter.

I am more than excited to be taking the FOSS projects Seminar course here at RIT. This class is shaping up to be all the things they didn't teach you in school that you need to know when you enter into the world of FOSS.

Syllabus

The RIT Seminar in FOSS Course

Though Seneca county is only 2.5 hours away from Rochester, FOSS@RIT had yet to interact with our neighbors to the southeast, that is until last week. Through Charles Profitt, I was invited along to attend Ithaca's Education Technology Day or EdTechDay for short. EdTechDay is a gathering of education and technology professionals to meet, discuss, and share stories and showcase best practices, hardware, and new tools.