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 work on a range of civic projects as the election night results

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SpigotMC goes to California for MINECON

SpigotMC goes to California for MINECON

Every year, Mojang holds the annual Minecraft convention, MINECON. MINECON is a convention where Minecraft players, software developers, content creators, and others in the Minecraft gaming world come together for a weekend of panels, activities, shows, and most importantly, comradery. I traveled to Anaheim, California to see the SpigotMC team

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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 Minetest emulates Minecraft in an open source block-building sandbox. Students are

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All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone (2007) by Explosions in the Sky

Converting sounds into words: All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone

The dancer gracefully glides across the stage, with a slow but determined gait radiant with purpose. The movement is not her own, but neither is it forced. The sound uncoils itself as a rope and instructs the dancer forward, synchronizing her movement with the delicate pressure of the pianist’s fingers.

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How to set up GitHub organization for clubs

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 the standard for open source project hosting by thousands of projects in the

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A daytime photograph of a large field. The field is divided into two halves. The left half of the image shows the field in a vibrant green, covered in thick grass. The right half of the image shows the field in decay, colored brown with dead grass. A caption appears at the top of the image, reading "light/dark."

Light/Dark

This post is published as part of a personal archival project of my poetry and other creative works. This poem was written in October 2016.

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How Minecraft got me involved in the open source community (my open source story)

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 source is a broad concept that goes beyond only binary bits and bytes. Open source

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A nighttime photograph. In the center of the photo, there is a long road leading into the horizon, with reflectors placed in sequence alongside the road. To the sides of the road, tall trees tower toward the sky. They are too dense to see to what is on the other side. In the sky, there are too many stars to count. The nighttime sky is dotted across with small stars. The road ahead is lit somewhat, likely by the headlights of a car traveling down the road through the darkness.

Willful Winds

This post is published as part of a personal archival project of my poetry and other creative works. This poem was written in October 2016.

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Virtual meetup with WiC, Open Labs, FOSS Wave

Virtual meetup with WiC, Open Labs, FOSS Wave

Over the past year, I’ve met incredible people from around the world doing great things in their local communities. At my university, the Women in Computing @ RIT program provides networking for students with faculty, staff, and alumni. They also help advance women in computing through community outreach. I’ve also

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HackMIT 2016 meets Fedora

HackMIT meets Fedora

This post was originally published on the Fedora Community Blog. HackMIT meets Fedora HackMIT is the annual hackathon event organized by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. HackMIT 2016 took place on September 17th and 18th, 2016. This year, the Fedora Project partnered with Red Hat

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