Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Class of 2016, GSoC 2016

GSoC 2016 Weekly Rundown: Assembling the orchestra

This week is the Google Summer of Code 2016 midterm evaluation week. Over the past month since the program started, I’ve learned more about the technology I’m working with, implementing it within my infrastructure, and moving closer to completing my proposal. My original project proposal details how I am working

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Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Class of 2016, GSoC 2016

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 extensively in Fedora’s infrastructure. But if

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Throwback draft: An untitled poem

This post is published as part of a personal archival project of my poetry and other creative works. This poem was written in May 2016. I was cleaning out my saved notes on Telegram and found this untitled poem.

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Halo 3: ODST Original Soundtrack review and recommendation

Tribute to the Halo 3: ODST soundtrack

The time is nearing 2:00am on a Wednesday morning. Outside is dark, a swirling mist of rain and blurred lights. As I stare out the window, the white light from my laptop illuminates my face. Around me, a room that is as quiet as the deserted roads and parking lots

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Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Class of 2016, GSoC 2016

Google Summer of Code, Fedora Class of 2016

This summer, I’m excited to say I will be trying on a new pair of socks for size. Bad puns aside, I am actually enormously excited to announce that I am participating in this year’s Google Summer of Code program for the Fedora Project. If you are unfamiliar with Google

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Going to Bitcamp 2016

Over the weekend of April 9th – 10th, the Fedora Project Ambassadors of North America attended the Bitcamp 2016 hackathon at the University of Maryland. But what is Bitcamp? The organizers describe it as the following. Bitcamp is a place for exploration. You will have 36 hours to delve into

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The night I became a hacker

On the night of April 15th, 2016, I officially became a hacker.

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Fedora and Mozilla hack session at BrickHack 2016, RIT

BrickHack 2016

Last month at the Rochester Institute of Technology, BrickHack 2016 came to a close. BrickHack is an annual hackathon organized by students at RIT. Close to 300 people attend every year. This year was BrickHack’s second event. BrickHack 2016 and Fedora This year, I attended with the Fedora Project team,

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HFOSS: Quiz #2

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 of the students collaborated with each other

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HFOSS: Final 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 “Final Project“. In this project proposal, we take a look at the game idea we are looking at completing for this project, based on the New York 4th

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