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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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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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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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 project we’re looking at analyzing, Tahrir, and the different criteria we

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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 new ones, and submitting a bugfix. I

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HFOSS: The First Flight

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 Atlanta, GA. Part of the motivation that led me to choose RIT as my university of choice was its participation

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