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First Flight - Blizzard
I'm Blizzard, and I'm a third year Computer Engineering Technology major. I decided to take the HFOSS course after it was suggested to me by the RIT Linux Users Group. I also am taking a minor in Free and Open Source Software.
Zotero
Zotero is an online bibliography service used in this course for sharing articles. For the purpose of this course, the profesor sent out an invite link to the students. Students were tasked with following this link, and creating an account.
IRC
One of the main communication platforms for FOSS communities on the whole is IRC,
and this includes this course. I personally installed the terminal client weechat
on my personal server. While Telegram is a good service, and I use regularly for
other purposes, separation between school-work and personal work is important,
so a separate IRC client seemed like the right idea. Moreover, since my server is
on essentially 24/7, I still have access to chat logs.
Git/Github
Most FOSS communities use git to control and aid development of their software.
Additionally, most of these projects are hosted on Github. As such, the course
requires us to have some level of experience with these tools. For the purposes of
this course, we were instructed to create a pull request for the courses' website,
adding a yaml file containing the our individual information.
Wordpress
Finally, we're recording most things we're doing for this course on a blog, through the tool Wordpress. (In case you didn't already kjnow, you're reading that blog now!) Creating this blog post required making an account for Wordpress (following another link shared by the professor). Afterwards, it was as simple as making a new post, writing the post, and publishing it.