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