RIT POSSE Day 2
Alrighty….now that we’re through the second day of POSSE, time for a second reflection!
Looking back on today, it was nice to get a little more into the technical side of some of the open source world. I feel that parts of the stuff we covered today might’ve been a little rushed and at the same time, some parts dragged out a little as well. All in all, it was nice to get our hands into the Sugar stuff and also to start toying with git and patching.
As for some of the suggestions I was thinking for the organization of the wiki…I’ll point to Prof. Jacobs post on a way to improve the outline –> http://gryphonscratches.blogspot.com/2010/06/rit-posse-day-2.html
Beyond that, for my project I’m thinking of probably doing a spin off distro tomorrow 
RIT POSSE Day 1
Sitting through the first day for POSSE at RIT. One of our ‘homework assignments’ is to write a blog entry reflecting on today’s activities. This post will be a placeholder until I fill in the rest of it
As per the deliverables for POSSE day 1 (http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_RIT#Deliverables)
Accounts I’ve got registered:
- irc.freenode.net — ganderson
- Blog feed: http://www.geoffreyanderson.net/blog/category/teaching-open-source/
- http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/User:Ganderson (this is also deliverable 2!
) - https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/view/ganderson
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ — gra4497@rit.edu
- http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ — ganderson
- http://git.sugarlabs.org/users/ganderson
- http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Ganderson
And looking back on today….the history and lecture bit at the start was pretty interesting. It definitely got better when Mel had us collaboratively writing stuff down on piratepad because I feel like more of us were actively involved. While the IRC bit was a review for me and the Wiki stuff was pretty simple, I’m looking forward to writing some python for Sugar during this week (and maybe getting a little more involved with that community!).
Beyond that, I got all the accounts I needed, registered (as seen above) and I had some nice idle chat during lunch with some of the other participants at this thing. Tomorrow sounds to be more confusing and leading to a state of being ‘productively lost’.
Memorial Day
Since I wasn’t able to work on memorial day yesterday, I decided that I had a good enough excuse to go see one of the memorial day parades. After a little hunting, Charlotte and I settled on going to the Pittsford parade (and I was thinking of grabbing a bite to eat during it!).
So we drove down Jefferson road into Pittsford only to find that the road towards Main street in Pittsford was already blocked. Thankfully, my GPS figured out how to negotiate us towards the parade route after I took the first turn by the road block. Since we showed up at the start time of the parade, we got stuck watching it from the car in a side street, but that’s okay!
Anyway, when the parade was over, I wanted to show Charlotte Aladdin’s Natural Eatery down by the canal. If you haven’t been there before, go! The food’s delicious, healthy, and most important, cheap! So, after some perusing of the menu, I ended up getting a Falafel pocket pita thing and Charlotte got some amazing wrap with lamb (yum!). While we waited though, I snapped two quick photos of the canal with my phone:
Bridge over the Eerie Canal, as seen from Aladdin's
Eerie Canal as seen from Aladdin's
It was pretty to look at over lunch. As mentioned earlier, if you haven’t been to Aladdin’s Natural Eatery, check it out (http://www.aladdinsonline.com/)!
Hello world!
This is my first blog post! Hopefully I’ll start getting some interesting things going here
-Geoff
