The Rise of Profile Photos

Fri Apr 03 2020

Given enough time in a shower, you develop shower thoughts – but mostly you get pruney fingers. Given the current social distancing measures, everyone has taken to the internet to get their work done. I am now working, taking classes, and hanging out with friends on the internet on a daily basis. The omnipresent prevalence of online platforms has gotten me thinking a lot about how we express our identity on the internet. Specifically, profile pictures have seized my attention lately.

On the internet, you can express yourself in ways that are infeasible in real life. The very notion of a profile with a bio and a brave little emblem representing you at your best is a new paradigm. This gives immense control over your first impressions on the internet– something that we desperately wish for in the real world.

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Community Architecture

Wed Mar 25 2020

This is my submission for RIT’s HFOSS Community architecture project. Due to the COVID situation, several changes have been made since I drafted the project proposal. First, this is no-longer a group project. Second, this project is now more focused on comparing the project architectures of two communities rather than running analytics like git by a bus.

Exploring what works and what does not work for different projects can give us valuable insight into trying to create new communities. This is what is truly beautiful about open-source software in its openness giving us the ability to learn from it.

1 Project Introduction

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Community Architecture Proposal

Thu Mar 05 2020

This is the community architecture proposal for RIT’s HFOSS class.

1 Members

• Jeffery R: (jxr8142)
• Ben G: (bag4482)
• Yann M: (ylm8490)

1.1 Project Selection

We are doing our project on Oh My Zsh. We chose this project because two of our members use Oh My Zsh on a daily basis. We believe that this is a fun project that many people would enjoy using and contributing to.

1.1.1 Description

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HFOSS Quiz 1

Wed Mar 04 2020

Answers to a in-Class quiz taken as a part of RIT’s HFOSS class.

1 Question 1

Expand each of the following acronyms (1 pt each):

• 1.1) IRC – Instant relay Char
• 1.2) FOSS – Free and Open Source Software
• 1.3) OLPC – One Laptop per child
• 1.4) FSF – Free software foundation
• 1.5) PR – pull request

2 Question 2

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RITlug Bugfix

Mon Mar 02 2020

The main goal is this post is to document a bugfix I made for RIT’s HFOSS class. I feel that documenting the process of making a bugfix will help other people looking to contribute towards open source projects.

1 Identify the Bug

The first step in a bug fix quest is to find a bug. If you happen to find a bug, it is important that you check current issues to make sure that that bug has not already been reported. If you have no clue where to begin, I found it helpful to look for issues tagged as help wanted in a repository.

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