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free interaction design for your open source project

Aug 18th, 2010
by matt.
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During the summer of 2009, I had the good fortune of taking part in the Red Hat POSSE programme, meeting a bunch of excellent open source peeps, and getting a sense for how I might introduce more of my students to the world of open source contribution. This last spring, my colleague and I introduced [...]

OSCON is good

Jul 22nd, 2010
by matt.
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I’ll have to write a longer post later, but I thought I’d just mention that OSCON is a great conference. Our presentation went well, and we’ve had a lot of great conversations with people about all kinds of things in the open source world. More later… for now, it’s time to head out the door. [...]

allegheny students and open source

Apr 12th, 2010
by matt.
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This semester, we’ve introduced 40 students to the Fedora project . By “introduced,” I mean they have been introduced as contributors. I want to point out that for me as a member of the faculty this is 1. hard, 2. a massive leap of faith, and 3. very, very exciting. And, it is all of [...]