FOSS @ Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) February 2017

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FOSS Talks - Round Table on Net Neutrality & the F.C.C.
by Daniel Schneiderman 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

Hi all, We’re excited to announce our next monthly FOSS Talk! Join us on Wednesday, February 15th, from 4pm - 6pm, for a roundtable discussion on Net Neutrality & the F.C.C. We'll be discussing what it is, why it so important and how can we protect it? Pizza will be provided. Registration for the event is free but registering lets us know how much pizza to order: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fosstalks-net-neutrality-the-fcc-round-table-t… Who: Open to the public (not just RIT Students) just be sure to RSVP. When: Wednesday, February 15th, 4:30pm-6pm. Where: RIT Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction, and Creativity (MAGIC). Building 87, Room 1600. Parking is available in "S" Lot, near crossroads dining hall. Additionally, we would like to invite to join us for our weekly FOSS@MAGIC hours in GOL-2500 every Wednesday from 4pm-6pm. We hope to see everyone on Wednesday! Thank you, Dan -- Dan Schneiderman FOSS@MAGIC Research Associate and Community Liaison Rochester Institute of Technology 585.478.6898 dan(a)magic.rit.edu magic.rit.edu <http://magic.rit.edu/> I www.rit.edu<http://www.rit.edu/>

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Get interviewed by Mozilla about campus FOSS activity!
by Justin W. Flory 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

Hey all, This was something that originally popped up in the /r/RIT subreddit and was put into an issue on our fossbox-tasks issue tracker by dzho, but I wanted to send this here to raise awareness for it while the window is still open. To quote directly from the subreddit post… * * * * * The Mozilla Campus Clubs team (https://campus.mozilla.community/) is recruiting students who are interested in participating in, or are already active in, on-campus Open Source development communities for a study. We want to learn what types of projects motivate you, and what Mozilla can do to help support those projects. We are conducting a series of 1 hour interview sessions. The interviews will take place remotely via Google Hangouts or another video conference platform. Interviewees will be compensated for their participation. If you are interested in participating, please fill out this recruitment survey (it will take less than 5 minutes): https://goo.gl/forms/mpaHC9VP0JjRP7Kz2 * * * * * Hope some of you find this interesting or something you want to consider adding your input to! Thanks to all the folks who have raised this to our attention. :) -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

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Fwd: [Floss-seminar] navigating Mailman using multiple addresses
by Justin W. Flory 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

Forwarding this to this list as well, to help make it visible on a public archive. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Floss-seminar] navigating Mailman using multiple addresses Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 15:43:19 +0000 From: D. Joe <deejoe(a)mail.rit.edu> To: floss-seminar(a)lists.rit.edu This is a FAQ that probably affects most who attempt to use RIT's GNU Mailman instance to run a true discussion (as opposed to just a distribution) mailing list. If anyone knows of this being documented somewhere else, please offer pointers. In the meantime: It seems quite common for people to use a Google account with their RIT email address. In this example, I'll use as the local part of most of these addresses an example DCE* called "dce5678". So, the canonical RIT email address as best I can tell, what shows up in SIS and such, is dce5678(a)rit.edu the corresponding Gmail address for that would then be dce5678(a)g.rit.edu Some of us have also taken advantage of the ability to set a customized local part of an address, by using the mail.rit.edu subdomain. So, if dce stood for the longer name Dolph C. Egfal, then if Dolph might have gone in and set up the alias dolph(a)mail.rit.edu to forward to dce5678(a)rit.edu. This is where things get fuzzy for me, since I do not use the RIT-associated Gmail system (in part because of the mess it makes of things like this, but also for reasons well beyond the scope of this discussion). The problem I've seen is that people will enter one of the above addresses into Mailman to subscribe themselves, but Mailman, as an anti-spam measure, can be configured only to accept mail from a subscribed address. You might see where this is going: With people using any of 3 different addresses, some skew happens, and Mailman rejects email. For instance, if Dolph suscribes as dce5678(a)rit.edu but then sends email via Gmail, what shows up as their From: address might be dce5678(a)g.rit.edu So, this Gmail address would need to be subscribed too/instead. Further, if Dolph has the mail.rit.edu alias configured, they might instead need to subscribe using dolph(a)mail.rit.edu One thing that makes this a bit hard to track is that we are changing out both the local part (dce5678 vs dolph) as we are changing out the domain part (rit.edu vs g.rit.edu vs mail.rit.edu) This makes it difficult to keep straight, because sometimes we are changing both (dce5678@rit -> dolph(a)mail.rit.edu) and sometimes we are changing out just one (dce5678(a)rit.edu -> dce5678(a)g.rit.edu) If you run into trouble with this, please include as detailed a problem report as you can, including either full text of any error messages, email headers, etc. If you don't know how to view email headers in your mail client, please look up how to do that, or let us know what email client you are using and we can try to help you. Also, screenshots of settings and error messages can be very helpful (though please take some care not to send screenshots containing confidential information, eg, cleartext passwords). Feel free to send me such reports and requests off-list. Hope that helps, -- Joe * Incidentally, I've found the term "dce" seems rapidly to be losing its currency. It refers, presumably, to its origins in these kinds of systems at one point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Computing_Environment But start.rit.edu is today showing me a Capitalized Term that presumably meant to confer some sort of Phrasal Official Status: RIT Computer Account _______________________________________________ Floss-seminar mailing list Floss-seminar(a)lists.rit.edu https://lists.rit.edu/mailman/listinfo.mmcgi/floss-seminar

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FOSS @ Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) February 2017