Get an IRC cloak for RIT!
by Justin W. Flory
Hey everyone!
As of now, we are officially registered as a project with freenode. As
mentioned before, this also means that we can now request custom
hostname cloaks for members of the RIT community in IRC.
What does this mean? An IRC cloak is like a "mask" for your hostname
whenever you connect to a channel. For example, if I join an IRC channel
without a cloak, it might look like the following:
* jwf (jflory7(a)laptop.student.rit.edu) has joined
If I have a cloak and I am logged into NickServ, it could look like this
instead:
* jwf (jflory7@rit/foss/student) has joined
As of now, we have a few options for people to pick from! If I can
collect a list of usernames and the desired cloaks, I can send this list
to the freenode staff to add the cloaks to your freenode NickServ
accounts. It will help the staff team if we can send them a list at once
instead of doing multiple, one-off requests.
Here's the list of cloaks we currently have available:
* @rit/student
* @rit/professor
* @rit/faculty
* @rit/alumnus
* @rit/alumnae
* @rit/foss/student
* @rit/foss/captain
* @rit/foss/faculty
* @rit/foss/alumnus
* @rit/foss/alumnae
* @rit/ritlug/member
* @rit/ritlug/alumnus
* @rit/ritlug/alumnae
It's also possible to add a Linux distribution or another open source
project community to the cloak, before the last identifier, e.g.
@rit/ritlug/fedora/member or @rit/foss/musicbrainz/member.
If you would like one of these cloaks, please reply back to this email
with your IRC NickServ username and which cloak you would like. :)
Thanks all!
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
6 years, 6 months
RIT cloak
by Adam Hayes
Hi,
Can I get an RIT alumnae cloak? I'm moondoggy on Freenode.
Thanks!
Adam
6 years, 6 months
oops
by Adam Hayes
Oops. I meant /rit/alumnae, not the foss one. I should have studied
FOSS.
moondoggy
6 years, 6 months
Fwd: Tomorrow: Women on Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
by Justin W. Flory
I know this was sent out on Message Center, but just wanted to highlight
this Wikipedia edit-a-thon tomorrow in the spirit of open data. :)
Happening tomorrow (25 March) any time from 10am to 4pm!
Maybe HFOSS students could talk to dzho about having this count as a
meetup credit too.
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Subject: Tomorrow: Women on Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 08:44:19 -0400
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TOMORROW! Women on Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
<http://bit.ly/womenwikirit>
Join The Wallace Center tomorrow in celebrating Women’s History Month by
participating in a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon! Improve the representation of
women on Wikipedia by editing or writing new Wikipedia entries about
notable women or topics related to women.
No experience is necessary! RIT librarians and trained volunteers will
teach participants Wikipedia best practices, how to create an account,
and how to use Wikipedia's editing tools. You can drop in for half an
hour or longer; no need to stay all day.
This event is free and open to the public. People of all gender
identities and expressions are welcome to participate. Refreshments will
be provided.
Women on Wikipedia
Saturday, March 25, 2017
10:00am - 4:00pm
The Wallace Center, 1st floor
Learn More <http://bit.ly/womenwikirit>
Women on Wikipedia is co-sponsored by The Wallace Center, the Center for
Women and Gender, and the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Program
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6 years, 6 months
NASA Space Apps, 29-30 April
by Justin W. Flory
Hey all,
I heard during the FOSS Talk that there are plans for NASA Space Apps
again this year. :) It's an awesome mini-hackathon to pull ideas of
citizens, students, and community members into a variety of topics at a
planetary or beyond level.
https://2017.spaceappschallenge.org/
This event ran last year too, and there were some pretty cool guest
speakers (and Sticky Lips catering if I remember right). We had a team
make it on to the national level too. You can see a little bit more
about what it's like in Rochester here:
https://opensource.com/education/16/5/RIT-nasa-developer-challenge
Just thought this would be a cool thing to share to put on everyone's
radar. :)
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
6 years, 6 months
Apply to be a speaker at All Things Open!
by Justin W. Flory
Hey FOSSers,
I wanted to reach out to everyone on the list about an upcoming
conference in October 23-24, 2017. All Things Open is a conference for,
well, all things open: software, hardware, the web, and more. It's in
Raleigh, North Carolina, so not **too** far of a trip for a FOSS conference.
https://allthingsopen.org/
The call for speakers is open now until March 28th, so it is coming up
soon! But the conference organizers are especially looking for students
and young people to get involved too, so this could be a great
opportunity if you want to try something new and share your knowledge
and experience with the world.
https://allthingsopen.org/call-for-speakers/
If anyone wanted to submit a talk, you could work on putting a proposal
/ abstract together over the weekend or early next week. You could, of
course, ask for feedback and ideas here on the list so we could help you
build a strong proposal. :) But it's a fantastic opportunity and I think
there's a lot of people here in the RIT community who might have more
they could share then they realize.
If you have questions, you're more than welcome to ask! Wanted to throw
this out there while there was still time to think about it. :)
Hope everyone is surviving the first week back of classes!
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
6 years, 6 months
FOSSTalks: Bringing FOSS to Comcast - 3/22 (This Wednesday)
by Daniel Schneiderman
Hey all,
Join RIT’s FOSS@MAGIC program for our March FOSS Talk as we’re visited by Nithya Ruff.
Nithya Ruff has been a mover and shaker in FOSS for most of her career and is currently pioneering Open Source Practice at Comcast. This will be her second effort at leading the move toward Open in a major corporation, having completed a similar effort at SanDisk before moving to Comcast. She’s been an active board member of the Linux foundation for four years and a long-time champion of diversity in tech, most recently having become the Chairperson Diversity and Inclusion for CodeChix.
We’re looking forward to hearing how she’s helping to bring FOSS to Comcast.
Registration for the event is free but registering lets us know how much food to order.
Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fosstalks-bringing-foss-to-comcast-tickets-3...
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fosstalks-bringing-foss-to-comcast-tickets-3...>
Who: Open to the public (not just RIT Students) just be sure to RSVP.
When: Wednesday, March 22nd. 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.
Be sure to save the date for our next hackathon, NASA Space Apps, on April 29th & 30th. Details to be announced soon!
Thanks,
Dan
--
Dan Schneiderman
FOSS@MAGIC Research Associate and Community Liaison
Rochester Institute of Technology
585.478.6898
dan(a)magic.rit.edu<mailto:dan@magic.rit.edu>
magic.rit.edu <http://magic.rit.edu/> I www.rit.edu<http://www.rit.edu/>
6 years, 6 months
Registering RIT as an organization on Freenode
by Justin W. Flory
Hi everyone!
I was doing some research and I had a cool idea about something we could
try to do to better include ourselves with the wider open source
community on Freenode and get some cool perks.
It's possible to file a group registration on Freenode to register an
organization or community on Freenode. The full details can be found here:
https://freenode.net/groupreg
It can be summarized into these points, though:
=== What does registration mean? ===
(1) Represents an official relationship between freenode and your
project or organisation
(2) Requires no special type or level of participation
(3) Is accomplished by discussing your registration with the community team
=== Requirements to register ===
(1) Email to Projects team by representative of RIT (which I confirmed
could be a professor)
(2) Links to relevant websites and other online presences
(3) Links to relevant FOSS work
(4) Provide IRC user to act as group contact and explain their role in
the organization
=== Benefits of registration ===
(1) Additional channel management capabilities (this means any channel
in the #rit-* namespace can be claimed by the registrants)
(2) Group hostname cloaks (more on this below)
So this is everything summarized quickly, but the full policy info can
be found at the link above. What I was hoping to do with this email was:
(1) Get confirmation from SJ / Schneidy to do this, and I can start an
email with the Projects team
(2) To discuss hostname cloak ideas with everyone!
=== Hostname cloaks ===
If you're not familiar with a hostname cloak, it's a way you can mask
your IP address / hostname when connecting to Freenode. It's also a way
to "display" your affiliation or participation in the community too. For
example, hostname cloaks could look something like this:
* jflory7@rit/foss/student
* axk4545@rit/ritlug/member
* serubin@rit/foss/captain
* schneidy@rit/foss/faculty
* dzho@rit/professor
And so on. I thought this could be a cool way to also encourage people
to use IRC and to wear their affiliation across Freenode or wherever
else they decide to join, if they'd like a cloak.
Any other thoughts?
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
6 years, 6 months
