FOSS @ Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) July 2017

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François Piednoël leaves Intel, shares wisdom
by Justin W. Flory 24 Jul '17

24 Jul '17

Hey FOSSers, hope your week has been going well so far! In case you missed it, François Piednoël left Intel after 20 years on Friday. Piednoël helped champion a lot of the innovation with Intel's chipsets in the past two decades. https://www.techpowerup.com/235385/francois-piednoel-quits-intel On Twitter, he was sharing some of his "lessons learned" from working in the industry for twenty years and advice to share with younger people in the IT world. The tweets aren't threaded together, but you can find them below: https://twitter.com/FPiednoel/status/888475767058845697 https://twitter.com/FPiednoel/status/888804548835368961 https://twitter.com/FPiednoel/status/889158252713267202 https://twitter.com/FPiednoel/status/889159697634177024 https://twitter.com/FPiednoel/status/889175832958312451 https://twitter.com/FPiednoel/status/889176535139106816 https://twitter.com/FPiednoel/status/889516638990614528 https://twitter.com/FPiednoel/status/889541852600217601 https://twitter.com/FPiednoel/status/889566638340579328 Thought I would pass this along. As always, keep the FOSS flag high! -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

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Book Update (and preorder!)
by Nate Levesque (RIT Student) 13 Jul '17

13 Jul '17

Howdy FOSSers! A little while back I mentioned I was working on writing a book about net neutrality. I have an update on that! It's now available for preorder and will be released August 7th. Store links (B&N, Amazon, iBooks, Smashwords, and Kobo) are at http://book.thenaterhood.com. If you order from Smashwords you can use the code SX37X for 25% off the preorder until July 20th. Just be aware that if I publish updates to the book after release you'll need to go and get them (updates are free) versus getting them automatically like you would from say, Amazon. The code only works for Smashwords, I'm not able to issue codes for other places. If you're one of the awesome people who offered to beta read, I still need you! This is only a pre-release so your feedback is still welcome and needed. I'll be pushing updates to the book up until release. If you want to give me feedback, please try to send it over by the end of the month so I have time to update the book before release. -- Nate Levesque RIT Software Engineering '16 *http://www.natelevesque.com <http://www.natelevesque.com>* ngl3477(a)rit.edu

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Searching for beta readers
by Nate Levesque (RIT Student) 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

Hey FOSSers! Over the last six months, I've been writing a book on net neutrality. It's been super secret—until now! If you follow my blog, you've seen some blogified exerpts from my first draft. I'm hoping to publish it this summer, maybe towards the end of July. But first, I need people to tell me if it sucks—and it might, so be honest. That's what beta readers do! If you're interested, give me a reply and I'll reach out directly. You'll get a PDF of the latest revision and if you give me feedback, a final copy of the book once it's done. It's a full-length nonfiction book at just over 30,000 words (about 125 printed book pages). I'm hoping for some feedback over the next few weeks. If I get a huge response, I may not take everyone, but we'll see when we get there. For full disclosure, publishing arrangements are not final, but I'm hoping to offer it DRM-free and with a creative commons license, though it likely won't be free in price.

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Peer review of my Python script?
by Justin W. Flory 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

Hey all, Hope everyone's summers are going well, wherever you all happen to be! I was working on some side projects this weekend, and since I know a lot of Pythonistas are floating around #rit-foss, I thought I'd ask here for some feedback on a Python script I put together tonight. I was hoping to get some feedback on it before I actually put it to use, as I'll be running it against a few thousand files, and if I made a silly mistake, it would be better to stop it early than to just "send it to prod". :) There's more details about the script and how I plan to use it in the pull request. If anyone with even a little bit of Python knowledge could check out my PR and give me some feedback on my script, that would be very appreciated! I tried to keep it easy to read as well. Thanks all. https://github.com/jflory7/infrastructure/pull/6 -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

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