FOSS @ Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) July 2018

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Fwd: Call for help: Picard 2.0 macOS packaging
by Justin W. Flory 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

Not sure if any of you are familiar with developing or packaging applications for macOS, but if you are, an open source project I love is looking for advice and help on testing the application on some Apple computers and also securely signing the application. The application is Picard, a desktop utility for tagging and sorting music metadata in files using the popular MusicBrainz database. This is a music metadata database used by Spotify, Amazon, Google, the BBC, Last.fm, and countless others. :-) Details are below, if you are interested and maybe know a thing or two about developing for macOS.

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Congratulations Tim and TigerOS Team for accepted talk
by Justin W. Flory 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

Hi all, In case you missed it, I wanted to give a congratulations to Tim and the TigerOS Team for their accepted talk at the Fedora Project Flock conference this August: https://pagure.io/flock/issue/25 Tim will travel to Dresden, Germany and present to the wider Fedora Project upstream community. More details about the conference are here: https://flocktofedora.org/ Congrats, TigerOS Team! -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

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[feedback wanted] Introducing Rochester Fuerte for Hispanic Immigration Month
by Justin W. Flory 30 Jun '18

30 Jun '18

Hi all, Over the next few months, I decided to work on a new project I thought would be interesting, both with a high value and also an opportunity to practice building a full-stack application. I wanted to introduce it here and also put out a call for collaboration if anyone was interested in working on this together. I've named the project "Rochester Fuerte". Its intention is to be an application to list and display hispanic businesses in Rochester, NY to help people support immigrant businesses during Hispanic Awareness Month (Sept. 15 - Oct. 15). The political rhetoric today around immigrants is increasingly difficult, and I felt like we could do more to support hard-working immigrants inside of our own communities (a kind of protest, perhaps). Being more technically-inclined, I thought this would be a fun and valuable way to express that, of using technical powers for good. The project will be open source, and I've set up a GitHub repo already for it: https://github.com/jwflory/rochester-fuerte ¹ There, you can find a project board with some issues with decision-making questions about the project and how to make the next steps. https://github.com/jwflory/rochester-fuerte/projects/1?fullscreen=true I don't have a lot of experience building a full-stack application, so even if you have opinions, that would be a helpful contribution to the early phase of this project. My intent was to work on this independently, gradually, over time, but if you are interested in collaborating or working on it together, I'd love to have a conversation with how you get involved and we can work together. I set up an IRC channel on Freenode (#rochester-fuerte), also bridged with Matrix, if you'd like to join and talk more about the project. https://riot.im/app/#/room/#rochester-fuerte:matrix.org My goal is to have this application ready in time for Hispanic Awareness Month in the US, sometime between September 15 and October 15. Anyways, I wanted to do a short intro for this project here and put it out there, in case anyone else would be interested in working on this over some of their free time this summer and into next semester. Thanks! ¹ My GitHub handle was changed recently: jflory7 => jwflory -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

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