October 2019 - FOSS @ Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)

Fwd: Women students--please read! Your participation is crucial

by Justin W. Flory

This was on another external list I'm on, sharing it on here too. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Women students--please read! Your participation is crucial Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 12:43:18 +0000 From: Silvia Benso <sxbgsl(a)rit.edu> Dear women students, The Presidents’ Commission on Women at RIT is inviting you to a dinner in preparation of a Symposium on women students at STEM universities—see message below. Please *reply by Oct. 31* (mbbeme(a)rit.edu). Thanks! It is your chance to be heard…. Please consider attending. Best, Silvia Benso, Director, WGS Program The President’s Commission on Women seeks the advice of RIT’s women students in the planning of its upcoming symposium on Women Students at a STEM University Please join us for dinner and conversation at 6:00 p.m. on one of the following dates: Monday, November 4th Wednesday, November 6th Tuesday, November 12th Wednesday, November 13th Thursday, November 14th The event will gather all interested members of the RIT community to explore the topic “building a university culture that maximizes the wrap-around success of its women students.” By “wrap-around success,” we mean choosing the right school (prospective students); being comfortable and academically successful in that school’s culture (current students); and finding professional success after graduation (alums). RSVP by Thursday October 31: Margaret Bailey at mbbeme(a)rit.edu or Kit Mayberry at kjmgpt(a)rit.edu n <mailto:mbbeme@rit.edu>

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[XPOST] Help wanted: Publish FIO event report on MAGIC blog!

by Justin W. Flory

CROSSPOST: https://fossrit.community/t/help-wanted-publish-fio-event-report-on-magic... ===== Hi all! We are looking for a volunteer to help write an event report about The Future is Open to publish on the FOSS@MAGIC blog! Did you go to The Future is Open 2019 this past weekend? Take some good notes and snap some pictures? Share some of the high-level takeaways and summarize what happened for the rest of the community. You’ll also get attribution credit for your report obviously. :slightly_smiling_face: Starting with a shared, collaborative document like a Google Doc is enough. If you’re interested, please let me know and we can follow-up offline! -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory justinwflory.com TZ=America/New_York Pronouns: he/him/his

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The Future is Open: Pre-conference pizza social

by Justin W. Flory

Hi FOSSRIT community and Future is Open presenters, This Thursday, 24 October, join the RIT FOSS community for a "FOSS Hours" pizza social from 5pm-7pm at the MAGIC Spell Studios, MSS-3190. Join us for some pizza and meet-and-greet with RIT FOSS students, faculty, and alums. We also extend an invitation to our speakers and panelists for The Future is Open if you are already in Rochester. We are also looking for a volunteer to moderate a lightning talk track during the conference, so if you are interested, let us know during FOSS Hours. ## Getting here Directions: https://goo.gl/maps/VAKGrxnyMrCoiiFu7 https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/9196594 The room number is 3190. It's the second floor of the MAGIC Spell Studios, towards the corner window. ## Spread the word! Help us spread the word for The Future is Open 2019! Share the event schedule on social media and tag the @RITMAGIC handle in your posts! https://fossrit.github.io/events/2019/10/26/the-future-is-open/ -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory justinwflory.com TZ=America/New_York Pronouns: he/him/his

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[XPOST] Future is Open 2019 schedule is LIVE! + free tickets!

by Justin W. Flory

CROSSPOST: https://fossrit.community/t/future-is-open-2019-schedule-is-live-free-tic... ==== Hey all! On behalf of the FOSS initiative at the RIT MAGIC Center, we are proud to present The Future is Open 2019 at the RIT campus on Saturday, October 26th from 10am to 5pm. The schedule is live on the FOSS@MAGIC website. For more info, check it out online and see who is speaking and on what topics. Don’t forget to register for your free tickets on Eventbrite so we order enough food: https://fossrit.github.io/events/2019/10/26/the-future-is-open/ -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory justinwflory.com TZ=America/New_York Pronouns: he/him/his

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Fwd: [RITlug] Week #7: FOSS History

by Justin W. Flory

Hey, check out this talk on some FOSS History in RITlug tomorrow. Details below. :) -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [RITlug] Week #7: FOSS History Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 19:10:59 +0000 From: ritlug(a)gmail.com Hey Ritluggers, This week we have a guest speaker giving a talk on the history of FOSS. D. Joe Anderson (deejoe, deej0e, dzho etc) is currently a homemaker. One of the original members of Interlock Rochester, Rochester’s first hackerspace, Joe has been teaching the Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Development course (aka, HFOSS*) since Fall 2015. Nearly as old as Unix, Joe began computing in the 8-bit micro era, when that was still a fringe personal pursuit, and just as the tenets of free software were being formulated. Of course, he knew nothing of this at the time. A student of many disciplines, educated in chemistry and math, he was continuing work in applied scientific computing just over the hill from Silicon Valley right around the time “open source” was first repurposed to sell free software to venture capitalists. He and Linus Torvalds drank in some of the same establishments, just never at the same time. With any luck, his talk will give some hint as to how the histories of computing and so-called “intellectual property” law collided to form the free and open-source software movements. * IGME-582, add it to your Spring 2020 shopping cart! Hope to see you all there! * Jeffery Russell (@jrtechs)

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Keep up with The Future is Open on the new website!

by Justin W. Flory

Hi folks! I wanted to highlight some work that Christian Martin did this weekend for an official event website/homepage for The Future is Open: https://fossrit.github.io/events/2019/10/26/the-future-is-open/ Feel free to share this link around and keep an eye out for a final schedule to appear there soon. We'll keep things updated there leading up to the conference. Thanks Christian for volunteering on this one. \o/ -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory justinwflory.com TZ=America/New_York Pronouns: he/him/his

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[XPOST] Get free tickets to The Future Is Open 2019 - Sat, 26 Oct @ 10am-5pm

by Justin W. Flory

CROSSPOST: https://fossrit.community/t/get-free-tickets-to-the-future-is-open-2019-s... ===== Hi folks! Join the RIT community on Saturday, Oct. 26th at MAGIC Spell Studios to discover free and open source software and culture in Rochester. Register now for your free lunch ticket and a seat at this year’s conference: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-is-open-2019-tickets-75016553531 -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory justinwflory.com TZ=America/New_York Pronouns: he/him/his

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