Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Cheese and Eikiga: The second Look

Last week, I was given an assignment to find out info about cheese an Ekiga. Upon which Mel from TOS looked at the classes submissions and wrote about them in her blog. I learned that it is easier to learn about projects from more experienced users. During the assignment , I was looking at the main pages for both projects to find information on both of them, but found after reading Mel's blog that the info I found was highly misinformed or the information I found I misinterpreted compared to the actual information. Ekiga looked still developing because of the more frequent updates, while cheese looked finished as it was updating less, but I missed that Eikga has been in the works for the past 10 years. My research abilities on finding information about OSS is very bad and needs to be improved. Also consistency between the class and different interpretations on readins also needs to be improved as the data found also contradicts each other, though according to Mel, both statements could be correct. I'm guessing it is a lack on knowledge on the correct place to look for information. Getting inside the circle and used to how everything works will be a daunting task.

An Empty IRC

As part of an assignment, I lurked in A11Y's IRC chat for a 24 hour period. My time of observation was this past weekend from Friday at 18:27 to Sunday 11:04. During that time I lost connection a few times due to campus internet failing twice which seems for about 10 minute periods. Through the weekend no one said anything, but many people came in and out of the client multiple times that weekend. On Friday, most traffic was  between 19:00 and 23:00. traffic did not pick up until 5:12 on Saturday which continued until about 7:30. I then lost connection around 10 reconnecting around 10:15 there was not any more traffic until 12 and then occasionally 1 person entering or leaving each hour for the rest of the day. Sunday had people enter and leave approx every 15 minutes. a11y seems to not be busy during the weekend.

Also gnome-bugsquad seems like a good mailing list to join

Saturday, September 10, 2011

First Blog

This is my first blog for my Software Engineering Course at Western New England University. My goals of this course is to learn more about the process and tool needed to create software and work in an open source environment. I also hope to become more confidant in my ability to  describe myself and my work in a reflection type style of writing. Writing, and escpeically writing about myself is not my forte at any level. Group working and hoping to learn the in and outs of the OSS community are two goals I hope for this semester