Monday 8 December 2014

Project Release 0.4

In my project release 0.4, I still worked on the webmaker app project. I was working on the issue#569, which are the UI adjustments on Sign In. The code that I fixed is in webmaker-login-ux, which webmaker app uses for log in. My pull request is here. And the screenshot after fixing is as follows:


Friday 5 December 2014

Changes in Open Source in Last 3 Months

In this semester, I had the opportunity to take David Humphrey’s OSD600. In this course, I learned the culture of open source community and how to involve in the development of an open source project. Open source model becomes more and more popular. And a lot of companies have open-sourced the software. Although, it’s been only three months since I started learning open source development. The changes in the open source community are large and obvious.

In this October, the 13th FSOSS conference was held in Seneca@York campus. I participated as a volunteer. There were more than 200 registered audience, nearly a hundred more than the number in last year. From the number of FSOSS participants, we can see there are more and more people interested in the open source.

Moreover, the biggest news in open source community during last three month was that Microsoft announced that it made the full .NET server core stack open source for cross-platform Nov. 12, 2014. Developers can begin engaging with breadth of .NET open source project at Github. It uses MIT License, which is one of most popular license in open source projects, instead of its own open source license in the dotnet project.  That was the big step for Microsoft in the open source community. It is also a big sign that open source is getting widely recognized and adopted as an efficiency development model and in the software development industry since Microsoft, the top company leads the development model in the industry always, starts moving steps into the open source community. It is anticipant that there will be more and more companies and developers will participate the open source community.


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