Tuesday, October 19, 2010
The collaboration with RIT's FOSS@RIT campaign I blogged about last week is now the subject of a press relase from the school here. Currently we're at the top of the University homepage! Welcome to all the RIT students who have found Wikiotics through that release. Crossposted with the Wikiotics Foundation blog.
Wikiotics week 2: Talking about the Weather
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Last week Great job last week everyone! We got the Introduction lesson translated into 14 new languages and made five more languages available for Wikiotics users building lessons. This week we’re focusing all that effort on one lesson, talking about the weather: http://wikiotics.org/en/Weather This week Talking about the weather is a daily activity in people’s [...]
Students of Free Software
Thanks to the FOSS@RIT program, Wikiotics is proud to welcome two new developers to the project, Taylor Rose and Nate Case . Both are students at the Rochester Institute of Technology and veterans of the FOSS@RIT program. FOSS@RIT houses an innovative introductory class “Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Development” designed to give students real [...]
Time to Translate!
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
After a productive summer of software building, we would like to introduce the first version of the Wikiotics community site. In order to test everything out and introduce the site’s new capabilities, we’re asking everyone to help out and translate our Introductory lesson into as many languages as possible. If you know how to write [...]
Contributing is giving too
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
After a year of careful planning, and a fair bit of last minute scrambling around, Wikiotics is now a recognized charity in the United States. This is generally the point where new charaties shift into fundraising mode and ask for your support in the form of a check. I'm not going to do that. If [...]