Hi everyone, my name is Olivia Gallucci, and I am a first-year student at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). I am double-majoring in Computing Security and Computer Science. I decided to attend RIT because of its Computing Security program. Also, I liked that RIT offered a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) program. When I visited RIT’s campus, I asked the FOSS telegram/IRC chat if I could talk to someone who is part of the program. Christian Martin and Justin Flory, two recent FOSS@RIT alums, volunteered. I gauged RIT was perfect for me based off these conversations: I was right!
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I am taking this course, so I can learn about open source in an organized manner. Taking a class on FOSS means that I can easily dedicate time to working on open source software. In other words, now that I have this class in my school schedule, I have time set aside to learn about free(dom) software’s development and culture.
I want to learn about the sociology of FOSS development, and why some projects are successful, while others fail. I also want to learn about how I can contribute to open source projects.
Fun fact: I wrote my Common Application essay on FOSS.
This post originated from the deprecated HFOSS’21 blog.
