Open Source SIG
About
The Open Source Special Interest Group is a collection of people and events related to Open Source Software and Hardware. Currently we are not meeting regularly at the moment but work with other groups and meetings. Let us know what you think, feel free to add or request additions to this page.
Check out all the related channels on slack. #elab #coders #recreational_sysadmin #media_zone
Group Projects and Interests
The topics are not going to be only focused on individual software projects, instead actually many areas of computing that Open Source touches.
A script that sends recent results of a Twitter search to a Slack channel. This project has since stopped running, I think.
Git Empowerment
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
Git is lightning fast and has a huge ecosystem of GUIs, hosting services, and command-line tools.
i3 Detroit has a number of software projects, most of which are hosted on the official i3Detroit GitHub organization and it is of course strongly encouraged to be used for group projects. I am also encouraging the use of the i3testing GitHub organization, for insane forking, branching, and merging tests. So jump in there, wreak some havoc, and learn.
Of course there are many other git hosting services and one of the great things about git is that you can use many of them at once or none of them!
GNU and BSD advocacy
Do you cringe when people only speak about Linux and not GNU distributions with Linux Kernels or BSD projects with Mach kernels? :| There's good reason, and it seems to be related to a lack of education on the topic. We will discuss open source software in terms of GNU, BSD, the differences between the GPL and the BSD or MIT software licenses, as well as the different paradigms in kernel topology.
Related Meetups
We also recommend want to let everyone know about related user group meetings in our area.
Mug.org
The Michigan User Group, meets online on the second Tuesday of every month and has been doing so for a long time! No membership required, you can join the zoom meeting or watch live (or later) on youtube.
Empug.org
The Eastern Michigan Python User Group, meets in person on the second Saturday of every month, usually at i3Detroit. Also no membership required, you can join us anytime. We sometimes have planned presentation and other times just open discussion. Sharing your code, in any state, is always encouraged.