This week is our last week of making contributions to scikit-learn for our final project, because we will be one of the first groups to present on Monday. However, this will definitely not be the end of my open source contributions, since through this experience, I have found myself really interested in this field.

This week, I was absent from class due to attending the NDSI conference in Boston, so this is going to be a short reflection on the group project. Apologies for not being able to reflect on the in-class discussion of open source within industry.

This week, we have listened to Christopher Snider’s presentation on the Tidepool project, which is designed to help individuals with diabetes to better manage their condition. His presentation made me realize that open source is much more beyond coding on GitHub, but also a commitment to the society.

This week, we made a report on our contributions to scikit-learn. We were also able to learn about other groups’ progress and their experience. Moreover, we discussed about The Cathedral and the Bazaar, and there are plenty of lessons that I learned from it.

This week, we continued our contributions to scikit-learn. We were able to make pull requests for several issues, but not all of them have been replied. While waiting for the maintainers’ response, we have also found a long-term easy contribution and have planned to work on that.

This week, we are honored to be able to listen to a talk by Jim Hall, founder of the FreeDOS project. I was very curious about how open source projects are initally started, and how they can flourish, and Mr. Hall resolved my doubts. Meanwhile, my teammates and I have started taking issues of scikit-learn, and I have already made a succesful pull request, which is encouraging.

This week, we have been assigned groups for the final open source project. After some discussion with other group members, we have dicided to work on scikit-learn (a.k.a. sklearn), an open source and free machine learning library for Python. In this blog, I’m going to discuss how we determined our project, as well as my hopes and worries about it.

This week, I started evaluating various different open source projects in order to determine one for my final open source project. Given it is not midterm yet, no doubt how much effort it would require to find and work on a suitable open source project. I cannot foresee whether I will be able to successfully contribute to the open source project that I’ve chosen, but as follows are some insights and thoughts that I want to share in the process of looking for them.

This week, we had Mr. Mek Karpeles from Internet Archive/Open Library to share with us the open source project openlibrary. To my surprise, Open Library is completely different from what I thought from its name.

My open source Firefox add-on project YouTube Interface Customizer is finally completed this week through the collboration with my team. I learned a lot from this process, and also from the presentation of other teams.

This week, @Shenghan0329, @rufaida99-k, and I started working on an open source Firefox add-on project called YouTube Interface Customizer, which allows users to customize their YouTube webpage (hide undesired elements, change color themes, modify layout, etc.), and this is my very first open source project as well as my very first experience with Javascript.

Online communities often rely on an explicit set of rules, a.k.a. code of conduct, to regulate the behavior of the communitiy members. Open source software development community is of no exception. While intending to giving the community members a warm feeling, a code of conduct also acts as an enforcement that deal with any community member who does not obey it.

When I decided to enroll this course Open Source Software Development, I did not quite look at the term open source. This is a software development course, and I want to be a software engineer, why not take this course? I thought. But only after the first lecture did I start to think of what open source really means and what it can bring about.