Last week we were put into our groups for optimizing H/FOSS projects. My group members are Hannah, Chris,Albert, and Matt (click their name to see their blogs on our progress as well). I'm really excited to pick a project, and see how we can make it better. This project is especially important to me, because I do not have a job that relates to computer science at the moment, but doing this will give me insight on how things will work when I graduate and get a job that does.
When picking a project I tried to look for something that was not very mature in terms of coding and function. That way, my team and I could have a big impact on it. I also wanted to pick a project I had a personal connection with.
I liked the Poet Image Description project. It is a project that wants to add image descriptions to e-books, digital textbooks, and websites so they are more accessible to people with disabilities. I make websites sometimes, and I have always wanted to learn how I could make my sites more accessible to people with disabilities. I think working with this particular project would be a good learning experience. I also liked the FOSSology project. It deals with licencing of the projects we are looking at. I think this directly connects with what we are studying this semester.
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