Category: FOSS History – About

A Brief History of FOSS@MAGIC: Building an Open-Source Experiential Program Brick by Brick

OLPC was the Trojan Horse to Open Source for Professor Stephen Jacobs, director of RIT’s Lab for Technological Literacy (LTL), the entity in which the FOSS@MAGIC (previously FOSS@RIT) was originally born. Intrigued by the OLPC Jacobs acquired three OLPC XO 1.0 laptops in 2007 via the first “Give One, Get One” program. His intent was […]

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