Thursday, 26 January 2017

My first contribution to open source community

I DID IT - I have finally made my first contribution to the open source community. The steps to contribute to an open source community is long and hard - or so I thought - but it completely surprised me. With little knowledge on how to use github, I was able to make a very small contribution to the Bluebird community.

What did I do? Well, I saw that their package.json file was missing some keywords. It was not a bug or anything. I just felt that it required additional keyword, and so I forked the bluebird repository, and cloned it to my local computer. This allowed me to edit the .json file easily. After editing, I pushed the file into my github repository. Than I submitted a pull request to the bluebird admin.

Will he accept my pull request? It has been few days so far, but it does not seem like he will accept it anytime soon. He hasn't declined yet either. We'll just have to wait and found out!

Friday, 13 January 2017

DPS909 Lab1

Ever wanted to slack off at work without getting caught by your boss? Or wanted to browse websites that is not relevant to your work?

BossSensor enables user to automatically switch their desktop screen when your boss approaches you. It takes a picture of a person approaching you in real time. Then the model detects and recognizes the face of the taken image and compare it to the image of your boss. If the recognition results as your boss, it switches the desktop screen to your work task.

This project started on July 03 2016 and it is written in Python. So far, it has 1135 stargazers and it has been forked by 234 fork attempts. The project is posted on Github - BossSensor.

This would be one of the project I would definitely like to tryout at work! You can find more information about BossSensor here.

Hello, my name is John (Bohoon) Kim. I am a 3rd year student enrolled in BSD program from Seneca College.