Thirty technologists attended the Javascript Survival Guide workshop on February 26 at IT-oLogy. Hosted by the Open IT Lab, the event drew people of all backgrounds and experiences, from the computer science student at the university level to the seasoned web developer. Javascript is an open source client side scripting…
Nearly 20 people attended the Drupal 101 & 102 workshop on Saturday, February 23 at IT-oLogy. Even with the terrible weather outside, attendees of all ages and experience levels gathered in the Distance Learning classroom to learn more. The purpose of the workshop was to introduce the open source Drupal…
The Open IT Lab at IT-oLogy presented a “Version Control/Git/GitHub” workshop on Thursday, January 17. Many computer science students and local IT professionals attended. Version control is a common tool used by software developers to keep track of changes…
23 people attended the Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) workshop held Thursday, November 29 at IT-oLogy. KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux and is open source. Jim Salter, a nationally known open source expert, conducted the workshop and answered questions from attendees. His talk started with an introduction to…
The Open IT Lab hosted 28 students from Fairfield Central High School in Winnsboro County, SC. The trip took place Wednesday, November 28 and was part of a field trip designed to make students aware of career opportunities in the information technology field. Todd Lewis led the students on a…
Attention middle school, high school, and college students interested in application development! IT-oLogy has partnered with the Open IT Lab and the University of South Carolina College of Engineering and Computing to host an Android App Development Contest for all high school, college, post graduate and PhD students. The winning…
25 people attended the Version Control/Git/GitHub workshop held at IT-oLogy on Thursday, October 25. The Open IT Lab hosted the event and Jarrell Waggoner, the Lab’s Program Manager, served as the instructor. The workshop focused on version control, which is a common tool used by software developers to keep track…
Cross-posted from the Open IT Lab News The Open IT Lab joined nearly 300 other teams from over 60 countries around the world in celebrating this year’s Software Freedom Day last Saturday. Software Freedom Day is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software that takes place on the third…
More than 30 people attended the Linux Administration 101 workshop held Thursday, September 13 at IT-oLogy. Attendees included high school and college students, as well as current IT professionals from local companies and government organizations. The workshop meant to familiarize participants with the basics of Linux systems administration with a…
The Open IT Lab spoke to more than 40 municipal technology managers at the SC Municipal Technology Association’s annual meeting on Thursday, September 6. The meeting took place in Charleston at the Francis Marion Hotel. The topic of discussion was the definition of open source, the top 10 open source…
