Happy earth day.. to our new contributors!

April 22, 2012 in Spotlight

If you haven't met your green quota, EarthDayMan will crush you.

I’ll be honest, earth day is probably all kinds of awesome, but I’ll only be talking about it for as long as this sentence. For the past year I’ve been enrolled in a year long intensive study on Game Design. In the meantime. With a fancy diploma in hand, I’ll be gradually resuming my manager duties, starting with a big round of “Contributor” badge hand-outs.
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Google Summer of Code 2012

February 6, 2012 in Site & Project

2012.  Its a new year and if the Mayans are right this may be our last chance to be a part of the Google Summer of Code program.  For those of you who aren’t familiar with this event, it is Google’s push to get students into the world of Open Source Software development.  For the past 7 years, Google has matched students with open source projects to work on a set of deliverables during their summer break from university studies.  Each year the size of the project has grown, both in terms of the number of organizations and the number of students (2011 saw 175 OSS projects with 1,115 students).

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Interview with Jeremy “phr00t” – Developer of 3079

February 5, 2012 in Interview

Back in October, a user called “phr00t” wrote a guest post on our blog called The Making of 3079. Since then, the cube based shooter-adventure game set in space known as 3079 has risen to fandom status in the indie circles. In this interview, Jeremy “phr00t” talks about his peculiar road to the fleeting wonder that is online fame.

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