LibreFoodPantry
One thing I found interesting and surprising from the LibreFoodPantry website was the open source license that the pantry chose for contributors.
I chose to write about this because last fall we had learned about software licenses, including what they are and examples of different ones, and it’s interesting to actually see what a real open source project chose to distribute under. Just looking at the license can tell how the authors intend for their software to be used and distributed, and because LibreFoodPantry chose the creative commons license, it tells us that they want this software to be open and shared freely, under that condition that the derivative works also follow the same conditions.
Thea’s Food Pantry
Simply by clicking on the link to the Thea’s Pantry gitlab page, I could tell that it was very organized and structured in a way to easily navigate, which is very useful and surprised me in a good way.
Since I am going to be using this gitlab page for the whole semester, I really appreciate that it is organized the way it is. Everything is labeled correctly and under the proper subgroups. Each subgroup also has a brief but detailed description about what is stored in it, making it easier to find the correct file quicker. All of these features make life a lot easier when navigating through this gitlab page. I couldn’t imagine trying to work on the same project with an unorganized mess of a gitlab page. It’s really something that I think gets taken for granted when it’s present but extremely noticeable when it’s lacking.
From the blog CS@Worcester – The Science of Computation by Adam Jacher and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.