What I found interesting about the website was the mission statement and how it exemplifies that software is a tool that can be used for good to help people out. A food pantry is great humanitarian work to help those in need and software can help make it easier for the whole process. I believe it is important to show that you care and the mission really showed true motive behind the project. Also in the aspect of the website, I personally found the design to be user friendly. I know that when I stumble upon new websites, the design is important and navigating the website was easy to do. Also the dark mode is a feature, especially for websites that is very underrated and needs to be used a lot more so that was a nice touch.

From the blog CS@Worcester – Roller Coaster Coding Journey by fbaig34 and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

One thing that I liked about the website is the content under the vision and mission subheadings on the Libre Food Pantry About page. I like and find it interesting that it both teaches and helps the community by enhancing computer science education while providing free software for local food pantries. All while showing that free open source software can be used for social good and help society. The new website is easier to use than the old one and looks better as well. The layout looks cleaner and it is easier to find things. I find the switch for changing night and day mode in the top right corner useful/enjoyable.

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As previously mentioned on this blog, I will be working with the LibreFoodPantry project to develop FOSS software for food pantries.

After reading through all the documentation and information available on the website (https://librefoodpantry.org/#/) and taking a look at the redesign of the website (https://librefoodpantry.gitlab.io/website/) for the project, something I found helpful was the linked information regarding FOSSisms (https://opensource.com/education/14/6/16-foss-principles-for-educators). Being new to working in FOSS development, it was beneficial to learn about the various principles associated with FOSS project development.

Specifically, the idea that contributors should “Ask Forgiveness, not Permission” was helpful for me. As someone who can sometimes be a perfectionist, I tend to not want to publish something if I feel it has potential to derail or cause problems with other parts of a project. I will strive to consider this idea as I make contributions.

Sources Referenced:

https://librefoodpantry.org/#/

https://librefoodpantry.gitlab.io/website/

https://opensource.com/education/14/6/16-foss-principles-for-educators

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I just wanted to make this quick post about the Agile values posted in the LibreFoodPantry about section. This sections focuses on defining the principles that will be used when developing this site. I chose this as these values might not be what people traditionally associate with software development. For example,”Individuals and interactions over processes and tools,” show that, despite this being a lot of programming, there is more to keep in mind than just clean and functional code. To be a successful software development team must be able to collaborate with your client to make working changes when necessary to ensure they receive exactly what they want.

On a bit of a side-note, the new design for the LibreFoodPantry looks great! The user interfaces is very clean and I always love the addition of a built in dark mode function.

From the blog CS@Worcester – My Bizarre Coding Adventures by Michael Mendes and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.