From Teaching Open Source

Stephen Jacobs here, Game Prof and Director of the Lab for Technological Literacy which houses, FOSS@RIT, lists the various FOSS projects I or my students and colleagues are involved in. They include...

• a course Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Development that emerged from the three Seminars in Developing Software for the OLPC we ran here at RIT.
• Open Video Chat (sugar, alpha) and Open Access Video Chat (other Linux, Mac, Windows, on the drawing board)
• civx.us. Created by Luke Macken and Remy Decausemaker, now "living" in the LTL
• Game and Animation engines to improve Python and Pygames performance as game development tools

and more :-)

Background...

Born and raised in Washington D.C.

Post-Grad work: Computer Animation, RIT MA in Media Studies: New School for Social Research BA in Liberal Arts: New School for Social Research

Currently a visiting scholar with the International Center for the History of Electronic Games

Aside from the academic titles listed above, my resume includes stints as...

Museum Exhibit Designer A Bench Tech for Crazy Eddie's Grenwich store Sign Language Interpreter for Deaf Street Gangs and Paramount Pictures Educational Filmmaker Technology Journalist

Have served on the executive committees of the IGDA's Game Education and Game Writing SIGs, the Sandbox Symposium at SIGGRAPH for 3 years, the social game committee for SIGGRAPH in 2009 and a Girl Scout "Game sfor Life" workshop in 2010. Editor-in-Chief for the upcoming journal on Computer Game Education.