Good Friday

Week 9: (4/2/2010)

What a beautiful Friday with a picture perfect Spring weather and an energetic
participation by all the students. It was a good Friday!

We had three marvellous talks, a lot of activities and accomplishments by
RCOS participants.

The three talks are by

1) Devin Ross

2) Joe Chrzanowski

3) Marcus Hanwell (kitware)

Please look at the dashboard to see the students' progress. I am extremely happy with the tenacity, resilience and perseverance of the students efforts in making their projects successful. More importantly they are learning, requesting for help, sharing
their code and expertise.

Devin's tapku library for IPhone has a lot of followers. He used some of this framework in his IDigg apps (for IPhone - now ranked number one in the news category).

Joe's project is going awesome. His Build your WebSite dynamically is fantastic. He even showed how to create a simple blogging system. Joe is onto something that may be extremely useful to a lot of people.

Marcus (who works at Kitware) talked about his experiences of Google Summer of Code and extolled the virtues. This website http://socghop.appspot.com/ describes Google's open source summer of code. The dead line for applying for this is April 9, 2010.

Rob Escriva and Eric Allen are mentoring Google Summer of Code Projects.

Rob Esriva's GSOC Project:

The CHASM project has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code [1] project under Kernel.org. If you're unemployed for the summer, or currently searching for a job, the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program is a great way to be paid to write open source software.

We're currently looking for one student to apply to work on CHASM for the summer. Details can be found on the Kernel.org wiki [2]. In particular we are looking for a developer who:

- Has experience working with the Git scm.
- Understands C++ programming and has a thorough knowledge of the STL.
- Has experience with Unix systems programming.
- Is comfortable writing low-level network code (e.g. using BSD sockets).
- Is ambitious and willing to bring fresh, new ideas and perspective to the
project.

If you're interested please email me soon. The deadline is April 9th at 19:00
UTC (5:00PM local time).

Thank you,
Robert Escriva
Primary Mentor, CHASM, GSoC 2010

1. http://code.google.com/soc/
2. https://korg.wiki.kernel.org/


Eric Allen is mentoring Google Summer of Code Project. The details may be found here:

To recap, Selenium is a framework for automated testing of web applications. You write tests in your language of choice, and they can run against practically every popular browser out there. In addition, Selenium IDE lets you easily record tests in the browser with a simple, intuitive interface. If you're building web applications, you might want to think about joining the ~2 million others who use Selenium to test their software, including a lot of big names like Google. Just being able to say you know how to work with Selenium can be a major boost when looking for a job.

The Selenium project has been accepted into GSoC 2010, but we need students to make this happen! We've developed a preliminary list of potential projects, but if you've got a better idea, we'd love to hear it. Our mentors are all really top-notch, and trust me, you'll get a lot of attention from them (Grace will make sure of that). It's a mature project, but we're going through a major transition here with Selenium 2.0. You get the best of both worlds: green pastures and experienced mentors.

Now, here's what we need from you: participation! If you're even the least
bit curious, let me know and we can talk details. Thanks!