Week 5: (6/25/2010)
We are in the fifth week of summer and all the students are done with making their first set of presentations. During this first set of presentations, all the students have outlined their problems, motivation, importance, clients and time lines of their projects.
We had talks by
1) Ryan Baltazar
2) Matthew O'Brien
3) Jacob Katz
4) Anthony Loven and Brittany Jason
5) Joseph Dougherty
Ryan and Ben are working to get a OSM Tile Server On The Road - Not only they are getting one, they are also documenting their efforts. Many of the pieces of OSM (Open Street Map) tile server are not documented - so Ryan and Ben are doing their best to get the software running.
Matthew's talk on Project Community Connected generated a lot of discussions - The questions ranged from how his system is different from the existing open source, security, IP filtering (about who can psot in the community) etc. Matt defended all the questions reasonably well. Matt has a time line and a prototype implementation almost ready. Matt will add additional features such as RSS feeds, mash up with maps once he gets his website running. Matt usses PHP, HTML 5, CSS, JQuery and Javascript.
Jacob is working on OpenGambit an education program to teach chess to young children(for windows XP (32 bit) architecture). Jacob had written as much code as he has deleted . He is writing his system in C++ and will have a GUI to go along with his back-end. Jacob has also written substantial code (he even demonstrated a command line version!) and a time line for his project.
Anthony and Jason are developing a calendar like system (agenda management system) for Androids. They have placed their first talk online already! They have a lot of cool features - Hope they get to work on things that distinguish their applications from the rest. They have a time line too.
Finally Joe D is working on a fire Department Management system to help with Fire Departments. Joe's earlier version software have been used by his town's fire department - That was written in Visual Basic. His current system uses C++, Qt (for GUI) and SQL-lite for Database . Joe D is confident that he will be able to finish most of the implementation by the end of July.
Now we are on to the next round of talks - Looking forward to hearing great(er) things!
Friday, June 25, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
Week 4: Student Presentations
Week 4: (6/18/2010)
We are continuing with the (first) presentations by students. This week, we had less number of students attending the meeting this week (Hope this is a minor anomaly!)
We had talks by
1) Jason Zallinger
2) Sean Austin, Diana Mazzola and Griffin Milsap
3) Ben Shippee
4) Stephen Trombelli and James McMillan
5) Ryan Dignard
Jason talked about his research agenda to get a narrative story from gmail archives. The preliminary implementations are done and Jason is in the process of collecting data and writing research paper.
Sean, Diana and Griffin are continuing their work android visualization with open GL. They have a schedule to include Shaders and demo to show the power of their open source visualization for android.
Ben talked about his open Math game - a game developed for educational purposes - Ben and Ryan have started their core implementation (at least text based) and are on track for doing a release of their game toward beginning of August.
Stephen and James are working on HFOSS project on Sahana. They are working from a large code base - and they are in touch with the developer from across the world. They are developing some features for the python version of Sahana (Sahana Eden) - They have picked up momentum.
Ryan is working on Donor Data Base in PHP. He has a schedule for the rest of the summer.
Please check out our dashboard and blog aggregates for details.
I am hoping most of these projects will be successful making every one happy.
We are continuing with the (first) presentations by students. This week, we had less number of students attending the meeting this week (Hope this is a minor anomaly!)
We had talks by
1) Jason Zallinger
2) Sean Austin, Diana Mazzola and Griffin Milsap
3) Ben Shippee
4) Stephen Trombelli and James McMillan
5) Ryan Dignard
Jason talked about his research agenda to get a narrative story from gmail archives. The preliminary implementations are done and Jason is in the process of collecting data and writing research paper.
Sean, Diana and Griffin are continuing their work android visualization with open GL. They have a schedule to include Shaders and demo to show the power of their open source visualization for android.
Ben talked about his open Math game - a game developed for educational purposes - Ben and Ryan have started their core implementation (at least text based) and are on track for doing a release of their game toward beginning of August.
Stephen and James are working on HFOSS project on Sahana. They are working from a large code base - and they are in touch with the developer from across the world. They are developing some features for the python version of Sahana (Sahana Eden) - They have picked up momentum.
Ryan is working on Donor Data Base in PHP. He has a schedule for the rest of the summer.
Please check out our dashboard and blog aggregates for details.
I am hoping most of these projects will be successful making every one happy.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Week 3 - Going Strong!
Week 3: (6/11/2010)
Thanks to Ryan B, a group photo was taken last Friday (6/11). From the smiling faces you can see that the students are enjoying their work.
First presentations are going in full swing.
This week the presenters were
1) Nate Stedman
2) Glaylin Kim
3) Michael O'Keefe
4) Nicholas Steele
5) Rob Carr
Their presentations seemed more like update talks rather than their first talks. Naturally all of them have been working on their RCOS projects since last year (Nicholas inherited the Votebox project from Joe D).
Nate and Rob are doing two different presentation software fro Gnome. Both of them are quite nice. Nate has a neat demo working. Rob's software has been featured LWN site.
Graylin has been making a very nice progress with open legislation software. His plan if providing a library is excellent and he has made very good progress with it.
Michael has provided a nice time line for "watch" software project. Michael has again made a good initial breakthrough.
Nicholas has been making progress with Qt for GUI for the Votebox project. He has also time line for his project.
All in all the students are making great progress You should check our dashboard to get greater details- Hoping to see great talks next week too.
Thanks to Ryan B, a group photo was taken last Friday (6/11). From the smiling faces you can see that the students are enjoying their work.
First presentations are going in full swing.
This week the presenters were
1) Nate Stedman
2) Glaylin Kim
3) Michael O'Keefe
4) Nicholas Steele
5) Rob Carr
Their presentations seemed more like update talks rather than their first talks. Naturally all of them have been working on their RCOS projects since last year (Nicholas inherited the Votebox project from Joe D).
Nate and Rob are doing two different presentation software fro Gnome. Both of them are quite nice. Nate has a neat demo working. Rob's software has been featured LWN site.
Graylin has been making a very nice progress with open legislation software. His plan if providing a library is excellent and he has made very good progress with it.
Michael has provided a nice time line for "watch" software project. Michael has again made a good initial breakthrough.
Nicholas has been making progress with Qt for GUI for the Votebox project. He has also time line for his project.
All in all the students are making great progress You should check our dashboard to get greater details- Hoping to see great talks next week too.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Week 2 - First Presentations Begin
Week 2: (6/4/2010)
We are glad to report that RCOS has become a charter member of HFOSS Please check our RPI's HFOSS site http://hfoss.rpi.edu and this site has been linked to the chapters link. We are starting in a small fashion (Steve and James are working on HFOSS project - James just finished his freshmen year in 2010 and Steve transferred to CS in 2010) and hopefully grow bigger as years roll by and funds start to come in. If you want to get involved in this activity please let me know. Also RyanB and Ben (both just finished their freshmen years at RPI in 2010) are working with Junpstart international on a mapping server project. We are fortunate to have young and vibrant minds interested in Open Source Software.
This week we had two talks by
1) Brian Michalski
2) Luke Perkins
Nate is working on FlagshipGeo - extending his expertise on the development of Flagship - a document tool used in RPI students' union. Brain and his web tech group had developed Flagship to make the students' government transparent. Brain gave a talk last Spring. He is planning to add open source GIS information to this tool. This project looks very interesting. You should look at his blog http://geo.brispace.net/ He plans to use Ruby on Rails 3, HTML 5 . At least his libraries will be useful to a number of people. Brian has presented a nice plan of action for this summer to carry out his project.
Luke is diligently working on providing Broodwar API for Starcraft games. His interest is n Artificial intelligence, terrain maps, and machine learning. He has picked a nice application to contribute. Luke has been well known in this application. His contribution has already been downloaded and used by a number of people. At least one RCOS group showed an interest in using his software for their project. He has already blogged about his first presentation here. Luke has outline what he is going to work during this summer. I am looking forward to his great contribution.
We are glad to report that RCOS has become a charter member of HFOSS Please check our RPI's HFOSS site http://hfoss.rpi.edu and this site has been linked to the chapters link. We are starting in a small fashion (Steve and James are working on HFOSS project - James just finished his freshmen year in 2010 and Steve transferred to CS in 2010) and hopefully grow bigger as years roll by and funds start to come in. If you want to get involved in this activity please let me know. Also RyanB and Ben (both just finished their freshmen years at RPI in 2010) are working with Junpstart international on a mapping server project. We are fortunate to have young and vibrant minds interested in Open Source Software.
This week we had two talks by
1) Brian Michalski
2) Luke Perkins
Nate is working on FlagshipGeo - extending his expertise on the development of Flagship - a document tool used in RPI students' union. Brain and his web tech group had developed Flagship to make the students' government transparent. Brain gave a talk last Spring. He is planning to add open source GIS information to this tool. This project looks very interesting. You should look at his blog http://geo.brispace.net/ He plans to use Ruby on Rails 3, HTML 5 . At least his libraries will be useful to a number of people. Brian has presented a nice plan of action for this summer to carry out his project.
Luke is diligently working on providing Broodwar API for Starcraft games. His interest is n Artificial intelligence, terrain maps, and machine learning. He has picked a nice application to contribute. Luke has been well known in this application. His contribution has already been downloaded and used by a number of people. At least one RCOS group showed an interest in using his software for their project. He has already blogged about his first presentation here. Luke has outline what he is going to work during this summer. I am looking forward to his great contribution.
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