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.