Week 10 - Final Presentations Begin

Week 10: (7/30/2010)

We have exciting three weeks coming now (starting this week) where the students (and their groups) present their finished (or almost finished) work. Distinct from our regular meetings, this Friday, Steve and James presented their Sahana Eden work (for HFOSS http://hfoss.org ) at Wesleyan University (through dimdim a web presentation tool). They have done a very nice administrator's utility for installing Sahana Eden (Python version of Sahana - http://sahanafoundation.org/ ) James and Steve also also listened to the other presentations and increased their awareness of HFOSS work (and contributing to that work). This was a nice co-ordinated effort by RPI, Wesleyan, Oregon State, Connecticut College, Mount Holyoke, Bergen Community College and Trinity College. Please see this link for details of the various sessions.

Our regular Friday meeting consisted of the following three groups:

1) Luke Perkins
2) Brian Michalski
3) nate Steadman and Rob Carr

Luke has completed what he has promised to deliver - BWAPI (Broodwar API for AI gaming community). He has released his latest version. It had 30 odd downloads in three days and his software is used by 1000's of people. If you do not believe me, please look at this site. One has to look at this forum to see his programs impact!

Brian has done a substantial work for his Flagship Geo project. More importantly he has built a framework that could be used for many different applications besides Flagship. His (future) applications include RPI Shuttle Tracking (with dynamic route specification), Troy Crime reporting and tracking (by the community) and concerto. Brain's demo illustrates his program's capabilities nicely.

Nate and Rob have combined their talents and efforts to make the presentation software (for Gnome) to be Ease. Nate gave a demonstration of Ease's presentation. The capabilities are awesome. Move over Open Office and Avatar. Ease could be 3 D presentation software. The entire software is written in Vala with a number of libraries- Nate has also assume the role of mentorship for a GSOC student. Nate is planning to release Ease version 0.2 or 0.3 soon. Rob's exprtise with Seed is further helping this project.

Please look at our dashboard for further details.

A fantastic start to the final presentations.