Week 11 - More Cool Presentations

Week 11: (8/6/2010)

Time flies when you are working with a fine group of young and energetic student with creative ideas. The summer is almost over (next week will be our last week).

We had presentations by


1) Nicholas Steele
2) Stephen Trombelli and James McMillan
3) Ryan Dignard
4) Ryan Baltazar and Ben Shippe
5) Michael O'Keefe,

Nick had made very good progress with his vote box project. He completed his ballot (with Qt) and most of the back end and GUI software. He plans to build a hardware prototype for his project next and hopefully our next RPI union election may utilize his hardware and software.

Steve and James talked about their Sahana-Eden project (part of HFOSS project). They have completed the system installation software. They are getting feedback from system administrators and incorporating their suggestions in their system. Next step is to get more testing and launching their with the next release.

Ryan D has almost completed his donor database system. He has added anonymous contribution in his system (thanks to the suggestion of fellow RCOS students during his previous presentation). He needs to do more testing. He is also trying to see whether his software could be done under the WAX PHP framework of Joe Ch (done last year as a RCOS project).

Ryan B and Ben has almost completed their installation of map server The time consuming portion of their sever is the tile generation of maps. They showed a quick demo of their server. they are documenting the installation instruction, creating a wiki etc. They hope to finish this before the end of this summer.

Mike gave a very cool presentation of this gesture creation/recognition software with his watch. His software runs on apple hardware and Mike is trying to make it work under other operating systems. Mike is also planning to release a library package for his gesture recognition/creation software.

All in all, the talks and the projects are very interesting. I do hope that others at RPI and elsewhere notice our efforts in making this world a better place.