Week 13, Decemeber 10, 2010

Week 13, December 13, 2010

This past Friday was the last week of our meeting this semester. Most of Students working at RCOS contributed substantially to open source software projects. Students care so much about each other and care about FOSS efforts, they go out of their way to show their progress. Please see Projects git commits visualization (This was mainly the work of the student mentor Peter Hajas ). Thanks to Tim Horton who video taped the talks. He has placed the talks here.

We had six presentations.

1) Peter Hajas described his mobile notifier beta release (appropriately called awesome apple jacks. Peter has demoed his system and it really looked awesome. Hope other users will be able to download his Mobile notifier app and use it in their IPhones. Please see here for further details.

2) Colin Sullivan and Adam Georgiou presented their talks on their Concert Sound Organizer. They have completely reorganized their back-end using model view controller. Colin also talked about backnone.js - Their talk and other things are found here. They are using Django for their development. You should see their java commit visualization - It has been voted one among the best by his peers.

3) Joe Dougherty talked about his Fire Management Solutions. He has almost most of the system working. He has used Qt and C++ for his software development. His software has an eager customer. He also talked about his data management schema. His talk and blogs may be found here.

4) Tim and Tom presented their awesome-wav project - They have a beta release and a test for the users to test their security of wav implementations. Please see here for further details. Their software release version 1 is impressive.

5) Anthony Loven presented his supybotui - a web user interface for configuring IRC chat bot. He has done substantial implementation - He has not pushed his code yet. He plans to release his code and software during this winter break. His Blog here has his final presentation and other details.

6) John Lee (and Thomas Alexander) talked about RPI wifi for Android. They have added printer queue display in their latest implementation. Though he could not demo his system, it is easy to follow what this group has accomplished. This group even managed to incorporate my comments (to provide technical details) in their new presentation. Their talk can be found here.

What can I say more to this wonderful group of students. May be I should ask them to part the red sea and climb mount Everest and implement enhancements to linux kernel! They may do that and more. Great job guys. Mentors and I want you all to succeed and our efforts are aimed at that. Again thanks for all your efforts and continue to do good work!

Happy Holidays and promote FOSS efforts during this winter break too!