RCOS is picking up momentum - The peer group is very active
The students are submitting to group mailing list for getting feedback of the people. Viva la "Vox Populi" ! Still there are a lot of small things that need to be ironed out. As a first step, I will be holding office hours for new students/new projects on Sundays from 2 to 5:00 pm in Lally 102 (our new shared workspace)
Our mentors are hard at work: Tim is taping the videos and posting to youtube. Colin is quietly helping everyone. Peter is so enthusiastic it is almost impossible for the RCOS students not to be enthusiastic about the work. Joe is our Systems man. He does all the hardware, router stuff run smoothly. Nate is our observatory guru. Dave does so many things so fast - he is our expert feedback guru. Rob is helping out from Ithaca. Thanks to all of you guys. You make my life/work so much pleasurable!!!
This week we had talks by
1) Cihan Caglayan
2) Joe Dougherty and Tom Rozanski
3) Peter Hajas
4) Matt Arsenault
5) Tim Horton
Cihan is working on a HFOSS project on Fairtrade PeopleLink Scheme. Cihan is extending an open source project. Her talk slides may be found here.
First Presentation - RCOS PEOPLink Project
View more presentations from cihancaglayan.
Tim Horton has posted a youtube link and the talk is here
2) Joe is continuing his work on Fire Department Management systems with Tom. Joe has made a detailed schedule for his project. There were some lively discussions after his talk.
Tim Horton's youtube link and the actual video is here.
3) Peter gave a lively presentation of Mobile Notifier and Widge. Peter has collobarators working with him. Peter's talk also generated a lot of discussions.
Tim Horton's Youtube link
4) Matt is continuing his project on Milkyway. Matt gave a detailed description of the compiler issues with ATI and his proposed solutions. Matt is also pallning to contribute to BOINC.
Tim Horton's youtube link and the talk is here
5) Tim gave a delightful presentation of Notebook (a mathematica style user interface for python/ruby/javascript) back ends. His system is written for Apple computer. Tim has already released the Notebook version 0.001
Tim Horton's youtube link and his talk is here.
All in all we had delightful talks and lively discussions. I learned a lot by attending these talks.
Please keep up the good work!!!!
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