Week 3 Spring 2011 - (2/11/2011)

Week 3, Spring 2011 (2/11/2011)

I am at a low point - with getting criticism from all possible places; I am wondering how I could improve - After all this is an open source community and people should be motivated to help others and seek help if they need help.

Despite all my mental agonies, once the talks started, I was in heaven. We had five excellent presentations. Hopefully the presenters will post their slides (I am told that how would someone not in RCOS know that your blog is the only place to go to see the summary information? ) That makes my life easier!

We had talks by
1) Will Gill on Morning mail - http://morningmail.rpi.edu

Morning mail is a new news aggregation that RPI has introduced. It has JSON and RSS feeds. They have bigger plans for tagging and classification. Will gave a nice summary of their system (with out slides or computers). RCOS particpants had many interesting questions and suggestions.

2) Joe L and Zach on Touch of Mathematics http://rcos-touch-of-math.blogspot.com/

Their slides (thise awesome prizzi slides) are here (I am contradicting my own statement by giving the slides).
Joe L is working on the backend , introducing more operators (including operators from Calculus) and Zach is working on the front end - Zach plans to MathJax for rendering equations. Both Joe L and Zach have a schedule and with their expertise, we expect great things!

Touch of Math Spring 2011 on Prezi

3) John, Alex, Fran and Jonathan Universal Batch Converter
http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/unibatchconv - This group has a nifty tabbed feature for converting files. They are using CMAKE to build the system. This groups is looking for boost expertise with MACS for porting their system. They even had a demo in their first presentation! They have a sharp looking website here! They have a detailed schedule posted to the google groups. Please keep up the great work.

4) Mike OK Cage and BioRuby http://chronosgestures.posterous.com/ Mike Ok made my life easier - Had a fantastic blog post with slides in the above link. Again Mike had an awesome demo - Got a number of good suggestions from the group. I am hoping Mike will have airmath ready so that I can write equations in air! Mike is planning to finish Cage and during his break from Cage, he plans to work on bioruby! (ruby aapplications and librarries for bio informatics)

5) McMullen Brothers (Tim and Matthew) AwesomeWav http://awesome-wav.blogspot.com/

Tim is working on making a more robust and secure system. Matthew is working on the front end GUI (Matthew is a freshman and RCOS is so happy to have him with us). They had a number of interesting questions (with brilliant questions alternating from Joe D and Peter H) and a lot of suggestions.

Truly these talks uplifted my spirit!