We have the official beginning of Fall RCOS projects - students have selected their projects and they have already started working on it - by looking at the observatory and green smileys! (I have to be honest and I am distressed that a few groups have not entered their projects and many entered projects are still red - I do hope that that things will change for the better - an eternal optimist I am!)
This week we had three talks.
1) Ben Shippee on Observatory http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/observatory/
2) John Luther (google) on WebM http://www.webmproject.org/
3) Christian Johnson, Dan Kimball and Michael Horowitz o Directory App http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rpi-directory-app/
Ben gave an introduction to Observatory and some of its features. Already many have placed their projects. Hope others will follow their footsteps.
John gave an overview of the features of webM (from WebM's webpage:
"WebM is an open, royalty-free, media file format designed for the web. WebM defines the file container structure, video and audio formats. WebM files consist of video streams compressed with the VP8 video codec and audio streams compressed with the Vorbis audio codec.") and many open source projects available with WebM. His talk was well received and many interesting questions followed. To top it off, John gave free T-Shirts to all students.
Christian, Dan and Mike (in spirit) gave an interesting talk on Directory project. They use Google apps, python and django. They also have a nice caching in the backend. They had built a prototype and they showed an excellent demo. A lot of questions and suggestions followed. They are on a fast track (and already number one on the dashboard).
A chilly Friday was warmed up by great talks.
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