Week 13 (12/2/2011) Fall 2011

Week 13 (12/2/2011) Fall 2011

This is the penultimate week of the semester. We had scheduled four student talks and one guest talk. At this time of the year (with winter slowly settling in and the stress levels increasing) two students got sick and could not present.


The speakers for this are:

1) Rob Carr '11 (Canonical/Ubuntu) Working in Free/Open Source Software

2)Joe Dougherty and Tom Rozanski Network Management Systehttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifm http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/network-management-system/


3)Zachary Clapper: Touch of Math http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/touch-of-mathematics/


As stated in his abstract, Rob Carr discussed his experiences in working with Canonical/Ubuntu as a Software Engineer. Topics ranged from development models,
business models, to the day to day of working in free software. There were a lot of questions/discussions on the latest Ubuntu release (11.10) Unity. Many of RCOS have detailed questions and suggestions.

Joe talked about Tom and his work on Network Management System. They have used PHP for their implementation. Joe also gave demo of their project and pointed the glitches that current version has had.

Zach talked about his touch of math project. Zach is working on the front end (and Joe L is working at the back end - Joe L is busy with exams at Cornell). Zach has implemented subscript, superscript, reek symbols and variable substitution (and needs a lot of testing).

Again a time well spent listening to these talks.