Week 5 (10/2/2012) Fall semester 2012
RCOS Poster Presentation on Oct 5, 2012
Exams, Homework, Projects and RCOS are going in full swing for RCOS students. They have been doing an outstanding job so far. Six groups of students gave a poster presentation during Enterpreneur of the year Celebration, We had our usual presentations and discussions during our weekly meeting.
Zachary Clapper on Penguin Electronics Management System http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
Zach gave a nice presentation on Electronics Inventory Management System. Zach is working on the front end. Zach, being a JavaScript expert, rightly chose Javascript as his implementation language. There are a few other people working on this project. Please take a look at the blog written by http://penguin-electronics-inventory.blogspot.com/ Zach's presentation prompted a number of interesting suggestions and questions.
Remy Artega (Servino Center) on Open Source Business Models
Remy works with Servino Center and he is a serial enterpreneur. Remy gave an excellent presentation on the pitfalls of start up ( As he puts it, 90% of the start ups fail). Remy gave tips how to do a start up - Have a mock up, know the customer base and source of revenue. More importantly Remy suggested ways of starting open source business ventures. Many students expressed an interest.
David Vorick Blind64 http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/
David talked about Bind64. His program automates some of the tedious procedures involved with encoding using x264 (this is a video encoding program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X264 ) x.264 is a successful free and open source program but it is tedious to use. Bind64 will free up some of the tediousness of these tasks. There were interesting questions about whether a good documentation will be better than a program to simplify the tasks (I can only smile whether any one reads a documentation - one does not even read emails!)
As usual it is an enjoyable Friday late afternoon spent in the company of bright and eager minds.
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