Week 7 (10/16/2012) Fall 2012
We are in the midway point of the semester. RCOS projects are going well and the students are spending time with courses and projects. This week we had two talks. We are glad to have a past RCOS student to come and give a talk.
1. Jorel Lalici is working on CORSAIR According to Jorel "the software I am working on is instead focusing on facilitating freedom of speech in an academic setting. The intended use would be to share notes and materials for courses, as well as host an open discussion forum. CORSAIR has no public facing page, or server. The authentication server has no indication of what is on the server, and is only contacted as needed (if no nodes can be automatically discovered). As it is entirely p2p, it does not directly facilitate sharing of anything to the public. As CORSAIR actually significantly limits the scope of FreeNet (removing a lot of features and restricting the network to subnets), while merely adding a more user friendly interface tailored to use for academic materials, it actually removes much of the ability for CORSAIR to be misused." - Knowing Jorel I am hopeful that CORSAIR will be useful not only to RPI community but to the whole free world. There were many interesting questions and discussions to Jorel's talk.
BTW Jorel has a kickstarter campaign for his Piled Project. Here is the URL http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2113011562/programmable-intelligent-led-development-system-pi?ref=card
2. John Britton who is working as a GitHub liaison with educational institutions gave a whirl wind tour of GitHub. As usual his presentation was lucid and crisp. The students being intimately familiar with GitHub were able to understand every word of it. Further many interesting questions were asked.
We had an overflow of students listening to the talks in AE 216.
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