Week 9 (10/30/2012) Fall 2012

Week 9 (10/30/2012) Fall  2012

The semester has been progressing along. There was a nice write up last week's open source festival in Poly newspaper  This week we had four talks.


1)  Christian Johnson, Dan Kimball and Mike Horowitz RPIDirectory http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rpi-directory-app/

2) Colin Kuebler  Koala http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/koala/

3) Stephen Silber, James McMillan and Colin Steiffel   RPI Mobile http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/rpi-mobile/

4) Mike Agnew ReserveMe  http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/reserveme/

Christian, Dan and Mike started of their recent updates in rpidirectory. These include suggestions for searches, new API, realtime pie chart and personalization. Please check out http://rpidirectory.appspot.com/ and see how cool it is. Mike has ported to Android with a new UI. Dan has done good backend improvements and Christian has taken care of teh whole project.

Colin presented his slides inside Koala - Colin has been making a lot of progress with a front end. He plans to rewrite his parser so that it is faster and flexible.

Stephen, James and Colin are progressing along RPIMobile. They are planning to release a version before the Spring Semester. Stephen has incorporated the Laundry Status. Stephen has registered RPI Mobile for TestFlight, a free Over-The-Air platform used to distribute beta and internal iOS applications to team members. James is using a server and scraped the athletic data - He is also planning to scrape the menu data and laundry status. Colin is working on making it portable to Android.

Mike talked about ReserveMe a project in reserving city parks and other information available to the community. This is a project is done in conjunction with the city of Schenectady. Mike has made progress with the user interface  http://agnewm.myrpi.org/reserveme/ - He has planned to use innodb and mysql for the backend. 

All in all it was a great afternoon and listened to great talks. Hope others will come forward by themselves (with out me twisting their arms or pulling their teeth :) ) to give talks!