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Update from Christine
- Rebecca Isowa will be working with CDOT on financial tracking
- MPPs will be visiting Markham campus on Oct 10 – Rasberry Pi project will be represented
NexJ Connected Wellness - Jordan Anastasiade
- Project is focused on interfacing medical devices to mobile phones (via bluetooth) to a server (via mobile IP) – Initial devices are glucometer and blood pressure monitor
- Not using PhoneGap (Q from DH)
- Pursuing I2I funding (DM)
Mozilla / Popcorn Update - David Humphrey
- Spent the week with Mozilla Foundation, which has grown significantly (from 1 person to ~60) and which advocates for the Open Web. Students were invited and participated.
- Foundation has interest in and focus on Popcorn, badges. Demonstrated Popcorn Maker – well received and good feedback.
- A lot of planning for the Popcorn/Popcorn Maker event coming up in London
- TEDglobal is featuring a talk by the Foundation CTO and wants a click-though way for people to access Popcorn Maker (this is about 3 weeks before the 1.0 release)
- October 19 is TEDglobal feature; November 7 is the official 1.0 release
3D Content Creation System / Cathy Leung
- Working on final features
- Alpha release on October 1
- Good initial feedback from testers
- Will utilize Emily Koon's skills for Graphics (etc)
OSTEP / Chris Tyler
- TRAC system being set up for wiki/vcs/tickets/milestones/roadmap – projects can be added in seconds, access control is very granular. This will be ready for testing next week.
- An LDAP (user authentication) server is being set up for use with TRAC. This server can also be used as a login credential server for CDOT systems (Windows/Linux/Mac)
- We've outgrown our backup solutions, will be talking to ITS about a backup server on another campus
- Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix 17 is soon to be released, armv6hl (optimized) build project is starting with a target of an alpha release at FSOSS and a final release when Fedora 18 ships (Nov/Dec)
- Chris will be traveling in October:
- Paris
- IRILL, Oct 11
- Open World Forum, Oct 12-13
- FUDCon EMEA, Oct 13-15
- Copenhagen
- Linaro Connect, Oct 28-Nov 2
- Ubuntu Developers Summit, Oct 29-Nov 2
- Paris
Summer Project Presentations
- Late Thursday afternoon (Oct 20), Lower-K @ 4:00-5:15 pm
- Invitees include:
- President
- VP Academic
- VP Research
- Dean of FASET
- Faculty and students (invitation up on Monday)
- Purpose is to move understanding of CDOT from 'a name' to having an understanding of the types of applied research performed here
- Announcements/invite reminders will go out tomorrow (DM)
Need @CDOT Twitterer
- Suggest the 1-year intern RAs (Jon & Chris) (CT)