CDOT Meeting 2012-09-13

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
    1. IRILL, Oct 11
    2. Open World Forum, Oct 12-13
    3. FUDCon EMEA, Oct 13-15
  • Copenhagen
    1. Linaro Connect, Oct 28-Nov 2
    2. Ubuntu Developers Summit, Oct 29-Nov 2

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)