Rensselaer Center For Open Source

Professor Wes Turner was interviewed on This Week in Tech's podcast, FLOSS Weekly
https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/590?autostart=false&jwsource=cl

RCOS Current group of students involved in eveloping Open Source Software at RCOS (Rensselaer Center for Open Source of Software). Yet another great group of open source software developers!!!

FLOSS Weekly is an excellent podcast on Open Source and technology. They are also very nice people. If you are interested in Open Source and particularly how it works at RPI, please take a look at their latest podcast where they give me a chance to speak a little bit about the program at RPI.

https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/590

FLOSS Weekly 590 Rensselaer Center for Open Software | TWiT.TV RCOS is a group of RPI students who work on open-source projects. The goal of RCOS is to empower students to develop open-source solutions to real-world problems. They have created…

Dr. Wesley Turner , RCOS Director, wins the School of Science outstanding teaching award during 2020 commencement ceremonies. [The Outstanding Teaching Award recognizes a faculty or staff member for excellence in classroom instruction and other educational activities during the past three-year period.]

Our own Frank Matranga wins a GitHub Award
From Frank Matranga: "GitHub posted an interview of me about LATE since I told them I used GitHub Education Student Pack tools and because I'm a GitHub Campus Expert!"

https://github.blog/2020-03-19-getting-to-know-the-newyearnewpack-winners/

Way to go Frank!

Getting to know the #NewYearNewPack winners winner Frank Matranga shares how the Pack helped him bring his open-source student planner to life.

Ronna Min went to the hackathon at Yale University (YHack) and their group got a runner up award for one of the sponsor prizes!
Here's the Devpost for their project: https://devpost.com/software/lotus-ai
They created a site that would use web crawling to gather data on a company, and then analyze that data with natural language processing to gauge customer, social media, and news sentiment about that company. Congratulations to Ronna Min

Profs. Turner, Goldschmidt and krishnamoorthy wrote a chapter for a new Open Source book being released today by Red-Hat.. They discuss the Rensselaer Center for Open Source (RCOS) and how they bring open source to 200 students per semester in their chapter!

The Open Organization Guide for Educators Organizations everywhere are becoming more open—and more innovative, agile, and engaged as a result. But can we say the same of our educational organizations?

Welcome to Fall Semester 2019. RCOS first meeting will be in DCC 318 from 4-6 pm on Friday 8/30. Hoping to see many of you.

Photo of RCOS alumni Christopher Iliffe Sprague '17 (Aeronautical Enginnering) has appeared in NY Times based on his research at KTH https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/science/shipwreck-archeology-shipwreck.html - His RCOS project can be found here https://cisprague.github.io/Astro.IQ/

A Shipwreck, 500 Years Old, Appears on the Baltic Seabed Its condition is pristine, but its identity is a mystery. For now, maritime archaeologists call it Okänt Skepp, Swedish for “unknown ship.”

Here are our mentors and our graduating seniors! It was a wonderful year.

Blain Smith talks to us about Kinetic and his experience using Go!