Forum

Ziltoid

Rust discussed his plan on creating Ziltoid and plans on fully beginning work on the server this Friday.

IBM LinuxONE Mainframe

Kiki said that IBM is interested in giving the labs COSI access to their IBM LinuxONE mainframe.

COSI Gaming Ban

The labs plan to lift the ban on video games in the labs on Sept. 9th, but keep a rule of no gaming during work hours (Mon-Fri, 9-5).

Lightning Talks

What is COSI

Rust talked about what COSI’s mission and existence is about. Things we do can also be found on the Docs.

COSI Subreddit

COSI has a subreddit and things will often be posted on there during the semester for updates.

How to Contribute to OSS

Benjamin talked of how contributing to open source software is very simple and more information can be found here.

Editors Talk

Kiki talked about many text editors that can be used. (including Emacs, Vi(m), nano, etc.)

Codecademy Command Line Course

Mike discussed a quick few hour course on working in the command line which can be found here.

ADUni Site

Baha showed off a site that has free educational resources found on the ArsDigita University.

Project Updates / Announcements

List of Project Ideas

As with last week, we have a list of projects on the docs and talk to Benjamin if you want an account on Docs to create new ideas or help out with Docs.

Elephant Update

Elephant is the lab’s backup server and is all set up. This upcoming week, Baha is going to start backing up data from our servers onto Elephant.

Research with Big Data

Supraja is a Grad student working on Big Data specifically from Twitter. If anyone’s interested, talk to her.

NANOG

Prof. Liu reiterated on a conference on network operations he is interested in sending students to in October. Talk to him if you’re interested.

After Meeting Slot

• Bobby and Mike started their first workshop of a series on Android App Development