Forum Topics

Clutter

Jared - stuff needs to be cleaned up, especially the server room (for when the HVAC is replaced)

HVAC updates

Jared - right now theyre trying to get quotes for the repairs (i.e. it’s just gonna happen sometime, almost without warning)

Lightning Talk

Hackathon’s

Anthony R - coordinating a group to go to hack upstate, Oct 6-7. see Anthony R if interested

A Dramatic Reading of the sudoers(5) man page, including the Extended Backus-Naur Form

Gilbert Gottfried - Yeah, this isn’t gonna happen…

Did someone say…

Some JS Evangalist - Ben gave a talk about javascript, and about his js annotation tool for visualstudio Let’s talk about javascript

Boyd-bot

Hunter - Showed off his bot he made to spit out random conspiracy theories when asked. It currently works for both IRC and discord. link to github here

COSI Place and imgtoplace

G. Bagel - Showed off place/ and his new project to add arbitrary pictures into place github link

VoIP Demo!

Jared and Graham - These two made a phone system within the lab, filled with in-jokes, hold music, connection to fsuvious, a full adventure game, and more

Dramatic Reading of the Guiding Principles

Jeanna - Read off the guiding principles for the freshmen and COSI at large

SNEKBOT

Graham - Showed off his bot for slither.io (made without machine learning, so it’s not super smart). looking to change it to make it learn

Robot Overlords https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hCVadVzyn3qEEjLWtpPEULsAMMn0JMUhrnxOKgznfLo/edit?usp=sharing

Josh Gordon - Shows off CROW, the cosi robot overlord world, a discord server for bots and bots alone. bots include boydbot, relaybot, halbot, botbot, and more to come

Kiva

Jeanna - pushed to next week

Alumni Introductions

Alumni - Cory, James, Alan, Ben, Jacob, Chris, Austin, and Josh joined via telepresence to watch talks, and tell everyone about what they are up to

Project Updates

CoT: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tPnm0CUbOj16AgpkPnuUwnXcHXW7cTXf9D4MpxL-Wrg/edit

Jared - looking to implement big data into COSI, like when the doors are open, when the lights are on, and more

Sanity Aquifer

Hunter - Shows his progress on his remake of insaine aquarium, improving the movement system

Library System

Anthony R - A vm is up and a database is up, adding and working with users is almost working

Announcements

Turtlebot Imaging (Robotics)

Hunter - We got a new turtlebot netbook and it needs to be re-imaged, if interested see Hunter

Haskell Workshops!!1!!!11!!

G. Bagel - Promoting his Haskell workshops, e-mail with whentomeet soon to be sent out

After Meeting Slot

Clone and deploy Ubuntu and Windows on the ITL. Bandwidth! Data! Fun!

Jared - see title

Books and stories

Dwight Tuinstra - a talk by the founding director of the lab and some book donations