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