2010 Year in Review

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Summary

During 2010 FOSS@RIT had 13 active projects developed or contributed to, presented at 11 conferences, Hosted 6 speakers and events, organized, hosted and/or participated in 18 camps and hackathons.

Development

Sugar Games



• LemonadeStand 2.1 Release
  Interpretation of a classic with localization features.
  
• Blocku
  A Soduku-like game with multiple squares for addition and subtraction.
  
• Mathematical Adventure Fortune Hunter
  A dungeon-style game with an evil shopkeeper that will cheat the unwary.
  

Utilities



• Transbot: IRC Translator bot
  Allows conversants with two different native languages to chat to each other
  

Class Only



• IRC Sugar Activity Maintainership
  
• PacMath 2.0 release
  A variant of the classic that requires mathematical problem solving as part of the game
  
• Obama STEM Game Challenge
  

Sponsored Research



• OpenVideoChat
  Proof of concept demo showing XO's capability to produce Sign Communication Quality video chat. Recent updates to underlying technology may allow for production level version as part of 2011 class.
  
• CIVX.us
  CIVX.us beta development team completed front and back-end improvements including; style updates, NYS Senate dashboards,
  more datasets, scrapers, and information visualizations.
  

Clientwork



• Wikiotics Foundation
  Supporting development of this Open, Crowd-Sourced Language Learning Tool
  
• WXXI
  InnovationTrail.org: Local Election Results
  First ever real-time results from board of elections to the web for Monroe County
  
• RIT Government and Community Relations Website Redesign New contract. Release date 5/11
  

Side Projects



• MediaWiki Visualization
  3D visualization of revision controlled wiki edits, powered by Ubigraph
  
• Groovebot: A Grooveshark IRC bot
  IRC Bot using grooveshark API and Python to manage playlists
  

Academic and Industry Conferences

• TeachingOpenSource Summit, Seneca College, Toronto, Canada, Panel
  
• HFOSS Symposium Co-Located, ACM SIGCSE, Milwaukee, WI
  
• IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Washington, DC, Paper “RIT, One Laptop Per Child and Open Source Education; a Unique Approach to Service Education”
  
• Personal Democracy Forum, Manhattan, New York, Google Fellowship
  
• IEEE Games Innovation Conference, City University of Hong Kong, Paper “Building an Education Ecology on Serious Game Design and Development for the One Laptop Per Child and Sugar Platforms”
  
• National Technical Institute for the Deaf(NTID) Technology Symposium Rochester, NY, Paper,”Open Video Chat for OLPC/Sugar: A Free and Open Source Deaf Education Initiative”
  
• Engineer of the Future Conference, Olin College, Illinois, Student Presentation, Lightning Talks.
  
• ImagineRIT'10 Booth at Campus-wide innovation celebration
  
• RIT Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium Four Student Presentations
  
• RIT Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium Staffing, support, and web presence
  
• Social Media and Communications Symposium Panel Presentation: Open Data
  

FOSS@RIT Hosted Speakers and Events

• Professors' Open Source Summer Experience @ RIT (POSSE) Hosted. 16 participants from RIT and two other colleges
  
• FOSSCon'10 Hosted Independent Conference, Panel on POSSE
  
• Walter Bender, brought him to campus via GCCIS Deans Lecture Series support
  
• Richard Stallman, funded by Dean's office and CSI
  
• Righteous Pictures: Screening and Workshop on Documentary in the Digital Age. Funded by the CSI
  
• TeachingOpenSource.org POSSE info Luncheon
  

Camps, Hackathons & Codesprints

Hosted Locally as part of Larger Community Effort



• CrisisCampROC: Hackathon for Haiti
  
• Sunlight Foundation's Great American Hackathon
  
• DemocracyMaps DevCamp Hackathon
  

Travelled to



• CapitolCamp
  
• CapitolCamp Developer Summit
  
• BarcampBOS
  
• OVC Boston Hackathon
  
• FOSS@RIT OLPC HQ Hackathon
  

Rochester/Regional



• BarcampROC
  
• RIT48 Start-up Competition
  
• ARM Developer Day
  
• RITpedia Wikithon
  
• FOSS@RIT Homestretch Hackathon Summer
  
• Rochester Pythonistas
  
• Rochester One Laptop Per Child User Group
  
• InterlockROC & Co-working Rochester: Lightning Talks
  
• Software Freedom Day ROC '10
  

Blogs & Press

• OVC BoingBoing.net Article
  
• FOSS@RIT Opensource.com Article
  
• ROC NPR Affiliate WXXI Radio Interview Article
  
• RIT Press Release: CIVX Advisory Board
  
• RIT Press Release: Wikiotics
  
• Innovation Center Blog: Night of the Living Election