We’ve Got a Project!
1/6/12
Today in class we were asked to choose an Open Source project that we will work on as a group this semester.
We were each assigned to research 2 projects last week and document it. It was an eye-opening experience. I especially liked the Democratic nature in which people are elected to be committers (At least on the projects I researched), and the way you have to work your way up.
I chose a FOSS music project, and an Appache Java project.
Alas, my choices were not Professor Wurst’s favorites, and did not make it onto the illustrious Whiteboard. What was, though, along with some other popular choices, was a project called Eucalyptus (http://open.eucalyptus.com/)
This is a project run by a colleague of Prof. Wurst’s.
From their website: “Eucalyptus enables the creation of on-premise private clouds”. This is the project we will ultimately run with. It seems to have great opportunities to learn more about networking, operating systems, and coding. I am looking forward to digging into this.