MP *51

COSI For Credit

Variable Credit

Jeanna Matthews

Fall 2006


Instructor

Jeanna Matthews
Office: Science Center 389
Phone: 268-6288
E-mail: jnm@clarkson.edu
Homepage: http://www.clarkson.edu/~jnm

Meeting Times

Regular COSI meetings will be every other Weds 8-9 PM in the COSI lab. There will also be workdays and other meetings as announced.

Resources

Main COSI page

Other Semesters

Expectations

MP*51 is a set of multidisciplinary project courses that have been set up to award course credit for participation in COSI and for open source projects in general. MP151 is for freshman, MP251 for sophomores, MP351 is for juniors, MP451 is for seniors and MP551 is for graduate students. It is available to enroll in each of these courses for between 0 and 3 credits.

When you enroll in an MP*51 course, the number of credit hours you register for determines the expectations. There are also some activities that are required of all students enrolled in an MP*51 course even those taking MP*51 for zero credits. The following table describes these expectations. Exceptions can be made to adjust requirements on a case by case basis (e.g. taking 2 credits but not following an existing open source group because you are contributing heavily to an open source project), but that requires prior discussion and arrangement.

Everyone including zero credit students are responsbile for attending regular COSI meetings, submitting a web page at midterm time and at the end of the semester and contributing to COSI-wide projects as specified by the student directors and faculty advisor of COSI.

Credits Description Requirements
0 Attend Attend regular COSI meetings
5 hours contribution to overall COSI projects including open houses, lab maintenance
Web page summarizing experiences/contributions at midterm time and updated for end of semester
1 Learn, Summarize and Report All requirements for 0 credits.
Additional 5 hours contribution (10 total) to overall COSI projects including open houses. lab maintenace
Choose an open source project to follow and report/summarize (OSDL working groups, kernel mailing list, etc.) or learn the internals of an open source application and report, etc.
Regular every other week reports(written and oral) (report news of interest to others, ideas for projects, summary of activity, etc.)
2 Produce All requirements for 1 credits.
Additional 5 hours contribution (15 total) to overall COSI projects including open houses. lab maintenace
Produce specific improvements to COSI and the open source community (write code for an open source project, take a leadership role in managing/maintaining the COSI lab, write documentation for open source code)
3 Outreach All requirements for 2 credits.
Additional 5 hours contribution (20 total) to overall COSI projects including open houses. lab maintenace
Run a workshop or lab session in which you share your expertise with others

Meeting Topics

Date Summary
8/30/2006 Activities Fair
9/6/2006 First meeting of the year; Discussed new lab setup and project ideas; Wenjin Hu and Leslie Cherian talk about their summers in China and India
9/13/2006 Rouslan Solomakhin's presentation on Java graphics
9/21/2006 Career Fair; Visits from Eli Dow, Mike Chauvoustie, Greg Lacey, Ashwin Venkatraman, Emily Blum, Irana Sheykh-zade, Donald Streicher
10/7/2006 Fall Open House 1
10/11/2006 Todd Deshane and Jeremy Bongio present on Xen using Sean Dague's slides
10/18/2006 Rouslan Solomakhin's GPG presentation
10/21/2006 Alumni Weekend
10/25/2006 Jeff Ward's presentation on latex
11/1/2006 Jacob Torrey's presentation on TOR
11/4/2006 Xen workshop (Todd Deshane, Pat Wilbur, JeDremy Bongio)
11/8/2006 Zach Shepherd's PHP presentation
11/11/2006 Fall Open House 2
11/15/2006 Chris Peterman's presentation on Ruby
11/29/2006 Michael Mueter's Honeypot presentation
12/6/2006 Last meeting of the semester

Students

Name Course Hours
Jeremy Bongio 451 0
Chris Peterman 351 1
Jonathan Potter 351 0
Rouslan Solomakhin 351 3
Jeff Ward 351 1
Patrick Wilbur 351 3
Ryan Lewis 251 2
Tabor Powelson 251 0
Steven Terrill 251 1
Jacob Torrey 151 3
Zachary Shepherd 151 3