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Overview Booklet


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Overview Booklet May 2009

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About ROSEdu

ROSEdu is a community that brings together

people with passion for programming, open-

source software and IT.

At this point most ROSEdu members are

students at the Automatic Control and

Computers Faculty, University Politehnica of

Bucharest. New members are welcome

regardless of their background.

Our belief is that everyone should benefit

from our projects and activities. This is why

everything we create uses an FOSS licensing

system. The copyright nevertheless belongs to

the people taking part at various ROSEdu

projects.

Although many of our projects are related to

university educational environment, other

kinds of projects may be created depending on

the preferences and needs of ROSEdu

members.

For any information regarding ROSEdu pleaseuse the Contact form at the end of this

booklet.


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Team

ROSEdu consists of volunteers and enthusiasts

passionate about free/open-source software,

open technologies and communities.

Started as a community project in the spring

of 2007, ROSEdu is currently working on

becoming a fully-fledged non-profit

organization.

Most ROSEdu members are students at the

Automatic Control and Computers Faculty. At

this point there is no formal status defined,

such that a ROSEdu member is a person with

constant involvement in community activities.

Members of ROSEdu include (but are not

limited to): Alex Eftimie, Andrei Buhaiu, Vlad

Dogaru, Sergiu Iordache, Mihai Maruseac,

Andrei Soare, Lucian Grijincu, Mihai

Dumitrache, Razvan Deaconescu, Lucian

Cojocar, Andrada Georgescu, Alex Juncu, Vali

Priescu.

ROSEdu members value passion abouttechnology and communities, diversity,

knowledge sharing, on-topic and off-topic

discussions. We enjoy being part of activities

that are both fun and useful.


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ROSEdu coordinates two types of activies:

open-source development projects community development

Most of the projects are focused on easing the

transition to an open-source environment

(operating system, basic applications, GUI,

development tools).

We are trying to blend as much as possible the

fun/passion/enthusiasm factor with the

usefulness project. The development projects

are aimed at solving a particular problem or

optimizing certain aspects of day to day

activities.

Most of our activities take part under the

umbrella of the CS Department. Some projects

(WoUSO, CSpay, vmchecker) have been

integrated in educational or administration

activities of the department.

We are always open to new ideas and valueinitiative and involvement. An interesting

project or activity is welcome as a ROSEdu

project even if it's not coming from a ROSEdu

member.

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ROSEdu Summer of Code is a project whose

aim is to give students an alternative summer

internship program. Students and enthusiastscan be a part of existing or new ROSEdu

projects.

We aim to help the participants become better

programmers and familiarize themselves with

the FOSS development environment and

working in a community.

As it name shows, the development

environment took its inspiration from Google

Summer of Code. Students may apply to one

of the projects presented on the site.

Development occurs during the summer

holiday but further collaboration is welcome.

This summer (2009) we will continue the

tradition and host RSoCv2. Many of RSoCv1s

projects year will be included.

Hosted at RSoCv1:

Hammerfall general purpose graphics

engine written in Python

VMChecker automated tool for

homework evaluation

WoUSO educational game for 1st year

students

CSpay administration tool for automating

the creation of salary documents

Tigus bar code test generator

ROSEdu summer of codeUbuntu Install Fest

One of the first community events that

ROSEdu organized was Ubuntu Install Fest. We

have coordinated two Ubuntu Install Fests

following the same recipe used by other

Ubuntu Communities.

The main target group were freshmen and

people new to Ubuntu and open-source

technologies, but the initiative was open to

everyone.

Although Ubuntu was the primary distribution

used for installation and configuration, weprovided support for other distributions as

well.

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CSPay, one of the first projects developed at

ROSEdu, is an administration tool used for

automating the creation of salary documentsin University Politehnica of Bucharest.

Its main software components were two

underlying libraries and a set of user interfaces

(CLI and WebUI).

CSPay was developed using C, PHP, Python,

and shell scripts. This was our first occasion to

learn how to use revision control systems and

mailing lists and how to work as a community.

The project was part of ROSEdu Summer of

Code during which it was restructured and

improved. CSPay is used by university staff at

the Automatic Control and Computers Faculty.

CSPayCDL

The Open Source Development Course is an 8

week event consisting of various activities

(courses, hackathons, application based

workshops) for students at the University

Politehnica of Bucharest. It focuses on useful

open source development tools and working

in an open source community.

At its first year, the course was attended by 16

students (around 80 students applied). It was

divided in two components:

a course during which theoretical

knowledge about working on a project is

presented

a workshop where students learn practical

skills of using open-source tools

The course aims at preparing students for their

first experience with free/open-source

applications and communities.

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WoUSO (World of USO) is an educational

game targeting students of the Operating

System Usage (OSU) course of the AutomaticControl and Computers faculty. It is meant to

encourage acquiring knowledge in an

educational and competitive mode.

The game is in its second year, attracting over

100 students in the 2008-2009 academic year.

The best students were given special awards

at the end of the competition.

WoUSO is being actively developed and will

continue into the 3rd version. The

technologies used are web specific: PHP,

MySQL, Smarty and XML.

WoUSO is a free open source software and is

distributed under an open source license. It

was awarded the first prize during the

Scientific Student Presentations of 2008.

World of USOHammerfal Graphics Engine

The Hammerfall project aims at creating a

graphics engine using portable and open

source tools. Development and

implementation technologies include:

OpenGL, Python, SVN and Trac.

The project was launched over an year ago

and was part of the first edition of ROSEdu

Summer Of Code. This period was used for

establishing the projects baselines and

purpose. Development has continued to this

day and Hammerfall will be included in

ROSEdu Summer Of Code v2.

Our team consists of 1st, 2nd and 3rd year

students from the Automatic Control and

Computers Faculty, UPB.

The current goal is creating a generic graphics

engine that can be used in as many

applications as possible ranging from

simulators to computer games.

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vmchecker

Automated homework testing increases the

assignment quality and educational

experience of the students. This also

encourages students to create better

homework.

vmchecker is a scalable homework testing

framework that can be used for a wide range

of courses, enabling the evaluation of

homework needing complete administrative

rights on a system.

vmchecker is used to test homework forCompiler Course (java homework for source

code translation), Operating Systems (C/C++

homework using Linux/Windows syscalls),

Operating System Design (kernel drivers and

modules needing complete access on the

system) at the Computer Science department

in Politehnica University of Bucharest.

vmchecker was awarded the first prize during

the Scientific Student Presentations of 2009.

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Social Thingie

We all need a little R&R every now and then.

ROSEdu Social Thingie is focused on the more

social part of a community.

All work and no play makes John a robotic

programmer, and we dont want that at

ROSEdu. We want to include as much fun and

passion both in our projects and also other

activities. A little bit of fun is particularly

useful for team building and community

binding.

After two successful editions we decided to

organize Social Thingie events on a regular

basis. So far social activities included bowling,

air hockey and other games we consider fun.


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Sitewww.rosedu.org

Mailing listhttp://lists.rosedu.org/listinfo/rosedu-general

IRC channel#[email protected]

Trachttp://dev.rosedu.org

Live Contact"Politehnica" University of Bucharest, EG106c

(IXIA Lab).

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