Re: LUG: State of Open Source - Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:58:22 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: State of Open Source

From : Andrew Austin <adausti2@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:58:22 -0400

There is always iTrust. http://agile.csc.ncsu.edu/iTrust/wiki/doku.php

It's more of an educational tool than a practical EMR, however.

Andrew

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Brian Cottingham <spiffytech@gmail.[redacted]> wrote:
> A number of us work on small toy OSS projects like IRC bots, but
> unfortunately I think school keeps most of us too busy to contribute much to
> the OSS community.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Edward Anderson <nilbus@nilbus.[redacted]> wrote:
>>
>> Jack,
>> Even after graduating from NC State, I've been volunteering regularly with
>> a few others working on Dr. Geheringer's Expertiza project. It's a
>> peer-review web app written in Ruby on Rails that is used at a handfull of
>> universities. We open-sourced it on Github
>> (http://github.com/expertiza/expertiza) to encourage open participation,
>> both with reporting issues and getting developers to contribute. Switching
>> to git has been great for integrating the contributions we get. We have a
>> variety of people contributing to the project now, including volunteers who
>> have since graduated, Dr. Gehringer and a few core developers, and
>> contributors from his object oriented design class. In the past several
>> months, we've made a lot of progress modernizing the project - getting it on
>> a newer version of the Rails framework, automating deploys, automating
>> acceptance testing (cucumber), and getting off subversion. We're focusing
>> now on expanding our test coverage and refactoring a lot of old Rails 1.x
>> code. We'd love to have others volunteer with the project. Let me know if
>> you have any other questions you'd like me to expand on.
>> Edward
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
>>>
>>> LUGers,
>>>
>>> I've been asked to do a 30 minute presentation at an IEC conference
>>> about Open Source happenings at NCSU.
>>>
>>> I'd like to be able to talk about some of the larger projects as well as
>>> the smaller projects. �So if you are interested in having the NCSU
>>> project that you contribute to or that you think is cool mentioned,
>>> please let me know. �A project name, URL, and one or two brief details
>>> would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jack
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.[redacted]>
>>> Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services
>>> Office of Information Technology, NC State University
>>> GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 �EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89
>>
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