08-16, 09:30–10:20 (US/Eastern), Metcalf Hall (capacity 300)
Start the day off with a view into real student experiences with open source! Undergraduates from the UMass Lowell SoarCS summer program will present summaries of the fun and amazing projects they have worked on over the summer. A few Red Hat interns will also speak about their ongoing projects and experiences as interns!
Join us to learn more about what the future generation is up to in the open source world!
SoarCS Projects
- QuickSwitch - Phi Nguyen & Cristian Cannella
- Tileset Maker - Eevie Booth
- Haunted Mansion Escape - Himani G., Kelby C., & Priscilla V.
- Foxfire Alchemy - Armando Oritz
- ALPR Prototype - Lourenco DaSilva, Vettri Velmurugan, & Jack Scholander
- PYphone - Om Patel, Jayam Patel, & Shubh Patel
- Scramble - Molly Cao
RH Intern Projects
The Open Education Project: Using Technology to Improve Classroom Environments - Meera Malhotra
This presentation covers the Open Education Project (OPE), an open source project started by Red Hat Research that provides tooling for both students and professors. OPE is a command line tool that professors can create customizable containerized lab environments to teach computer science with, as well as tooling to author their own hosted textbooks with. The talk will go over how the tool is used, how it can assist professors in improving classroom environments, and how professors (or anyone interested) can create content with the tool. It will cover a student’s perspective who has both used the tool to learn programming and later contributed to the development of the tool, and share textbook content created from the tool.
ESI UI on OpenStack Dashboard - Austin Jamias
ESI stands for Elastic Secure Infrastructure, which is a resource allocation and initial provisioning tool that we use in the Mass Open Cloud. Please use the full name instead of "ESI" in the program (but you don't need to change the slides. Austin did not provide a bio, so you can say simply that he is a Boston University undergraduate and a Red Hat intern in the Research group.
Urvashi is a Principal Software Engineer on the OpenShift Containers Team at Red Hat. She has spent the last few years developing Open Source container tools including Podman, Buildah, CRI-O, Skopeo, Kubernetes, and OpenShift. She is passionate about sharing her work and has given talks at various conferences including KubeCon, DevConf, and SCaLE. Urvashi is also a co-organizer of DevConf.US and an instructor at Boston University.
Meera Malhotra (she/her) is a computer science student at Boston University, and a Red Hat software engineering intern in the Research Department. She currently works on the Open Education Project, and is passionate about open source.