[Fwd: Time to propose a CS Capstone Project!]

[shathawa]

This is an opportunity for Apache projects to propose an undergraduate
senior student project to support your development efforts.  You will need
to supply a mentor.  I can provide some on-campus support if required.

Sincerely,
Steven J. Hathaway
shathaway@a.o
 Original Message 
Subject: Time to propose a CS Capstone Project!
From:"D. Kevin McGrath" 
Date:Tue, August 4, 2015 11:44 am
To:  shath...@e-z.net
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Colleagues --

Just an reminder that we are still interested in your projects! If you've
already submitted one, thanks! If you're still thinking about it, feel
free to
contact me to discuss it.

Original call below.



Have you always wanted a particular software tool developed for your use, but
have never had the time to do it yourself? Well then, read on. Have I got
a deal
for you!

My name is Kevin McGrath. I am the instructor who runs the OSU Computer
Science
Senior Capstone class. The Capstone class is a 3-quarter (Fall, Winter,
Spring)
"career preparation" experience. The major piece of this is doing a
significant
3 member team project.

When the students come to the first class on September 24, I want to present
them with a list of exciting, creative, and real-experience software
engineering
project possibilities. This is where you come in. I am looking for you to use
your needs and experience to propose those project possibilities.

A web site has been setup to give you more information, and let you enter and
edit your project proposals:

http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/capstone/submission/

You have until September 24 to get yours in. That is the date the students
will
see them, and will start the selection process. In that process, I ask the
students to "bid" on their top 5 choices. I ultimately make the final project
assignments, but I try to take their preferences into account. I find I get
better results that way.

There will likely be more projects proposed than students teams to do
them. *So,
really sell your project.* Definitely don't understate its cool-ness
factor! The
more excited you sound in the description, the more excited they are
likely to
be when doing it. Excitement is contagious!

After projects have been selected, we will follow a client-contractor
model in
which I "run" the software contract company and you are one of our valued
clients. The students "report" to me, but you, as client, work directly with
them to design the requirements, set the timeline, approve the progress. You
also get to help assign grades.

This year I'm asking you to explicitly distinguish the projects that are
research oriented vs. those that are more software engineering focused. If
you
would like to propose a research project for the students, please indicate
this
using the Additional Comments field.

Given the nature of a research oriented project, I find that better
results are
had if the students are initially aware of the type of project. If you are
unsure, that is not a problem. I'm happy to work with you on the details
of your
project -- just submit it, and then we can chat about any changes that
might be
necessary.

Any project can be proposed from anybody. I don't care where you are from,
just
that your project represents an excellent software engineering experience for
the students.

Do remember, however, that these are seniors. They have taken the core
classes
so far, but most have not taken some of the electives that would really
help in
some projects, such as graphics, AI, computer vision, etc. Keep that in mind
when proposing.

If you have questions or want to discuss project possibilities, feel free to
contact me at:

 D. Kevin McGrath
 Instructor, Computer Science
 Oregon State University
 2109 Kelley Engineering Center
 541-737-1420
 dmcgr...@eecs.oregonstate.edu

Thanks for your time -- I look forward to working with you!

If you'd like to see currently proposed projects as the students will see
them, see

 http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/capstone/capstone.cgi?projects=cs

 -- Kevin McGrath

Apache Meetups, Aug 11-18

[Rich Bowen]

The following are the meetups I'm aware of in the coming week where
Apache enthusiasts are likely to be present. If you know
of others, please let me know, and/or add them to
http://apache.org/events

If there's a meetup in your area, please consider attending. If you
attend, please consider taking a few photos, and possibly even writing
up a brief summary of what was covered.

--Rich

* Tue Aug 11 in Seattle, WA, US: What's New in Solr 5 Security & Solr 
Custom Collector: The Anti-Score - 
http://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Solr-Lucene-Meetup/events/223899316/


* Tue Aug 11 in Austin, TX, US: IBM Bluemix's - Spark Analytics and 
Cloud Data Services - 
http://www.meetup.com/Big-Data-Revealed-Austin/events/224495780/


* Tue Aug 11 in Waltham, MA, US: A Cloud Foundry Framework for Apache 
Mesos - 
http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Area-Cloud-Foundry-Meetup/events/224306788/


* Tue Aug 11 in Houston, TX, US: Michael Drob: Solr & Cloudera - 
http://www.meetup.com/Houston-Hadoop-Meetup-Group/events/223231943/


* Tue Aug 11 in Austin, TX, US: Learn about IBM Bluemix's Cloud Data 
Services - 
http://www.meetup.com/Austin-PaaS-Cloud-and-Bluemix-meetup/events/224456741/


* Tue Aug 11 in Laguna Hills, CA, US: OCJavaScript&friends Simulsquad™ 
Coworking/training+Social on your topics - 
http://www.meetup.com/OCJavaScript/events/223274455/


* Tue Aug 11 in Phoenix, AZ, US: Sports and Predictive Analytics - 
http://www.meetup.com/Data-Science-Phoenix/events/223781094/


* Tue Aug 11 in London, 17, GB: Container Infrastructure - 
http://www.meetup.com/Contain/events/223782347/


* Tue Aug 11 in New York, NY, US: Big Data with Hadoop and Spark( 6 
weeks of Tues/Thur) - 
http://www.meetup.com/NYC-Data-Science-Academy/events/224492614/


* Tue Aug 11 in Nottingham, J9, GB: First Meetup! - 
http://www.meetup.com/East-Midlands-Front-End/events/223700811/


* Wed Aug 12 in Phoenix, AZ, US: "Connecting Professional Resources" 
Monthly Meeting - 
http://www.meetup.com/Senior-Healthcare-Professionals/events/223660443/


* Wed Aug 12 in Tel Aviv-Yafo, IL: Meetup with Lin Nease - IoT Chief 
Technologist, HP - http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/events/224253296/


* Wed Aug 12 in Mountain View, CA, US: Introduction to using H2O for 
Data Science - http://www.meetup.com/H2Omeetup/events/223610740/


* Wed Aug 12 in Atlanta, GA, US: Summer Scala - 
http://www.meetup.com/atlanta-scala/events/223977006/


* Wed Aug 12 in Los Angeles, CA, US: B2B Business Opportunities with 
Samsung Knox - http://www.meetup.com/laphonegap/events/224278400/


* Wed Aug 12 in San Jose, CA, US: Live Session - BIG Data Analytics via 
Hive - 
http://www.meetup.com/San-Jose-BIG-Data-Hadoop-Learning-Group/events/224559173/


* Wed Aug 12 in Mountain View, CA, US: Elastic Meetup at Netflix - 
http://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Valley-Elastic-Fantastics/events/224400110/


* Wed Aug 12 in Irvine, CA, US: Polyglot comms - Protocol Buffers and 
Thrift and what they do for you - 
http://www.meetup.com/oc-u-py/events/224081660/


* Wed Aug 12 in Washington, DC, US: Live Session - BIG Data Analytics 
via Hive - 
http://www.meetup.com/Washington-BIG-Data-Hadoop-Learning-Group/events/224560066/


* Thu Aug 13 in Dayton, OH, US: DDV - Visualizing Big Data and 
Exploratory Data Analysis with R - 
http://www.meetup.com/daytondv/events/222477218/


* Thu Aug 13 in Sterling, VA, US: Enterprise Dataflow with Apache NiFi - 
http://www.meetup.com/Code-Brew/events/223935951/


* Thu Aug 13 in Hanover, MD, US: Happy Hour for Java Professionals - 
http://www.meetup.com/dc-java/events/223996187/


* Thu Aug 13 in Seattle, WA, US: Monthly Meetup: Apache Cordova and 
Maker.js - http://www.meetup.com/seattlejs/events/220102652/


* Thu Aug 13 in Westminster, CO, US: Thursday 13-August 2015 meetup, 6pm 
@ DU - http://www.meetup.com/RMOUG-Big-Data-SIG-Meetup/events/22403/


* Thu Aug 13 in Atlanta, GA, US: Taste Wrecking Bar Beers and talk about 
Building a Streaming Data Platform - 
http://www.meetup.com/ATL-Tech-Tastings-Meetup/events/224379605/


* Thu Aug 13 in American Fork, UT, US: Let's get together to talk about 
C*. - http://www.meetup.com/Utah-Cassandra-Meetup/events/224032836/


* Thu Aug 13 in London, 17, GB: Think your software is fault tolerant? 
Prove it! - Christopher Batey - 
http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/224097883/


* Thu Aug 13 in Princeton, NJ, US: Spark Streaming - 
http://www.meetup.com/nj-datascience/events/222851584/


* Thu Aug 13 in Hamburg, DE: Spark at Akanoo - 
http://www.meetup.com/BDNSHH/events/223963763/


* Thu Aug 13 in Los Angeles, CA, US: Study Session: Angular.JS & Ionic 
Framework With Troy Miles - 
http://www.meetup.com/javascriptla/events/223847981/


* Fri Aug 14 in Ottawa, ON, CA: Regular Friday get-together - 
http://www.meetup.com/Promoting-Open-Source-Libre-to-the-Canadian-government/events/224171506/


* Fri Aug 14 in Santiago, CL: Data science y visualización de 
información: experiencias y demostraciones - 
http://www.meetup.c

Re: Mysterious email reflector

[Ulrich Stärk]

I guess that the spammer subscribed manually (or automated) the regular way, 
i.e. with an email to
dev-subscribe and a subsequent confirmation.

Anyway, I hope I have unsubscribed them now.

Uli

On 11.08.15 01:25, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 10:42 AM, sebb  wrote:
> 
>> A moderator could unsubscribe them...
> 
> I wonder if a moderator has approved their messages and added them to
> the "allow" list.  We could detect that case if the culprit is
> subscribed to dev-allow@community but not dev@community.
> 
> I'm trying to understand how we have spam problems here but not on
> many other ASF lists.
> 
> Marvin Humphrey
>