Atlast Office Buddy - Alpha Version out!

At last, after 2 months of work. Completed the alpha version of Office Buddy project. All the changes are committed to the SVN. If you want to check out the code, please use branch/alpha as the trunk has still old data.

Project Link: http://code.google.com/p/officebuddy/

Its made open-source, under Apache License 2.0. If anyone is using this project, please drop me a mail or a confirmation, I'll add you to the list of usability. Also, if you find any bugs or usability problems, please report them in the issues tab.

Update: At last i gave a demo today. Everything was good, and the AO has proposed some new additions. Will patch accordingly, and let you know.

PS: This is update post.

Fuzzy Speaker

Fuzzy Speaker, is a gesture based project for giving speech to dumb people. It was mainly inspired by Sixth Sense by Pranav Mistry, and Project Un-Mute by Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu of Microsoft.

Project Description:

Its a wearable device, that can detect gesture language of the dumb and speak for them.

Authors:

Ashwanth Kumar, Gaurav Kumar, Nilesh Kumar of SASTRA SRC, Kumbakonam.

Related Papers: (Papers inspired us)

1. http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/#PUBLICATIONS
2. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=928579

Update: This project was accepted by our Dean, for sending to CENTRE FOR TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFER (CTDT) for funding. Keeping the fingers crossed.

TGMC as a Final Year Project?!

Guys,

I was browsing through the wikis' of TGMC '10, and i harped upon this (http://bit.ly/d3a0sp).
Wiki Page titled, "TGMC Project as Final Year Project", For all my final year friends, do u think will be able to implement this in our university or the campus?

Please do comment, what do you think about this!

Scalable Parallel and Distributed Environment (SPADE)

Today, at around 6.30 PM i went to Nivas's house, to discuss generally about SPADE (his final year project) and sample search engine, built with it. I actually learned a lot from that, and this post is to reflect the same in words. This is basically for my own purpose, just in case. If this was useful to you by any means, please leave a comment, or say your thanks to him.

SPADE -3 Properties:

1. Object Oriented Support - full support for all data types
2. Distributed cache vs DB
3. Scalability on the fly (as opposed to the need to rewrite source, recompile and redeploy in MPI)
4. Dynamic scheduling - No barrier synchronization - no static binding of code to machine
5. Asynchronous Communication as opposed to blocking sends and receives
6. Fault tolerance - no single point of failure

SPADE Abstract can be found here: http://bit.ly/8XMeTr

I'm currently planning to work with him, on this environment to implement the Research Engine, for ThinkQuest 2011. Again, time'll answer everything. I'll keep this updated, as we progress further.

Opensource Project Hosting @ SRC - Part II

Hello,

This is just an update blog post. The "Opensource Project Hosting", at SRC has been approved by our System Admin. So, if anyone is interested in join this project please let me know!

Contact Details: ashwanth.kumar@gmail.com

Requirements: U should be a student of SRC.

Open Source Project Management in SRC

The following post is available for all my SRC, SASTRA frnds only. Never mind, if u're an old or present student if u've any connection for SASTRA SRC, Kumbakonam. Then its for you!

I would like to propose a new project to implement using the H/W power on our college server. Its Opensource project hosting. Like sourceforget.net, Google Code Project Hosting, Git, etc.

Features of this proposal

• Students given an account and allowed to create multiple projects on the server.
  
• Server supports Subversion, Mercurial, and if possible Git also.
• They're given a Issue Tracking system (like Trac).
• Others can also join them to code an application.

General focus is on final year students, who can use this repository for their final year projects, so that once they're out, juniors can work on the same topic to improve the existing system. Actual scope of this project is very less, but the main reason behind is to make is more effective along side the SRC-FOSS and make students contribute to it (not only by using/sitting in the class but) by actually working on wat they use as OSS.

Please post your like or dislike of this proposal in the comments.

PS: This is just my own proposal, i'ven't yet talk'd about this to any FOSS (pre/post/current) member(s). Will they approve for this? OMG! Thats a $1,000,000,000 question!

Update 1: This is a series of project proposals for SRC. If you've any ideas or proposals, leave it as a comment.

SRC Office Automation - On 2nd (3rd) Year

Its been 2 years now, since i've first stepped foot on my SASTRA SRC campus as a student. Its been so great that i never realized the day flying by. I would like to add a feather on this beautiful day, with a short info that happened just yesterday.

"Our Office, u know what? Maintains all the student info in a Excel Workbook!! OMG! Is SASTRA that bad?"

"Every time, i need to pay the fees and get a receipt, that guy takes eternity!!"

"SRC needs to grow a lot more!"

These were some of the usual comments we students normally say on seeing the condition of our management (at least in our campus). All that now gone in thin air? (Y??) I've been called by our AO (or is it EO, or an office staff?? I'm still not sure about it actually but all i know is that its official) and has been asked to do automation application for our campus.

I saw the Excel sheets in my own eyes and never believed the complexity involved! That poor guy maintains 5 *.xls files, with 6 - 10 sheets each (most of them were reports). The speed at which he moves in Excel was out-standing. To be really honest i never thought our campus office guy can work at this speed.

Who would've thought? Me getting the work, which i've been commenting about for the past 2 years. I feel very proud (dont know y though, probably cauz its for our office) and happy :)

Today, i completed the Data Model for their application and got the approval from the client (:wink:).

TO My Fellow SRC Dudes_&_Dudities: If you're interested, please let me know. Cauz i'm working on this project and many others (for our campus) alone. If you would like to join hands with me please do so!