[wuug-list] Collaboration Projects?

[Aaron Mavrinac]

We could get a Git server going on wuug.org for these projects, and
give everyone interested in the group commit privileges. That way, we
could all fetch, tinker, and contribute, instead of just talking about
it. :)

Right now I'm working way too much on both school and my GSoC project,
but eventually I'll have some free time. Here are a couple ideas I
have:

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1. Finish BPNN / AI Library

I have a simple C++ class for a backpropagating neural network I wrote
for a machine learning course. I did it in a few hours, and all the
array sizes in it are defined statically at compile time, and there
are lots of inefficiencies. In general, though, it's a pretty useful
class, so if we could make it dynamic and more efficient it would
probably benefit lots of people doing this kind of thing.

http://www.mavrinac.com/index.cgi?page=bpnn

A more ambitious project would be to start implementing other types of
neural network and clustering algorithms in a similar fashion, and
releasing a WUUG artificial intelligence C++ library.

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2. Console Linux Distro/LiveCD

I used to carry around a FreeBSD laptop that, more out of necessity
than anything else, had no X and no GUI at all. It actually really
grew on me and to this day xterms make up the majority of my desktop
window population.

My idea is to make a Linux distribution or live CD that's just a
completely decked-out non-graphical desktop. Something that
automatically drops you into a screen session, comes with irssi and
mcabber and links, etc. The ultimate console desktop.

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Brad, I am also interested in distributed projects. My research is in
distributed computer vision. I am looking at Erlang right now to see
how it might benefit my message-passing stuff (which is currently
home-grown in Python), and I've also been reading papers on the
theory. I don't really have any particular ideas outside of my own
work but I'd love to get some broader experience.

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Aaron Mavrinac
www.mavrinac.com

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