18 teams comprising 58 students put all their programming skills to work for a two-hour hackathon that took place on 27th November at Saint Louis University.
The last Strange loop conference took place in Saint Louis this September and our students got the opportunity to volunteer at the event. It was a unique learning experience for the students.
We launched first monthly open source software workshop at the SLU Library's ATC. Students got a hands-on practice creating and using a portable Linux. It was a great success that exceeded the expectations of all the planners.
Members from Open-Source Science (OSSci) were at Saint Louis University and our students had an opportunity to be panelists and organizing members for discussion.
Saint Louis University Computer Science Department starts and open source program office with a generous $704,482 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.