Week 3:

The third meeting was crucial to this semester; we had to determine which FOSS project to contribute. The projects we had to determine from are as follows: Eucalyptus, Firefox, Irrlicht, Sage, VLC, and Libre Office. All of these projects are every interesting, and each has its own uniqueness. Thus, everyone had a different opinion on each project and we had to vote which project to work on. After the vote, the results varied in big margins. Eucalyptus and Firefox were the top projects, followed by Irrlicht, sage, Libre Office, and finally VLC. Between Eucalyptus and Firefox, Eucalyptus received the most votes. Accordingly, this semester would be a learning experience for everyone as we take on Eucalyptus project.

Eucalyptus is a cloud-computing provider. It was started as a research project in the University of California, Santa Barbara. For more information about Eucalyptus, you can visit the following link: http://www.eucalyptus.com/about .

Now that the project is determined, task is to learn the design process behind it and learn how to contribute to the maximum as time allows us. I really look forward on making great contribution to this project, while enhancing my software development contribution towards FOSS oriented projects.