Each group presented their top three projects in class yesterday to see what everyone is interested in. Unlike last semester in CSCI 362, each group's top pick was different, so that made it easy for every group to choose their top pick as their project for the semester. My group's top choice was XBMC (Xbox Media Center) and we will be having another team meeting this Sunday to talk about it.
Our assignment to do before Friday's class is join an IRC channel for our project. We are to look at the history and listen to the traffic. In addition, we are to join an e-mail or newsgroup list and find an interesting thread to explore.
Now, for those of you following this blog and aren't sure what I'm talking about, don't worry. I'm just learning about this too. IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. Basically, it's a way for multiple users to chat about a project over multiple channels. You use an IRC client program to be able to send messages to the others users. There is an online tutorial available at http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/irctutorial.html if any of you are interested in checking it out on your own that tells you how to get started using IRCs. Another website that might be helpful is http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_communicate_using_IRC.
I tried to join the XBMC forum on their website and it wouldn't let me register. I tried twice and was rejected both times. It seems to think I'm a spammer. I'm not sure what the problem is, but I sent a message to the administrator to see if the problem can be resolved. Other than that minor headache, the forum is filled with a lot of interesting threads -- developments, feature suggestions, help and support, hardware. Almost every subject heading for the threads has a time stamp that shows it had activity today, and there is box at the bottom of the page that shows you how many users are currently active in the forums. It's really neat and I can't wait to get the chance to explore it further.
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