Mission Statement

To provide a creative, intellectual and entrepreneurial outlet for students to use the latest open-source software platforms to develop applications that solve societal problems.

Description

RCOS is a group of RPI students who work on open source projects. We meet every Tuesday in AE 214 from 4pm - 5pm (during regular semester) and Friday from noon to 1:00 pm (during summer) in Lally 104 to update our progress. Our members work on a variety of projects, as can be seen here. The projects page is itself our dashboard to help us keep up with the status of the projects!

Benefits of being an RCOS member

• The opportunity to help society by creating useful software.
• An excellent environment to share your skills with your peers and learn from them as well
• Great practice in the code review process, a very important skill for your software career!
• Practice giving and receiving feedback. Learning how to discuss technical and non-technical aspects of a project in a constructive fashion is a critical skill that employers look for!

Details

Students can participate in RCOS for course credit or for a stipend. At the beginning of each semester, the Internal Advisory Board will review project proposals and decide which projects should receive financial support.