OpenAcademy at Columbia UniversityOpenAcademy is a program that sets current college students up with mentors and projects in the open source community. In OpenAcademy's semester at Columbia our students have worked all semester with teams around the world to bring fixes and features to real open source projects.
We have our final presentations on May 8 in the CS Lounge. Check out each group's page to learn more about their project and see their presentation.
KDevelop is a free, open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Linux, Mac OS X and other Unix flavors. It is a feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++, Ruby, Python, PHP and other programming languages.
MongoDB reinvents data management and powering big data as the leading NoSQL database. It has a thriving global community with over 4 million downloads, 200,000 online education students, and 20,000 user group members.
Eclipse Orion is a web based editor that takes advantage of the tools available in modern browsers to make development of web-based projects, particularly those using node.js, a breeze. Orion features a text editor with syntax highlighting, live preview of web pages, and access node.js functionality such as npm and node commands for in-browser development.
Ruby on Rails is an open source web application framework written in Ruby. It's a powerful, full stack framework that practices the MVC paradigm and is extremely popular to its quick bootstrapping, solid libraries/gem support, and Convention over Configuration utilization that results in the ability for Rails developers to quickly jump into any other Rails application codebase.
Redis provides a base feature set from which a graph database engine can be built efficiently. Redis is a data-structure server, providing blazingly fast read/write speeds. It has mature support for asynchronous replication that forms the backbone of highly available and reliable systems. Benchmarks and some initial tests demonstrate that Redis is a good choice for such a graph search and analysis engine.