Sessions

Building Interactive Displays with Touchscreen 2.0

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Accepted Session
Cooking
Short Form
osb2010-0404
Scheduled: Wednesday, June 2, 2010 from 2:30 – 3:15pm in Broadway
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Excerpt

Touchscreen is a platform for creating interactive kiosk and dashboard displays. It powers presentations for visitors to the Open Source Lab's data center and the network operations center. Come learn how touchscreen works and how to use it for your own display screens.

Description

Touchscreen is a platform for creating interactive kiosk and dashboard displays. Its built with well known technologies making it easy to create custom content for your own display.

Touchscreen 2.0 powers presentations about the Open Source Lab’s data center and the network operations center. It provides our admins and our visitors with graphical representations of real-time data about our network operations.

Come Learn about:

  • What touchscreen is, and what it can do for you.
  • How version 2.0 was built (and our successes and failures along the way)
  • How to implement content plugins for touchscreen including:
    • Using Raphael and SVG for graphics and animation
    • How to quickly mash up content sources with jquery

Tags

design, python, css, django, jQuery, touchscreen, svg

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Speakers

  • Peter_0

    Peter Krenesky

    Open Source Lab

    Biography

    Peter is the Lead Software Engineer for the Open Source Lab. He has been professionally developing open source software for the OSL for over 5 years. His primary areas of expertise are object oriented design, data modeling, and software architecture. His language of choice is Python but he is also experienced in Java, C++ and numerous other languages.

    Peter’s current project’s include Protein Geometry Database a tool aiding biochemistry research, and Pydra a cluster computing solution for Python. Past projects have included software for One Laptop Per Child and Helix Media Player. In his spare time he hacks on Android applications.

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    Rob McGuire-Dale

    OSU Open Source Lab

    Biography

    I am a student developer with the Open Source Lab, and a senior at Oregon State University studying computer science. I have developed a continually-growing passion for open-source software, and hope to eventually work as a software engineer for a company that understands the importance of contributing back to the community.

    I am about to move up to the Seattle area for a six-month internship at Boeing. When the internship is over, I plan to finish the few classes I have left to graduate, and then enter into the Peace Corps.

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