Meet the Fall 2010 Student Development team

The Fall 2010 team consisted of

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Andrew Haddad	Shiv Biddanda	Kimberly Soong
Rui Zhao	Anshita Kumar

We had a great team this semester. Shiv and Andrew ovevrsaw the server management and software development, Anshita worked on the Liaison Program, and Rui led a team of students developing the Collective Table of Formulas. Kim worked on all sorts of things, including alumni contacts and making sure everything is "perfect".

If you are interested in joining the team next semester, let us know!

Meet the Summer 2010 Student Development team

The Summer team consisted of three students.

Anshita Kumar	Andrew Haddad	Shiv Biddanda

Andrew was responsible for maintaining the server operations and overseeing the software development. Anshita worked on promotion and getting new ideas for the project. Shiv worked on Assimi. This was a small and productive team. We had a great time working together!

Meet the Spring 2010 Development team

Zach Mason	Chris Humbert	Anshita Kumar
Aakash Lamba	Dhruv Lamba	Ananya Panja	Andrew Haddad

In the Spring semester of 2010, Zach was responsible for maintaining the server operations and overseeing the software development and "Chris follows Zach's orders". One of their achievements that semester was the first version of a peer review system. Ananya took charge of the liaison program and did research on page data analysis. Anshita worked on traffic data analysis, promotion, and getting new ideas for the project. Shiv implemented the search results visualization tool. Aakash and Dhruv conceptualized and developed Roar, our new automatic test taking software. Ben was there, as always, to take initiatives and insure that the semester transition goes on smoothly. Among other things, he proposed the use of GoDaddy.com to buy our new domain name (www.projectrhea.org) as well as our SSL security certificate (a 50% saving!) Thanks Ben!

Meet the Fall 2009 Student Development team

Ben Brame	Zach Mason	Katie Bouman	Chris Humbert

In the Fall semester of 2009, Zach was responsible for maintaining the server operations and overseeing the software development. Katie worked on promotion and getting new ideas for the project, and Ben was there, as always, to take initiatives and insure that the semester transition goes on smoothly.

Meet the Summer 2009 Student Development team

Ben Brame	Zach Mason	Katie Bouman

In the summer of 2009, Ben oversaw the team transition. Zach joined the team and was very active developing software for the site. He is the one who added the short cuts for creating new pages/course pages/child pages, and he worked on implementing the first version of the system to support the liaison program. He also developed the dropbox. As always, Katie brought her great enthusiasm into the project and proposed some important features while working hard at promoting Rhea campus wide.

Meet the Spring 2009 Development team

The team for the Spring 2009 semester is currently being formed. So far, we have

Ben Brame	Deen King-Smith	Stephen Rudolph	Hector Santos	Nate Orlow	Chris Humbert

Ben took care of merging the many databases into a single one at the beginning of the semester. Deen arranged to get the URL www.purdue.edu/rhea and ordered the computers for the Rhea development lab. Stephen installed a syntax highlighting extension to display code. Nate enhanced the Help section by adding screen shots. He also did a lot of work on several different courses pages, contributing a large amount of material and keeping the pages organized while helping other students understand how Rhea works. Chris Humbert worked on the skin to make it compatible with different browsers. In particular, Rhea is now Internet Explorer 6 compatible thanks to his efforts. Chris is only a first year undergraduate, so we are really proud of his hard work!

Meet the Fall 2008 Student Development team

Ben Brame	Deen King-Smith	Stephen Rudolph	Dennis Snell	Mike Walker	Ben Horst

The Fall 2008 development team took care of migrating Kiwi into Rhea. (yes, I know it was a cute name, but we did not have a choice...) Ben Horst designed the Rhea logos. Dennis Snell and Mike Walker worked on developing the new skin with the Purdue color and a design distinctive from wikipedia. Stephen Rudolph and Mike Walker set up a backup server. Dennis Snell set up SVN. Ben Brame enabled dual login. Am I forgetting anything?

Initial Development Work

The initial development work was done in the Summer of 2007 by Katie Bouman (now at U. of Michigan) under the supervision of Professor Mimi Boutin. Katie remained on the project until the end of Summer 2008, participating in outreach activities and helping to create the kiwi instructinal video. Dennis Snell, an undergraduate student in ECE at Purdue, was instrumental in developing the first version of the kiwi using the zope software in Fall 2008 and concretely defining the project. He also orchestrated the migration to mediaWiki in Spring 2008. Deen King-Smith, a PhD student in ECE, took a leading role in the project in Spring 2008. William Ehlhardt, an undergraduate student in ECE, attacked some information management challenges in the Summer of 2008. He is also the one who designed the kiwi mascot and he is the voice on the kiwi instructional video. Stephen Rudolph, a masters student in ECE, took the lead of the project in the Summer 2008 and organized the migration to the new server. Ben Horst developed the Rhea logos in September 08.