Presents our progress on the Floodlight Project for the Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software. Presentation given on 4/16/10.

1. FloodLight:Mid-Semester Presentation Graylin Kim Cihan Caglayan

2. Open Legislation Python Library FloodLight API FloodLight Library FloodlightProject.org Software Plan

3. Milestone 1: Initial Research – Open Legislation, senate processes and terminology (Done) Tentative Software Plans (Done) Milestone 2: OpenLeg Python Library implementation and documentation (In progress) OpenLeg Library testing (Not started) FloodLight Library design (In progress) Milestone 3: FloodLight API FloodLightLibrary Floodlight Library testing Milestone 4: FloodlightProject.org data modelling Refine implementation and documentation of libraries More testing Semester Milestones – TL;DR

4. Research Open Legislation NYS Senate Legislative Processes Technologies Working w/ OpenLeg Finding and reporting bugs and other issues Communicating w/ NYS Senate CIO on use Software Planning Actual code OpenLeg Python Library Up to This Point

5. Communication sometimes slow Answers can take hours to days Django deployment issues Issues

6. Finish back end work Pull non-FloodLightOpenLeg tools out of the Floodlight repo and deploy Get everything thoroughly tested Begin work on FloodlightProject.org Real, useable web service Actual information visualizations! Future Plans

7. Versioning and releases? Unit testing APIs? Automated testing? Best licensing for this project? Our Questions for You (for now and later)

8. Thank you Professor Moorthy for your support of RCOS and our project Thanks to Sean O’Sullivan for making RCOS possible Thanks to other RCOS members for invaluable help on our project and others Thanks

9. Questions, Comments, Answers?