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A week or so ago, Guy and I decided to switch back from the minor we were doing at Utrecht University. As it turned out, the supposed level of math was so different than my own level, that I couldn’t keep up with it, so we switched back to Hogeschool Utrecht.

At first I was disappointed that we had to switch back, but now that I’m there, I feel home again. So, instead of our previous plans, Mattijs, Guy and I are going to try and do some research, and the results will be implemented in a now-not-so-ready-but-workable my.hunix.nl.

The idea is to find out (for both students and lecturers) what the current problems are while doing project-oriented assignments. For example, students have not one, but multiple places where they have to leave their work logs, and on top of that no decent templates, because every lecturer has his or her own definition of them, so student have to meet different demands, etc.
After we’ve determined a solid set of problems and solutions, we will create a portal for both parties, where they have a nice and easy overview of what they’re actually doing at that point.

Nice thing about this for me is that I’ve time to assist at the preHBO again, because I now don’t have to study until midnight and later to keep up with the courses

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Finally I have some time to write another post to you, my dear readers!

After starting up the HULK for about a fortnight, we started to bring up ideas for projects (so if anyone has an idea…). Actually, while I’m writing this I realize that I haven’t told you anything yet about the HULK (hmm.. weird).
Well, HULK stands for Hogeschool Utrecht Linux Kennisgroep, and consists of a few classmates and yours truly, who try to give Linux a shot in our university, the Hogeschool of Utrecht. The website is in Dutch, so if you want to follow up on it, you have to be able to read it.

We thought about some really cool projects like building our own Ubuntu distribution, HUbuntu , setting up Linux on mobile devices, teaching Unix, and also some smaller projects like building a logbook to keep track of what we’re doing and to provide student services (SSH access, web servers, database servers, etc.). Apart from that, I’ve started learning c(++), and for practice I’m building an IRC client, called skaar.

Next week, together with Mattijs, I’m starting on the logbook which will be built in PHP, so that we can start logging quickly.

Keeping you posted!

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