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About OED

  • OED (Open Energy Dashboard) provides a fast, high-quality, general use web browser-based dashboard to acquire, archive, analyze & display resource usage
  • OED is 8 years old and had 109 students work on it last academic year with 11 from RCOS
  • Uses many technologies: Java/TypeScript, promises, PostgreSQL, React/Redux, Plotly, Docker, Node, Express, Webpack, Chai/Mocha, …
    • OED welcomes student developers who have completed CSCI 1200 (Data Structures) or have enough programming background
      • Experience with JavaScript or able to learn languages fast

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Why work on OED

  • Help make a difference about the critical issue of climate change and sustainability
  • Learn/work with important technologies/frameworks
  • Engage with an education-oriented project where student learning and mentorship is central
    • We provide high-quality help/mentoring via regular video meetings & Discord
      • I was a professor for 25 years who now mentors students work on OED
    • You have choices on areas/technologies to work on
  • See if we can get OED available for RPI

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More Info

  • More info at GitHub site, website, RCOS Discord (@SteveOED#1101)/OED Channel (invite link) and/or email me (StevenHussLederman@OpenEnergyDashboard.org)
    • Web search of “free energy dashboard” should have OED high/top of the list
    • “OED” search gets you the Oxford English Dictionary (OED dashboard is better )
  • The developer help pages have information on setting up the dev environment, getting started and lots of other info
  • OED is here for you so you can be here for the environment!