A project tracking dashboard for Rensselaer Center for Open Source. A ground up rewrite.

Working to replace a system with these features. See our planned feature set.

Observatory is a powerful dashboard tracking open source projects and contributors that are built through Rensselaer Center for Open Source. the current implemenation can be seen in action at rcos.rpi.edu. We are a highly active community of open source developers that attend school at Rensselaer.

Key Features Include

• Project Tracking
• Individual Progress reports
• Attendance system for users
• Information gathering and blog platform for projects

Once the project is cloned you need nodejs (nodejs-legacy for debian-based distributions), npm, ruby, and Mongo DB. You can then run

npm install -g grunt-cli grunt bower
npm install
# if you have errors running the above, run the following line:
sudo chown $USER -R ~/.npm
bower install
sudo gem install sass
sudo service mongodb start # or equivalent if not on an ubuntu-based distribution
# if mongodb fails to start, run the following line and retry:
sudo mkdir -p /data/db
grunt serve

Grunt will run the server and make the project available at http://localhost:9000.

Want to develop with us? Check out the generator we use at here.