Thursday, May 21, 2009

Dear Students,

I hope you are doing well in your final exams and also that you have the best of the chances for obtaining very good marks. I am writing because I have some news for our project:

1) We finally have been assigned to a Trac and SVN from DFKI. The Trac system will work apart from the blog and only for everything related to the tasks performance. However, we can continue using the blog for everything else. In the Trac system you are able to see which tasks (or tickets) are emitted for being made by you. On the other hand, the SVN is a server that contains all our files related to reports, code or miscellaneous. Also, you need to familiarise to use the SVN functionality and commands only by yourselves. Then if you decide not to use the console commands, you might need to install a client as in any other server service such as FTP, HTTP, etc. The addresses for Trac and SVN are respectively:


The task or tickets which you already have been assigned can be found in the tab option “RoadMap”. In t his section, you can see the project Milestones. The Milestones show the state of our project and are composed by tickets that you can access from the “Total tickets:” link of each Milestone. Later on, you will receive the user/password to the email account: roboticamovil.cem@itesm.mx

2) Also, for each ticket (or task) that you have already accomplished, I would ask you to put a short comment as the ones you made on the blog. The comment should have your name followed by a brief comment about the goals you achieve and the difficulties you found in order to accomplish your task. These comments will work as a testimony for the DFKI project leaders’ as a feedback of this project as of any other project from DFKI.

So, for finishing all the Milestones we need to close each of their assigned tickets. Therefore, for finishing the tickets all of you are required to type on the ticket space for “Comments” and only then the ticket can be closed. Specifically, after all of you make your comments on the tickets of Milestones 2, 3 and 4; I would like to ask Carlos G. to close these tickets as soon as possible.

3) You can continue your work for Milestone 5 and 6 as soon as possible.

4) Finally, we have some slow improvements for establishing the exchange program. As you might already know, firstly we would need to know which ones of you could come with and without any scholarship from DAAD, as this program has not been established yet. Secondly, we will need to know from you the subject you are able to take here in the University of Bremen too.

The classes are provided by Faculties depending on each subject. I would think you are capable of taking courses in Engineering and Computer Science faculties but I don’t know whether you will like to take “cursos sellos” from other faculties. Also, you will need to check the master programs as these classes are done in English and they will require mostly the same work as the ones from Bachelor. Besides, you can check also any “Erasmus” or international courses which are also dedicated to international exchange programs.

Unfortunately, most of the subjects are in German so we need you to check the following links in order to get some information about the possibilities of subjects that you can take for the “summer semester” as it is called here. The links are organised in order to provide as much information as possible and you might need to translate some parts using in online translator (google is a good one)

It is very important you can do this research as soon as possible with your degree director, so we can continue establishing the exchange program with people from both universities.

a) Master courses given in English
http://www.master.uni-bremen.de/english/nts.php3

b) Master and international programs.
http://www.io.uni-bremen.de/studiumbremen/internationalprog1.html

c) Courses given by DFKI staff that could be given in English, mostly about robotics.
http://robotik.dfki-bremen.de/de/lehre.html

d) Courses given by DFKI staff that could be given in English, mostly about robotics.
http://www.uni-bremen.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungsausgabe?pi_sg_id=239

e) List of all courses given to “Informatics” students that in the right column is possible to see if they have English information. Theoretically, it could be possible to provide such course in English but is not always like this.
http://www.uni-bremen.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungsausgabe?pi_sg_id=239

f) All courses given in University of Bremen.
http://www.dbs.uni-bremen.de/sixcms/list.php?page=sort&e

g) You can check if there is any course given in “Digital Media Master” as these are in English.
http://www.digitale-medien-bremen.de/images/stories/service/Courses/master_courses2009.pdf

h) The bachelor courses of Digital Media but not necessarily in English.
http://www.digitale-medien-bremen.de/images/stories/service/Courses/bachelor_courses2009.pdf

i) Courses for the "Master of Science in Communication and Information Technology and Information and Automation Engineering"
http://www.mci.uni-bremen.de/index.php3?seite=structure

Many thanks,

Renato.

3 comments:

  1. --->This is a comment I received from Arturo.

    Hi Renato!!!

    I have a doubt, I see that tickets from 1 to 8 are already closed. This means that we have to start working from 9??? because in this mail you sent, you said that we had to comment from milestone 5 and 6 so I´m a little confused.

    And on the other hand, only we have to comment each task or do something else like a detailed description of what we did???

    Regards, thank you.

    Arturo Camarillo Rodriguez.

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  2. Hi all,

    I decided to post it because perhaps some of you could have same question. I hope it is not such a proble for you Arturo ;-).

    The milestones are the ticket containers or if you want to see it like a big task to do. Inside each milestone there are some task (tickets) that conform it. In the case of the tasks you have already presented as finished for the first project revision, I am asking you to comment on the ticket (check the comments already done).

    I reopened for you ticket #8 so (all) of you can comment it as well. Also, you only have to do the tickets that you have been assigned as: "Owned by: Carlos L., Caros G., Arturo, Jorge, Laura, Luis".

    Please let me know if you have more questions about it.

    Renato.

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  3. --> I include another FAQ about this task, now from Carlos G.:

    "Qué onda Renato, te mando este correo porque ya vi más o menos qué materias dicen que se dan en inglés pero no hay nada de información sobre lo que cubren las materias y pues para arreglar eso lo más pronto posible, no sé si tu me puedas decir dónde conseguir la información. Le mandé un correo al Prof. Dr. Walter Anheier que se supone que es quien puede dar informes sobre estas materias pero hasta el momento no me ha contestado nada, le dije a mi director de carrera sobre esto y me dijo que veíamos qué onda para no retrasar tanto todo el proceso mañana mismo."

    --->Answer: Hola Carlos,

    Si tienes razon no tienen link y basicamente tienes que buscartelas en internet.

    Ejemplo:

    1) Voy a buscar el plan de estudios de: "Power Converter Technology II"
    2) Google: "Orlik, Bernd Bremen". Esto quiere decir que voy a buscar al profesor que da la clase.
    3) En el 2do link me manda a su pagina de la universidad.
    4) En la seccion de "Lectures and labs" seguro la encuentras.


    I hope this is useful for all of you.

    Cheers,

    Renato

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