It’s the Great Pull Request, Charlie B̵r̵o̵w̵n̵ Lewis
It’s that special time of year when the days get shorter, the CPU temps run just a little cooler, and the bits are ripening on the binary search trees. Of course I mean that Hacktoberfest is finally here again. For those that don’t know, Hacktoberfest is an initiative sponsored by Digital Ocean and the Dev Community to celebrate and encourage participation in open source projects. We here at Cyber Reboot will be participating for the fourth consecutive year.
In prior years, we have had great success both contributing to external projects and in drawing new contributors to our own and we hope to be able to do that again this year. In that spirit, I’d like offer up a few of our projects for consideration.
Poseidon, highlighted here for the third year, demonstrates our approach to making software defined networks (SDN) actionable. We’ve been hard at work adding some exciting new features that you are sure to hear about in the not too distant future. In the meantime, if you are curious, you can always try running it yourself in demo mode, no hardware required. Poseidon’s sister repository containing all of our Machine Learning code has been renamed NetworkML as we work to further modularize that aspect of our codebase.
CRviz is a browser-based visualization tool for visualizing assets on a network at scale. We have made a number of major improvements over the course of the last year, including introducing the capability to visualize differential data over time and a set of features that support annotation. That being said, we know there are still improvements that can be made. Try it out yourself on our demonstration site: https://cyberreboot.github.io/CRviz and help us keep improving.
If either of those piques your interest, please take a minute to check them out. We need help and feedback from the community to make them better. Please, keep an eye on our repos, as we will be applying Hacktoberfest tags in the coming days.
Alternately, if you are more interested in geospatial data and machine learning consider helping out our friends over at Cosmiq Works. Their Solaris project is doing amazing things to streamline the analysis pipeline for overhead imagery and they are always on the lookout for talented collaborators.
Happy Hacktoberfest and happy hacking.
