Dashboard

A common platform for a campus. An easily accessible resource host which has curated content, relevant posts, common community-contributed portals for course reviews, timetables, share auto/taxi, in-campus event calendar; Literally everything that is relevant for your campus, in one place.

• We are using MEAN.js for Dashboard. Here are some basics if you want to learn:

  • https://thinkster.io/tutorials/mean-stack
  • https://scotch.io/
  • https://youtu.be/kHV7gOHvNdk

• You can try the current version by doing

$ npm start

at the root of this repository or running /bin/www file using IDEs, like Webstorm: https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/

• Github repo instructions:

  • Those who have less experience with git: https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/
  • Pull requests with good commits after review
  • An .md file for checking the work that is assigned.

• Parts of project as now are as listed:

  • AIMS auth-linking and parsing
  • Acadamics hub: all acads related info in one place.
  • Bus schedules: Bus schedules for the day displayed. Integrate with super-timetable and show optimal buses to catch with notifications.
  • Notifications hub - Meant to replace email as the mode of delivering information to students. Can be organised into clubs, events etc. Events can also be integrated with custom timetable.
  • Lost and found - One-stop for all lost-and-found announcements.
  • Super Calendar - An integrated calendar with mess time tables, custom class timetable, club events, talks etc. Basically everything a person does in a day.
  • Frontend + frontend scripting
  • Rest of the Backend and Database management

• We're on Slack - https://dashboard-lambda.slack.com/signup
  Choose your part and start working in the respective channel! If you have any ideas put them in #ideas, we will discuss it.