Knome by Team6

CSCI3308 project by Team6.

Project Description

Social networking has been proven to be one of the most successful ideas facilitated by the internet. What we aim to do, is create an interactive map, where users can see events submitted by other users. These events can be anything! Whether you want to make others aware of a street performances, public events, or garage sales, other users browsing the map can see these events provided they are in close proximity to them. On the technical side, when a user submits an event, the geolocation of the user’s device is sent to the server, where we then plot the event on the universal map. Other users who are close in proximity would be able to view the events on this map, with the ability to change the radius of their range, depending on their mobility. With time, we plan on implementing features to the interactive map, such as highlighting regions of high crime-activity, or highly congested areas.

Vision Statement

For local communities who want to connect, Knome is an event mapping tool that provides real time information regarding local events and activities nearby. Unlike other interactive maps, our product adds social networking to give the user relevant information about the events taking place around them.

Risks

1. Google Maps API limitations may not allow us to have a 'pretty' interface for the map
2. Filtering malicious/inappropriate pins
3. Without porting to a mobile-application, may run into limitations regarding a web application on a mobile web-browser

Risk mitigation plan

• Use a different API if Google Maps does not provide all desired functionality.
• Allow users to ‘report’ possibly malicious / inappropriate pins.
• Reconvene at every checkpoint to assure identical visions of the end product of every group member.
• Have porting to a mobile application as a reach goal following the completion of the webapp.

Software Development Methodology:

• This project will utilize an Agile workflow, with project management done through Github Projects on the main fork of the repository

Collaboration Tools

• Slack for communication
• Github for version control
• Github Projects for project management
• Google docs for documents

Team 6 Members

Names	Emails	Github Username
Brent Dagdagan	brent.dagdagan@colorado.edu	t2nerb
Samuel Anoff	samuel.anoff@colorado.edu	sanoff
Andrew Casner	andrew.casner@colorado.edu	Andrew-Casner
Frank Harvey	franklin.harvey@colorado.edu	franklinharvey
Sam Cuthbertson	samuel.cuthbertson@colorado.edu	scuthbert
Daniel Holmes	daniel.holmes@colorado.edu	dholmescu

How to

1. Go to our github pages site.
2. Create and share events!