Open source activities social network

Abstract

Through this Final Year Project, we wanted to study whether using a software engineering approach and intelligent techniques, we could implement a system that would help committees and organising teams in their daily running. Through the various requirement gathering techniques used and the background literature review that were carried out, we were able to come out and implement a system which aims to specifically do so. In the evaluation of the system we see that by the use of the Agile software development life cycle we were able to build prototypes which then made up a very robust system, with very few little bugs being reported during the beta testing. We were also able to implement the system in a way to be as easy to use as possible, which was depicted by our users themselves. By the use of the recommendation engine, we were able to give personalised recommendations to the users in order to tempt them to contribute to other similar events. During the focus group interview that was carried out, we were able to conclude that it served as a great addition to our social networking site. Even more, having gathered the users Facebook likes, the engine was able to compute better recommendations. Last but not least, in order to help committees we had to evaluate the three main features that were introduced in CALBUD: the Document Management System, Meeting Management System and the Group Chat. All of these were rated with a high rating from the beta testers, and during the focus group interview we were able to depict that by the use of the meeting management system and the document management system, committees will lose less time during the meetings themselves. This is since the system allows them to prepare and approve the agenda and minutes collaboratively and also allows them to annotate on media files.