CSSocUK

Inspiration

Katie run's the Computing Society at Salford University. Every week we have the same problem, a panic on Sunday as we realise we have nothing for next week. Every year we have to change hands, new people come in as old ones go and the newbies are left not knowing what needs to be done and what has already been done.

What it does

Our hack, CSSocUK allows not only previous committees to help the newbies but all societies in the UK. It allows societies to message each other, share talks, share opinions on guest lectures and trips. Allowing societies to ask for help from other societies, get lecture materials such as intro to git, short courses and more.

How we built it

We built out hack in PHP using Laravel, and MetroUI for the front end

Challenges we ran into

1 member of our team had never done an all nighter and did not know Laravel. We had 2 people who were somewhat familiar, but one was used to Laravel 5 and another hadn't used it in months. In addition to this we did not have a designer meaning our design and database took far longer than expected.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It works.

What we learned

We all picked up some new web dev skills, but mostly we learned where we still need to improve

What's next for CSSocUK

We'd like to continue it in an open source way allowing our societies and others to contribute to modules that they think they would find interesting. In works are modules for a ticketing system, offering advice for common problems.