Inspiration
thetruesize.com effectively communicates its message (how the Mercator projection distorts country sizes) in an almost instantly understandable way. We want users to understand how to use our site in the same way -- and potentially have fun in the same way.
What it does
Takes in an input of the offices and number of employees participating in this international meeting, and outputting which office to meet in -- by also taking into account carbon emissions.
How we built it
A lot of compromise and a lot of googling -- we spitballed a lot of ideas
Challenges we ran into
These are the challenges we overcame We ran into huge issues with the server platform provided where it took an extremely long time to participate set up and retrieve our flight data. Tons of file conflicts with GitHub when pushing, which taught us how to effectively section off which files different teammates would work on. It also taught us how to use google to get out of a problem. Organizational issues which were overcome through team-building exercises such as common frustration with Git to name a few.
Accomplishments that we're proud of and what we learned
Our team has learned how to be far more resilient, especially when most demonstrators left in the evening. We've also become far more comfortable with how to use GitHub and git as a whole. Our understanding of building websites definitely built up as we taught ourselves how to create a project that could use multiple programming languages together.
Now, our website is a clean and easy to understand interface between users and computing -- best exemplified by how short every visit is.
What's next for Project JAFI (work in progress)
If we had more time to work on this, we would've loved to develop an ability for people to meet up in a common city outside of where offices already exist. We would also have liked to create additional transportation routes, to and from airports, as well as cost estimator for companies to use.
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