project-ideas

List of ideas for the Open Source Project Team

Potential Ideas

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🔲 Messenger Bot

Messenger Bot to find different ECE resources, connect with people

Features

• Update ECEUSC website, pull master branch (council)
• Search ECE courses (everyone)
• Get in contact with mentors for certain depths/areas (everyone)  

Stack

Node (?), Redis, MongoDB, etc.

🔲 First Pass

WebApp to see previous quarter enrollment data

Features

• Given class/professor, display waitlist data from previous quarters
• Compare different professor's waitlist sizes
• CAPE data, withdraw/fail rates?

Stack

Front end - React (?), ajax, etc

Back end - Python (?), sqlite/mongodb (?)

🔲 ECE Jobs Board Analysis

Scrape jobs found at http://ece.ucsd.edu/jobs and find patterns.

Features

• Organize all job posting into a CSV file
• Find common connection between postings (skills, languages, etc)
• Classify types of jobs and experience needed
• Relate it back to ECE classes

Stack

Python (or anything) for scraping, pandas for analysis? iPython notebooks for sharing

🔲 Scan In

Simplify the process of checking people into org events

Features

• kindof this
• Way to scan id's (physical scanner, phone app, etc.)
• Pre registering for events, QR code to verify or something

Stack

Literally anything

Some type of database (mongodb, mysql, etc). HTML/CSS for front end stuff. Maybe android development? Messenger Bot too

🔲 Budget on Website

Make it easier for students clubs to show their annual budget, as well as expenditures, reimbursements, transparency, etc.

Features

• Show budget allocations/proposals made by ECE USC
• Display current ECE USC balance, spending for quarter, etc.
• Analysis of spending (price per attendee, satisfaction, etc.)

Stack

Mostly front end stuff (CSS, HTML), maybe chart.js or d3.js?

🔲 UCSD Site Generator

Simplify the process for building a static site for UCSD org's hosted on acsweb.ucsd.edu

Features

• Create a static website with a click of a button
• Make it easier for new UCSD org's to make a simple site
• Ability to configure/choose skins and themes
• Simplify the ssh process as well

Stack

• HTML/CSS/JS for frontend use (??)
• Site generator - ???

🔲 GitHub Constitution -> Online Viewing

Move ECE USC's current constitution into a GitHub repository (for easier editing, propositions), and create a way to display this on the ECE USC Site

Features

• Move the ECE USC Constituion into a GitHub repo
• With GitHub API, display that onto ECE USC Website
• Make it look pretty, simpliled language, tl:dr's

Stack

Probably javascript stuff for Github API, then frontend HTML CSS stuff??