This Pandemic has affected a lot of people, especially students. We believe in the power of the community. Keeping that in mind, we have built this social media platform for people to:
Share their stories during Quarantine time, helping the community by making them aware of the opportunities available (both during and after lockdown) that they might not be aware of.
Open-source the projects that they have worked on, be it at Hackathons, School projects, etc. so that other students can collaborate & learn in addition to helping the project grow. This will increase community engagement among students and promote the open source culture.
We're going to implement a social media website/ app for people to share their open source projects, or any other activities they are doing during this quarantine time.
Features
We'll implement these features for our app:
Log-in to personal account:
Users log in with their email address and password to their account using Firebase
Newsfeed page: where people post/ share what they are working on
For open source projects, can design a template for people to use (e.g: technologies they use, any help they need, etc.) using React JSON Schema
Besides open source, people can post pictures and share about other non-tech activities. For eg: "I'm practicing LeetCode and need someone to share the Premium account with."
Tag system and Trending summary:
Each post can include tags to determine which category it falls into.
Depending on the tags, can create a nice summary of data using "React JSON Schema"
Chat feature:
A basic messaging function for users to connect with each other
Purpose: In this quarantine time, millions of people all over the world are in lockdown and staying in their homes. A lot of them are working on awesome open-source projects, but might not have a way to share their progress or receive help from others. Thus, "Quarantime" is a social media platform for people to share their projects, connect with other developers, and make opportunities available to the community.
2. Introduce the Team:
Kunal: Sophore (becoming Junior) studying Computer Science and Engineering in India. Open Source enthusiast, community guy ☀️
Aniketh: Final year undergraduate student studying Computer Science Engineering at Karunya University
Saphal: Final year undergraduate student studying Electronics and Communication Engineering at Delhi Technological University
Jessie: junior studying CS at University of Rochester, currently in Vietnam
This Pandemic has affected a lot of people, especially students. We believe in the power of the community.
We have focussed on 2 aspects here for students:
Lack of awareness regarding opportunities
Finding it difficult to get started with Open Source
We understand that it gets overwhelming to get started with open source for a beginner. Most of the students don't get the right guidance during their school/college years. They are unaware of the opportunities available.
Students don't have yet a fun social media platform where they can post about what they are working on and share opportunities before and after the lockdown.
Also don't have a way to find what's trending in the open-source community (technologies, platforms, etc.)
Students might also wanna have a group chat to discuss with each other about a project, etc.
Share their stories during Quarantine time, helping the community by making them aware of the opportunities available (both during and after lockdown) that they might not be aware of.
Open-source the projects that they have worked on, be it at Hackathons, School projects, etc. so that other students can collaborate & learn in addition to helping the project grow. This will increase community engagement among students and promote the open source culture.