 Capstone Project : Team #6  October 4 th,2007

2 Team Information  Instructor : Dr. Kwok-Bun Yue  Mentors : Dr. Kwok-Bun Yue Mr. Dilhar De Silva  Team members : Shital Parikh Sandeep Chavva Pareddy Karunakar Reddy Srividya Subbiah

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall Table of Contents Development Team Shital Problem AnalysisShital Project SpecificationVidya Project AbstractVidya Design & Implementation Constraints Vidya Functionality of future systemReddy Use case DiagramReddy Project Time LineReddy Prototype DesignSandeep Team ProgressSandeep Expected DeliverablesSandeep Activities AheadSandeep ConclusionSandeep

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall Development Team  Team Leader : Shital  Webmaster : Karunakar  Programmer : Karunakar, Sandeep, Shital & Vidya  Technical Writer : Karunakar, Sandeep, Shital & Vidya  Architecture Designer : Sandeep, Shital &Vidya  DBA : Karunakar, Sandeep, Shital & Vidya

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall Problem Analysis  Shortcomings of the current website Lacks organized structure Has redundant links Information accessible to the public

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall Problem Analysis (Conti..)  Important functionalities of the existing website: Time standards Meet and event Calendar Practice Schedule Form for registering into the team

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall Problem Analysis (Conti..)  Meet and Event Schedule - Things to improve Not frequently updated No time and location No contact information Not clear for a new or general user  Practice Schedule Not show for a year Information is not clear

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall Problem Analysis (Conti..)  Current website was built traditionally with HTML editors  Website has limited capability and contents  Difficult to navigate and maintain

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall Project Specification  The project aims to replace the existing website using Joomlawww.goscat.com  Joomla is a popular open source content management software (CMS)  Advantage of CMS : Collaborative creation of website

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall Project Specification (Conti..)  Anatomy of CMS Content Creation Content Management Publishing Presentation  About Joomla Based on PHP Similar to Mambo

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall Project Specification (Conti..)  Design and Layout are using XHTML and CSS  Apart from the installation, they have a variety of extensions  Easy to Installation and maintain  Collaboration  incorporation of social networking features

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall Project Abstract  New website will incorporate details of the old website and include the social networking features.  Our project ends into two research papers : First paper – Is it desirable to build a social networking site as a team project in CS/CIS education? Second paper – How to build a domain specific social Networking site using CMS?

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall Design and Implementation Constraints  Joomla Stable version  Apache 1.3  MySQL  PHP

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall Functionality of the Future System  The website will have the following functionalities : Users to create account Rate contents Upload Videos and pictures To have blog and chat sessions RSS based news feeds Google maps for swim meet directions

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall Use case Diagram Executive/Manager/ Administrator View Specific Swimmer’s Profile Check In/Out Public/Guest View/download all Videos/Pictures Maintain template design, Global configuration Add New Articles Read Messages, Mass Mail Subscribe/Login View Event Schedules, Meet Entry Calendar View Contact Information /Map to pools Version Control Rate Contents FAQs

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall Use case Diagram (Conti..) Login/ Logout Swimmers View News Feeds/ Event Schedules, Meet Entry Calendar Rate contents Post to Blogs View / Upload Pictures/Videos View Nutrition articles/ Health Issues View Swimmers News Role of Parents Benefits of Swimming Child’s training Parents FAQs

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall Use Case Diagram (Conti..) Login/ Logout View /Upload Pictures/Videos Post to Blogs Rate Contents View Event Schedules, Meet Entry Calendar View Nutrition articles/ Health Issues View Coach Requirements View Coach News View Coach Information View Olympic Related articles View Sports Medicine Coaches Board Members

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall Project TimeLine

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall Prototype Design

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall

Prototype Design CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall

Prototype Design CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall Team Progress  Requirement analysis have been completed  Use case diagram have been completed  Installation is complete  Initial prototype of the future system has been designed

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall Expected Deliverables  Phase 1 UML 2.0 Analysis model using Visio and Prototype  Phase 2 UML 2.0 Design model using Visio and beta version of the virtual community software  Phase 3 UML 2.0 Sequence Diagram and General Availability version of the Virtual community software

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall Activities Ahead  Currently we are implementing the website on the local host, after this we will do it in a hosted site  Initial prototype will be improved  Remaining features and functionalities will be incorporated  Content and capabilities of the website will be improved

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall Conclusion  Hence the future website developed using CMS will be: Easy to maintain Powerful Functional Flexible

CSCI 6838 Team #6 - Fall References 1.Bartz, Tonia, User Customization: Utilizing Content Management Systems to Efficiently Organize User Group Content, Summer Websites: