1. Jonathan Rile Brandon Strickland Dr. Leslie Cottrell Dr. Roy Nutter

2. Problem Statement  Currently, there is not a medium that can match pairs of researchers and the community together based on common interests.

3. Goals and Objectives  Gather a sizable base of users for preliminary matching  Match users based on their interests  Create a platform for researchers and the community to come to together and work on common issues

4. Technologies and Ideas  Amazon Web Services  Ruby  Ruby on Rails  Json  SQLite3

5. System Details  Context Diagram  An example interaction with code follow through

6. Context Diagram

7. Example Of Interactions

8. User Interface  Bootstrap Formatting  Rails Generated  View dependent on what type of user you are  Color Neutral  Simple as possible

9. Home Page

10. Email Notifications

11. Messages Inbox

12. Editing your Personal Profile

13. Proposed Accomplishments  Messaging System  Scalable Database  Robust Test Suite  Trouble Ticket System  Collaboration System  User Profiles  Search Function  PDF hosting for uploading

14. Actual Accomplishments (Implementations)  Small Scale database  User Profiles  Messaging  Collaborations Scaffolding  Framework for future new User Models to be added simply by inheritance.

15. Business Potential  Since Rails is easily modified, you can use it for anything that is similar to the product we have created.  Tutoring Applications  Companies may want private versions of this tool

16. Reflections and Suggestions  Don’t impose your expectation on a framework.  TDD

17. References  http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ http://ruby.railstutorial.org/  http://www.jordangadsby.com/wp- content/uploads/2013/11/question- mark1.jpg http://www.jordangadsby.com/wp- content/uploads/2013/11/question- mark1.jpg

18. Questions?