Project-October

Read news that you actually want to read

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1. Project October Rajesh Cherukuri, Tom Dooner, Mika Little, Brian Stack
2. Modern News Aggregators
3. What is Project October? Use technological principles to avoid: loss of longtime members large exodus of excellent contributors influx of malicious contributors Improve the user experience Allow discourse and interesting articles from the community
4. Project Scope Split between Frontend and Backend Communicate via API Frontend: Features common objects and actions found on sites like Reddit User submitted articles or other media Backend: Hybrid recommendation engine Search Engine
5. Technical Details Frontend: Ruby on Rails Backend: Groovy Titan Tinkerpop
6. Methodology Multi-Phase Agile Development 1-week iterations ending with a release Documentation with each task, aggregated at release time Pivotal Tracker: http://pivotaltracker.com/projects/734155 Source Control Frontend: https://github.com/ted27/project-october Backend: https://github.com/rxc178/project-october-backend
7. Questions?