Chutney
A Project Inventory for a Smart Campus
Aim
To design an interactive tool to realise socially valuable information goals for a broad range of people.
To help order and structure the world around us, making it easier to understand and remember.
To help order and structure the world around us, making it easier to understand and remember.
What is Chutney?
A web based application what allows a campus full of bright ideas and initiatives to come together, borrow and learn from each other. Participants can add their own projects (raw ideas, work-in-process products and finished goods) or browse through other's projects. Each project includes description, tracks status, and links to further resources.
Two key features of the portal are - Challenges and Linking.
Challenges
Two key features of the portal are - Challenges and Linking.
Challenges
If anyone needs help with their project, they can mark it as a challenge. To be a challenge, it must have a specific problem statement, or a call for help. It may include a deadline.
Linking
Linking
All posts can be linked to other posts that might be related, or that a user thinks could solve a specific problem relevant to the current project. Some posts are auto linked (using content and tags) while others can be linked by users.
Chutney walkthrough. You can try a preliminary prototype here.
Though initially designed specifically for the IIT Bombay fraternity, it has been realised through due course of time, and reviewer feedback that the same application could be expanded for use beyond the campus.
