Project Title 1: Online Document Editor Local Users: students Score Useful to others: very Has specific users: yes Can be scaled up to PC product: yes Divisible: yes In C++ on Suns: yes Overall: Seems like a good idea. The basic idea is that each user can have an account with our site. It basically acts like any word processor, like Microsoft Word, for example, but it's online. This way, the user can do their work from any computer as long as it has an internet connection. They can save their documents on the site, edit them, etc. Another possibility is they can save it in Word format or other formats so that if they want to they can store it on disk to work on the document on their word processor of choice. Pros: It is something that could be very useful, particularly to college students who don't have their own computers. This way, students would not have to worry about saving their work on disk and remembering to take their disks to the clusters with them. I think that there are a lot of components to this project. There is the database component, the client side component, security/authentication component, and I'm sure there are more that I can't think of at this moment. Another pro is that the project could easily be expanded to include a whole suite of online office applications, like an online Excel, Outlook, etc. Cons: One possible con I can foresee is I have no idea how to convert documents from one format to another(ie: Word format to WordPerfect, etc.). That may or may not be a problem. Another problem is that some students may not want to use the application. They may not trust doing a document online. Also, there may be problems with extremely large documents. ============================================================================= Project Title 2: Brown Student Information Service Local Users: Brown students Score Useful to others: yes Has specific users: yes Can be scaled up to PC product: maybe Divisible: yes In C++ on Suns: yes Overall: This project would be a website where Brown students could find out important information, like tuition info, registration info, etc. They could also use it to perhaps make tuition payments online and register for classes. Pros: The pros of this project are that it could be very useful to the Brown students. Having a web site where all this info could be found would be a big asset to us. It can also be expanded so that maybe students could even find out info about their meal plans; they could find out how many meal credits they had left, how many points they have, etc. Another addition could be the ability for students to find out info about their declining balance and add money to their account. Cons: The cons are I'm not sure if this project is entirely feasible. I would imagine it would be quite a pain to link the registrar office with the bursar office and also with UFS. Not only that, I have no idea how each of those entities are run, so it would probably be difficult to create a system that links all these things. =============================================================================- Project Title 3: Brown March Madness Betting Service Local Users: Brown population Score Useful to others: yes Has specific users: yes Can be scaled up to PC product: yes Divisible: yes In C++ on Suns: yes Overall: This project would be an online sports betting site for Brown students to bet on the NCAA Basketball Tournament. It would allow students to enter a pool for predicting the tournament winner. It would also allow students to bet on individual games in the tournamnet. Each student would have his/her own account containing all their info, such as current bets they have placed, betting history, and maybe we could make it so that each student would have an account balance, so that when they win or lose a bet, the money would be credited or debited from their account. Pros: This could be a fun application for Brown students. Many people participate in NCAA Tourney pools, and it is always fun when you can enter a huge pool. Not only that, it has added interest because it allows students to bet on individual games, too. It is also expandable. It could be expanded to include NFL betting, or NHL or NBA. It could become an online sports betting site. There are also different components to it, so it is easily divisible. Cons: The cons are that it would only be useful during March, when the NCAA Basketball Tournament takes place, until it was expanded. Also, I'm not sure if it would be legal, since I have no idea what the gambling laws are and how they apply to the internet.