opensource-iitgn / insiit

Official Students App for IITGN!

InsIIT - IITGn's Official Institute App

You've stumbled across the official FOSS repository of IITGn's Institute App! This project is in its infant stages, and all contributions in any form are welcome :)

This is the official discord server for insIIT Developers Community: insIIT Developers Community

Motivation

Kicked off via HackRush 2019, this project was brought to life with a vision to create a one-stop-serves-all platform for all members of the community. The project incorporates several aspects of the campus, and deeply integrates into services that we use daily. Our vision is to see this project becoming a one-of-a-kind open source project that allows students to up-skill themselves while contributing to something that everyone on campus uses!

This project is the successor to GNius - the first students mobile app for android.

Screenshots

Tech/framework used

• Frontend - Flutter
• Backend - Node.js (Deployed on IITGN Servers) + MongoDb (Atlas), Google Sheets, FireBase

Features

Stable Release

• Mess Menu
  • View daily Menu
  • Send instant feedback on items (Upvote/Downvote), or a more detailed review.
• Daily schedule
  • Courses are automatically updated depending on the semester with unenroll/enroll option
  • Exams are automatically added during midsem/endsem
  • Calendar events will be shown as well.
• Bus
  • Set reminders for bus you want to catch
  • View Bus routes

Beta Release

• News feed of announcements/events

Alpha Release (In-progress/todo - Contributions welcome!)

• Integration of room booking system

  • Tinkerers Lab
    • Automatic allotment of 3D printers/laser cutters
  • Academic Block booking

• Integration of Bus service with live GPS info of buses (project under IBP, IR&P council)

• Integration with Events API of IITGn

• Integration with Stumble

APIs

A large part of this project runs off the Google Sheet API due to its ease of being modified without any technical knowledge whatsoever, along with full securty.

Team InsIIT

We would love to have you onboard! Do submit a pull request if you would like to contribute to a feature.

Praveen Venkatesh 💻🤔 📖 🎨 🚧

Gaurav Viramgami 💻 🤔 🚧

Nishikant Parmar 📖 💻 🤔 🚧

Chris Francis 💻 🤔 🎨

KritikaKumawat3108 💻 🚧

27Anurag 💻 🚧

Mentions

We would like to thank Shantanu Jana (Class of '21), Jainam Shah (Class of '21), Shreyas Singh (Class of '20), Animesh Rastogi (Class of '20), and Rohit Patil (Class of '21) for their valuable help in securing the required logistics for the project.

insiit's Issues

Faculty office data feature

Its currently a pain to know whose office is where. A neat little feature that will make life on campus just that bit easier.

Migrate to Firebase

• Firebase realtime database is free. Why break heads over wanting to host a proper api?

Create an admin database and API endpoints that neatly organizes stuff for council members to read, update, and send notifications

Currently, google sheets is alright, but not the best way forward in the long run. Streamline the backend, and implement a better way for updating items.

COVID tracker

Feature for tracking COVID features

Number of buses plying to each destination

In the shuttle app, it will be better to add a feature that showcases the number of buses that go to each destination of this moment. Something like a live map.

Mess menu feedback - No option to choose mess

There is no option to choose which mess the feedback belongs to making it difficult to execute decisions.

Reminders for next class

Wouldn't it be nice to be reminded what class you have next ? :)

Report Bug feature

Change the report bug into creating a new issue on github that can be closed easily. Its not easy to keep track of the google sheet.

Mismatch between app and Google Sheet mess timings

Describe the bug
There is no way to dynamically update the mess menu timings on the app.

Quotes dont always show up.

Quotes dont always show up.

Grade tracker

• Create a tracking mechanism for grades and courses that helps in tracking academic performance till that point.
• Integrate with the course scheduling mechanism.
• Should be able to generate per-course graphs, and give weights for each exam in a course and define rubrics.
• If possible, integrate with google classroom based rubrics and exams. Pull marks directly from there.
• Ability to export to a spreadsheet if needed/create a backup by storing on personal drive.

Laundry reminder

• To be clubbed with collecting biodata
• Remind whenever there is a laundry day

Improving Mess Queue

Realtime updates on campus happenings.

Long mess queue - can we solve??

Splash screen logos

Add affiliation to InsIIT, hackrush and IITGN in the spash screen. If it can be done through native rendering, it will be even better!

Adding Contributors

@all-contributors-bot please add @praveenVnktsh for code, doc, design, maintenance

Documentation

Need to setup a detailed documentation page using https://www.gitbook.com/. The current organization structure of the repo is too complex for a newbie to understand.

Collect biodata during onboarding

Currently, metadata is taken at each individual feature. It makes more sense to have it all during onboarding so that the person does not have to repeatedly do stuff everytime.

Porting to iOS