Milestone 1 Presentation

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• Title slide - containing name of project, team members, date, etc.

• Gender Center

  • Seeks to educate and inform
  • "...Developing awareness of gender constructs and facilitating change through education and advocacy"
  • Use Women's Caucus, word-of-mouth, and mailing lists to disseminate information
  • Point of contact: Michelle Leaman

• The Problem

  • Data needs

    • Local events of interest
    • Names/addresses of speakers and other contacts
    • Cataloging paper resources

  • Communication needs

    • Disseminating info

• Objectives

  • Have a publicly accessible calendar of events to which people can add items of interest without going through a middle-person
  • Quickly recall contacts and phone conversations
  • Easily search the contents of their research library

• Scope

  • Three types of data to manage...

    • Event descriptions
    • Contacts
    • Library resources

  • Web pages to access each of these data types; including...

    • Search pages for contacts and library resources
    • Calendar display of events

• Constraints

  • Web interface and database to be hosted by Messiah technical services
  • Web pages to render on major browsers (MS Internet Explorer 5+, Netscape 6+)

• Strategy

  • Follow M1 and M2 per the syllabus
  • M3 - Calendar application
  • M4 - Contacts applications
  • M5 - Resource search application
  • M6 - Turnover & Documentation

• Current Status

  • Requirements research is underway
  • Organization is excited about our work