Wash U Doing
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Project Overview
Wash U Doing is a novel interactive website bringing Washington University students and student groups together. On-campus WUSTL groups will have the opportunity to create events on Wash U Doing, which students can find by easy filtering through their event needs.
Members
- Kristine Ehlinger, Systems Engineering '20
- Dylan Zubata, Systems Engineering, Economics and Strategy '20
- TA: Natalie Ng
Objectives
- Display an annotated map (from arcGIS) that shows destinations on campus including all major buildings on campus
- Display current events posted by WashU organizations
- Access the complete website from our demo laptop
- Allow visitors to filter events
Challenges
- Learn how to code using HTML
- Figure out how to encode the arcGIS into the webpage
- Learn how to create a live-feed network on our website
- Complete annotations on WUSTL campus map
- Making the website user-friendly
- Learn how to implement an interactive calendar with events color-coded by filter
Budget
- arcGIS Map = $0 (Provided by arcGIS)
- Notepad = $0 (Previously installed in computer)
- Amazon Web Services Account: $0
- Domain Name and Route 53 server (1 year ownership of the domain and data storage) = $13.14
This charge is largely based on a year's access to AWS and specific tools we access including Route 53 and the Elastic Compute Cloud. The charge breakdown includes:
Elastic Compute Cloud
*$0.005 per Elastic IP address not attached to a running instance per hour (prorated): 125 hours costs $0.63
Route 53
*$0.40 per 1,000,000 queries for the first 1 Billion queries: 623 queries costs $0.01
*$0.50 per Hosted Zone for the first 25 Hosted Zones: 1 Hosted Zone costs $0.50
Registrar
*Registration of "www.washudoing.com": $12
https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/services/
Project Budget will be updated at the end of the semester as we access more capabilities on AWS.
Gantt Chart
