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Proposer

Hani Ragab

Title

The next communication tool for Academia

Goal

Design and implement a communication tool for academic purposes

Description

While existing communications tools such as Microsoft tools, Collaborate and Zoom can be used to carry-out Academic-related tasks such as teaching, supervision meetings and academic boards, they all present some limitations and/or constraints. These include price & license limitations, privacy issues and inability to personalise to local context. This project aims to create, from FOSS, an alternative to the above tools that can be used by academic institutions. Furthermore, Covid-19 has pushed several academic institutions, each with its IT infrastructure, to make a sudden move to online delivery and were struggling to find an adequate tool or at least a product they can customize by editing it. We will provide such tool. In addition to the obvious ability to establish audio and video calls, interesting features, that might require more than one student project, include: - Ability to share documents, whiteboard, entire screen with participants - Integration in organisation, e.g., active directory, Learning Management System (LMS) - Role management: presenters, attendees, moderators, breakout-manager, etc. - Creation and management of breakout rooms. - Integration in (open) calendar software. - Possibility for individual organizations to host their own instances of our software - Surprise me! By doing this project, you agree to the following: The software is to be released under the GNU Affero General Public License (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html). Changes to the choice of the license must be agreed by Dr. Hani Ragab Hassen.

Resources

Background

Url

Difficulty Level

Challenging

Ethical Approval

None

Number Of Students

3

Supervisor

Hani Ragab

Keywords

Degrees