2025-02-11 Meeting notes

Welcome and Intro

• Decided Star Rating to be feature request

  • Want to be Lighter Purple

• Participants

  • Obina - Engineering

  • Nishil - Engineering

  • Barkat - Engineering

  • George - Engineering

  • Jay - Engineering

  • Kutsal - Engineering

  • Hiba - Design

  • Sriraam - Engineering

  • Rohan - Design

  • Hirunya - Design

  • Raaif - Engineering

  • Nikhil - Engineering

  • Taadvik - Engineering

  • Earl - Engineering

  • Ridhaam - Engineering

  • Emma - Engineering

  • Ruhi - Design

  • Mohit - Engineering

  • Rithwik - Engineering

  • Sally - Design

  • Amulya - Engineering

  • Pranav - Engineering

  • Daniel - Engineering

  • Isaac - Engineering

  • Rohan - Engineering

  • Saashank - Engineering

What is Trends//Nebula Labs Mission

• Explanation about each of the projects

• Looking for new project ideas

• Interdisciplinary

• Expectations

  • No work will be done in the meeting, everyone gets to put in their input

  • Outside of meeting, Work on issues

Ongoing Tasks

• Newer engineers to take some older issues and fix bugs.

• Remove people off issues that haven’t been worked on in a month.

New

• Mobile UI

• Search Engine Optimization

  • Get high up in google search results

• Bookmarks to see courses saved

• Schedule Planner

• Machine Learning Aspect

  • People want comments on Trends

  • Sentiment analysis with pros and cons in Trends after tags

  • Train model, if there is not a free one, and call every time there’s a search.

  • Course Syllabus

    • Incorporate as much data sources as possible

    • Incorporate Grade weights for

  • Drop old professors that haven’t taught since 2017

  • Indicate new professors because there is no data.

  • Mismatches in alias for professors

    • Example: Vincent Ng

  • Designer: Increase Branding

    • Nebula Labs Logo

  • More Marketing

    • Doesn’t have to be marketing

  • Smaller Features

    • Line Graph

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    • Card for new features in Trends

    • Indicate who will be teaching new courses

    • Autofill

    • Similar Courses

• Priorities:

  • Schedule Planner before March 31st in time for release of fall courses

    • Will be talked about later

  • Search Engine Optimization Done before beginning of March

Continuing Discussions

• Mascot for Trends: Owl

• Increase Space for mobile app

• Discussion for Tutorial next week!

• Mobile

  • Navbar

    • Have Navbar on bottom.

  • Professor Course and Name across the top of the tab (Mockup Needed)

  • Grade Distribution

    • Vertical Graph so that bars are thicker and more readable (Mockup Needed)

Roadmap for the future