Minutes 4/17/20
Date: April 17th, 2020
 Time: 7PM – 9PM

• Attendance: Everyone

• Agenda: Discuss our project in further detail

• Accomplishment: We created the vision statement for our application as well as started to discuss the UI mockup and the overall design of the project.

Minutes 4/1/2020

Date: 4/1/2020
Time: 8:30pm
Place of meeting: Zoom
Duration: 2 hours
Attendance: Everyone
Milestones established:
Decided to create a Stop & swap
Worked on  website

Discussed how the project will be executed for the remainder of the semester.

A brief mission statement:

Stony Brook’s Stop and Swap will be a portal where students can offer services, and receive services in return. As college students, we are each other’s biggest resources. More than often students possess skills such as, hair stylists, nail technicians, or simply Chem geniuses. This portal will give students the ability to exchange a service, such as a hair cut, for tutoring or any other service the student would need. Whatever a student needs they can either post an item or services and search to see if it’s available for swap.

Future Research:

Create a survey: asking students about services that students would like to see on the platform as well as services that they can offer. (data received should be from at least 20 students)

General Survey & Service Survey

Discussed the final platforms of the project (app or website)
Leaning more toward an app

Layout→
Login page
Sign up page
Looked at wireflow on the class page to see how we would go about laying out the design of the app

Tuesday March 5, 2020 Minutes

Groups on Campus

• Men of Color Group
• Women of Color Group
• New Hope Mental Counsel Services

Direction in ways we could help groups

• Planning on meeting with them them first 
• If we created a website maybe expand out larger than these 2 groups
• Drafting email to the Men of Color and Women of color group 
• Sent email to both organizations and sent.
• Set up possible times that 1 or all of us can be there

Plans before next meeting

• Set meeting with people of both organizations separately. 
• Talk to them about what ways we can assist 
• What do they feel like they are achieving? 
• Where they feel like they can grow
• How can we help them reach their goals/ expand?

Email to Men/Women of color group 

Hello     , 

My name is Emmanuel Pointdujour and I am a student here at Stony Brook. I am currently enrolled in a class called Est 339 Benevolent Computing. In this class we are tasked to develop a product that aids an organization in its efforts to provide services to marginalized groups on campus. My group and I would like to set up a meeting with you at your earliest convenience where we can discuss how we can help your initiative grow. Would we be able to meet before the Men of Color group meeting on Tuesday? 

Best,

Emmanuel Pointdujour

Meeting Attendance: Emmanuel, Nadifa, Melanie, Joshua
Location: SAC eating area
Time: 3pm – 5pm
New Project Proposal

Section 1: Project Information

• Former Make a wish group 
• Project Title- TBD
• Project Summary
  • A centralized location where businesses can promote their products and services. A Project Contacts (any individuals involved in the project)

Section 2: Project Summary

• Why are you doing this project?
  • To promote community building on this campus and give young entrepreneurs a platform to showcase their products and services. 
• What will you be doing?
  • Creating an app that hosts the information of various businesses. Users can browse the app to see all of the services offered. Then they can contact the specific person that can fulfill the task they need.
• How will you be doing it?
  • We will be using Filemaker to create the app.
• Here, it is critical to explain the current state of the problem and why your audience should care about solving it. Make sure to include references and statistics in this section. 
  • There are many student run businesses on this campus, however it can be very difficult to find these services. This is especially difficult if you are a freshman or transfer student. By having everything on one interface, it will open the door for students to find a solution to whatever they need and simultaneously provide a larger audience for business owners to reach. This is a product the Stony Brook community is asking for. When bringing this up with our peers they all wish this app was a real thing. 

Section 3: Project Methodology

• 1. Finding at least 7 businesses to host on the app 
• 2. Prototyping the app 
  • Making categories for each business
  • Providing contact information 
  • Optional section to book an appointment
  • Place an order for a product
  • Review section for customers
• 3. Testing the app
  •  Allows some students to use what we create and gather feedback 
• 4. Give the app to the stony brook community

“When calculating the impact of Benevolent Computing on both the students and the outside community, a complicated formula need not be used. You need only to hear the enthusiasm in the students’ voices as they describe their projects and the appreciation expressed by their clients.” – Computing for Social Good by Christine Cesaria