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Purpose
Corral is a student project for the California State University, Long Beach, Senior Computer Science course, CECS 491A in the Fall of 2014. The course is taught by Professor Mike Boctor.
Introduction
With growing social networks, it becomes tedious to get on the same page as your friends when they are from all walks of life. Although you may have it in the back of your head when a friend may be free, you might not actually know if that person is available. Once you start pestering them with phone calls, text messages, and emails; it is hard to distinguish whether you are trying to hangout or have an emergency. If you start calling them when they are in a lecture or an important interview, you can embarrass them or even cost them a job. To avoid this confusion and cluttering each other’s calendars, Corral (cor·ral) will help people get together at anytime with less hassle.
Goals
Corral will attempt to solve these problems by consolidating user’s and their friends’ calendars, thus finding the most appropriate time that everyone is free. Without having to re-enter individual events, Corral connects with Facebook and Google Calendar’s, eliminating the need to maintain yet another calendar. By comparing the users’ schedule and their friends’ schedule, Corral can then inform the user if their friends are available at this moment in time or find out when their friends are available in the future. Along with this, Corral will also let users specify groups of friends, share if they are free via Facebook and Twitter, and notifying friends within Corral if they would like to get together.
Team Members
- Alex Bu
- Nicholas Gallo
- Joaquin Gonzalez
- Nicholas Kwong
- Israel Torres
- Gyngai Ung
- Brandon Whitney