Question

What happened of hackathon? No updates yet, it has been over than a month... Is that program cancelled?

Please let us know about it.

Answer 1

@Preetha Mam!

Answer 2

Yupp I agree @Preetha OS needs to start innovating and moving forward, whether it is by a hackathon or NEW admins that will change OS it needs to be soon. OS can't wait another year for this.

Answer 3

yes i love OS, and I would really like to see it grow. It is already great, but there is always room for improvement. Change would be very nice to see around here, and as soon as the details could be provided, I would do everything I can (not that there is much to do tho) to help with the process :) @Preetha

Answer 4

OpenStudy is a world class site that enables students to learn like never before, it enables us to teach students in ways that they find "fun" and interactive, ways that get to students and help them learn, this is essentially as @Preetha has stated, the cure to "The Silent Epidemic". It's a website that could do so much more on a large scale, schools provide the curriculum but we provide the nest in which these failing students can learn, prosper, and achieve something in their life's, but with what we have now we are only servicing a handful of what we could do, we have the cure Preetha, but do we have means to distribute this cure? Without prepping our servers for more we cannot possibly service anyone. SO here is my 5 point plan:

1.) Upgrade OS
i.) Upgrade servers.
ii.) Design new UI that is fast, fluid, modern, sleek, and User friendly.
iii.) Design new "Back end", get the server prepped with code that can handle.
iiii.) Fix bugs, add new features, and make it reliable and fast.
iiiii.) Add a tutorial like twitter does for new users

2.) Self Sustaining
i.) Add more ads but in areas tat don't disturb.
ii.) Add more features for subscription so users actually subscribe.
iii.) Get another seed funding for this.*

3.) Rebuild Our Family
i.) Get new developers as admins (ones that are going to be upgrading OS)
ii.) Get new admins (Marketing directors, community managers, development, etc)
iii.) Qualify new mods, (If we are to grow we need more than a handful of mods)
iiii.) Get more ambassadors (We will need more to greet the oncoming masses)

4.) New Ranking System
i.) Tweak SS bugs and enhance it (But still leave the SS system up)
ii.) New badge or merit system (First question asked, first person helped, etc...)^
iii.) Add more ranks (Rookie, lifesaver, etc...)
iiii.) Add more colors than the simple 5 tier level (Orange, light orange, etc...)²

5.) Get The Clientele
i.) Use some money to Advertise.
ii.) Get schools to allow students to put up flyers around campus.
iii.) Get users to invite friends onto OS. ³
iiii.) Use FB and Twitter to grow our popularity †

*Get another kickstart seed fund to make this a reality. ^Just to show achievements and entice new users to stay and achieve new goals. ²Just add more colors than the existing 5 (Orange, light orange, gold, light green, green). ³Give users some sort of reward or merit/badge for inviting more users and maybe have a contest each month to see who can do the most invites. †Give users incentives for liking our page and recommending it to friends. Also use the page more often and post new things.

Well there you have it, my 5 point plan, hope you like it and I am always ready to debate it and add on to it. But Preetha, none of this can be done without putting full focus onto this. And most importantly, if we don't get another seed fund, it's never going to happen, a hackathon can only do so much, it cannot do everything described up there. But now is the time to do this, not next month, not next year, not when the finals are coming, NOW is the time. We cannot spend another year with a deteriorating site.

Answer 5

If we are to do this we would also have to control our cheating, if we do this we will demonstrate to every school out there that we are a website that is here to HELP students, not one to help them cheat! SO let's get together and start this now!

Answer 6

@dumbsearch2 @some_someone @thomaster @mathslover @karatechopper @e.mccormick @Microrobot

Care to elaborate?

Answer 7

We need some Miracle Gro for OpenStudy.

Answer 8

^

Answer 9

Nothing to elaborate about, it's hard to program something without a programmer to do it. Or at least to assign permissions for other people to edit it.

Answer 10

I like your proposition @JA1 :)
Now we need action.

Answer 11

@dumbsearch2 Point 3 subsection i.