Meeting Minutes December 3
Demonstration
- Photos work!
- App demonstration was a success
- Spoke with Professor Taflanidis
- Don't hesitate to contact him: a.taflanidis@nd.edu
What are we doing and why?
- Trying to get Haiti to build a different way
- In the US we have codes
- In Haiti, there are not enough engineers to do evaluations.
- Now, we want to get non technical people to be able to do the same survey as trained professionals
- That way, we can do evaluations here, and send back the information without needing localized professionals
- Hopefully, we can convince them to change their building practices
- 300,000 lives lost in 30 seconds. 99.99% was caused by poor construction
- They were doing what they could afford to do, can we convince them to change?
- 99% of the buildings on Haiti are built with practices you would never see in our country
- Our mission is to convince them to rebuild in a different way
- So when the next earthquake arrives, there will not be nearly as much devastation
Deliverable for this class
- Draft form submitted by next Friday (December 7)
- Will get feedback and work on it up until last day of finals (December 14)
- Papers that we are all working on
- Sophomores write up a "Personal Statement" (December 14)
- Sophomores also document the backend database and the php code that takes data from the app, puts it in the database, and displays the data (Draft December 7, final December 14) ->get this to Aaron after we finish it
- Matt - Paper on the android App, and make sure to include screenshots for future developers
- Chas/Jonathan/Henry - Red Cross Database Uber paper