Messenging Service and Directory for University of Texas at Austin Students. UT Messenger scrapes student profiles off UT Austin's web portal, to provide a messenging and directory service. This enables students to search and communicate with other students. The application is intended to be run primarily as a mobile application and has with a Spring/Hibernate/MySQL backend.
- Every client has a hidden conversation with SYSTEM, that is used to send notifications to users directly to their mobile devices.
- Cheap/easy way to do push notifications
- As easy as sending a message to clients
- Alert them of updates/campus alerts/urgent information
- Conversation should be impossible to delete
- Searchable UT Directory
- Find people by name/eid/email/phone
- Be able to find people's contact information (if they make it public)
- Immediately know people's rooms/email/phone
- Add in way to message people in your residence hall/your floor/your classes
- Kind of like a forum