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[utterances-bot]

01: Project idea - DHBW Experts

In our first content-related blog entry we will present our project idea. As you may have already noticed, our project is called “DHBW-Experts”. The very basic idea is to create an easy way for students to find experts concerning a specific subject. We want to create an app, which will enable our users to create a profile, where one can link any certain topic, they are an Expert in. This will be possible by adding hashtags (e.g., #C++ or #BWL, although you can add non-DHBW-related tags like #LaTeX or #Tax too) alongside their DHBW-related personal information to their student profile. These tags can be searched by anyone needing help, creating an expertise-database. Nowadays, almost every smartphone can scan NFC

https://dhbw-experts.github.io/blog/01-Project-Idea/

[SE-DueTo]

Hey,

we enjoyed reading your blog article and your idea is very interresting.

While reading the article, we had some questions.

• Is there a planned way of describing the level of knowledge you have concerning the specific skills, like a level-system (e.g. beginner, intermediate, pro)? Because sometimes even the help of a beginner could be enough if you are stuck at a point of time.
• Are there any proofs of skills you type in, or can you just enter e.g. "I am a pro in Assembler" and know exactly nothing?
• A minor thing: Why should LaTeX not be DHBW-related? we had a course discussing on that specifically.

Some technical questions:

• Have you ever tried reading from the DHBW-card? Do you know if there is any usefull information stored in plain text? Maybe there is some kind of encrypting service used or information is retreived from some server.
• Have you thought about future-proofing your system? If the DHBW changes their system or cards, would your system still work?

Overall we like your idea and we are looking forward to hear from you in the future.

Regards, your DueTo-team

[Ralph-1006]

Hey,

first of all, thanks for your feedback.

• We think that a level system would be a good extension of our core functionality.
• In terms of proofing a certain skill we could implement a system where other users can verify that you have a certain skill. You could then see how many users have verfied a certain skill of a user.
• You are right that latex is a DHBW related skill, therefore we will change this to #csgo :)
• We have scanned the ID using an NFC-Scanning app and we are able to read the unique ID from the card.
• In terms of future-proofing, it shouldn't be a big problem to adapt our data models and Database.