Search for empty classrooms

[npaun]

Problem:

• You need a space to study, and all of McGill's study space sucks.
• You'd like to just grab some random classroom, but you don't know which will be empty.

Solution:

• The Minerva client could have a static dataset of scheduled courses (generated from the dynamic schedule), and allow you to query it for which classrooms are empty now.
• The set of all classrooms shall be defined as the set of classrooms which have at least 1 course in them, and the set of empty classrooms shall be the set of classrooms which don't have a class in them at a certain time.

Potential Issues:

• Classes can move around, rooms can be booked, etc.
• The door might be locked.
• McGill probably tries to keep utilization as high as possible. Not sure how many empty rooms could be found.

[npaun]

• We could also try to guess the access control policy (hours of operation, authorized users) from a gigantic excel spreadsheet McGill publishes.