Regroop project presentation

1. regroop
Mircea, Vlad, Bogdan, Vlad & Adrian
«Alexandru Ioan Cuza» University of Iaşi
Faculty of Computer Science

2. Many people

3. Many people
have a great potential
have a great amount of time
have a great world to improve

4. Many people
have a great potential
have a great amount of time
have a great world to improve
do unproductive activities
waste their time by playing
live mainly in a virtual world

5. Meanwhile…
How to get them solved?
Real problems occur outside «Farmville»

6. Meanwhile…
By helping people to achieve the
«8 UN Millennium Development Goals»

7. Meanwhile…
By helping people to achieve the
«8 UN Millennium Development Goals»
What about people who live in
?

8. Active people
Many people waste their time
How to get them involved?

9. Active people
want to change the world
have great ideas to make it better
want to organize groops to get there

10. Active people
want to change the world
have great ideas to make it better
want to organize groops to get there
need more time
need people to join them
need resources to act

11. Active people
want to change the world
have great ideas to make it better
want to organize groops to get there
need more time
need people to join them
need resources to act
How to get them on the way?

12. Many people waste their time
How to get them involved?
Active people need help
How to get them on the way?
The companies

13. The companies
want to promote themselves efficiently
want to offer resources for visibility
want to make people buy their products

14. The companies
want to promote themselves efficiently
want to offer resources for visibility
want to make people buy their products
need viral advertisement
need the resource recipients
need people to sell their products to

15. The companies
want to promote themselves efficiently
want to offer resources for visibility
want to make people buy their products
need viral advertisement
need the resource recipients
need people to sell their products to
How to get them seen?

16. Problems
Many people waste their time
How to get them involved?
Active people lack help
How to get them on the way?
Companies need market
How to get them seen?

17. Solution
Many people
get to know companies
Companies
get instant visibility
Organizers
get sponsorships
Companies
get market instantly
Many people
get involved
Organizers
are joined by others

18. Not getting involved
Vlad
AIESEC
Wants to organize
«IaŞi Reciclează»
Coca Cola
Wants to sponsor
a groop
Case study

19. How regroop works

20. The architecture

21. The architecture
Controller
Rails framework
on
View
HTML + CSS
presentation
enriched with
Model
database
for archiving,
hosting
external API
for third party
development
feed sources
etc.
map data
from
Microsoft®
Windows Azure

22. The cloud
Controller
Rails framework
on
View
HTML + CSS
presentation
enriched with
Model
database
for archiving,
hosting
external API
for third party
development
feed sources
etc.
map data
from
Microsoft®
Windows Azure
Own the baseline, rent the spike
regroop is hosted in the cloudMicrosoft®
Windows Azure

23. The elements
Maps
regroop uses Bing Maps to locate users and groops
and provide relevant info about them.
Extensibility
regroop is designed to provide
a simple-to-use API for further development.
Services
regroop employs a variety of web data sources
to aggregate and expand content.

24. The business

25. The market
The most valuable resource available to
man today is the social web.
regroop affects a large number of people,
as it is deployed globally.

26. The market
regroop is geared towards
3 types of actors.
people
organizers sponsors

27. Strategy for people
tough problem in one or more of
the 8 UN Millennium Goals
many people know
how to cope with it
many people fail
to come together
and get to solve it
problem can be
traced to a problem
affecting the community
problem
still there

28. Strategy for people
tough problem in one or more of
the 8 UN Millennium Goals
many people know
how to cope with it
many people fail
to come together
and get to solve it
problem can be
traced to a problem
affecting the community
people find how
to get involved
right from their
environment

29. Strategy for people
tough problem in one or more of
the 8 UN Millennium Goals
many people know
how to cope with it
many people fail
to come together
and get to solve it
problem can be
traced to a problem
affecting the community
people find how
to get involved
right from their
environment

30. Strategy for people
tough problem in one or more of
the 8 UN Millennium Goals
many people know
how to cope with it
people unite
to solve the
problem together
problem can be
traced to a problem
affecting the community
people find how
to get involved
right from their
environment

31. Strategy for people
tough problem in one or more of
the 8 UN Millennium Goals
people use
their know-how and
solve the problem
people unite
to solve the
problem together
problem can be
traced to a problem
affecting the community
people find how
to get involved
right from their
environment

32. Strategy for people
tough problem in one or more of
the 8 UN Millennium Goals
people use
their know-how and
solve the problem
people unite
to solve the
problem together
problem solved by
community members
people find how
to get involved
right from their
environment

33. Strategy for people
tough problem solved, in a
partnership for development
people use
their know-how and
solve the problem
people unite
to solve the
problem together
problem solved by
community members
people find how
to get involved
right from their
environment
social
web
real life

34. Strategy for sponsors
company
in for visibility
startups
can make their debut
viral marketing
advertising on a mature market
corporations
earn a broad, yet targeted visibility

35. get a cut
from large sponsorships
share ad revenues
with organizers
full branding
based on individual agreements
Strategy for regroop
regroop

36. Conclusion
Old social web
personal interests
New social web
common interests

37. Thank you

38. regroop