Who You Calling A Jesse?

“A moderated forum for members of the University of Waterloo community to discuss post-secondary affairs and campus issues” is now live. It is a sort of letters to the editor meets a blog thing and will hopefully be the place where some good opinions are posted (good or bad) from students, staff, and faculty. It is hardly an earth shattering web application but it does mark a positive move on the part of the university and I am glad to have had some role to play in that.

Last term we started building an application that would act as a letters to the editor replacement for the old campus newspaper the Gazette. We got a working app done fairly quickly but it sat around for a while as people had other things on the go (the 50th Anniversary build up put off a lot of projects). We sat down a few weeks ago and pulled together the final parts and now it has the support of the top admin at the university.

It is a Ruby on Rails app that was started last term by Sasha Papo. Catherine finished it off nicely but we know there might be a few odd things going on. If you notice anything, let me know. Big thanks to the co-op students who worked on it.

Update: yes I forgot to link to UW Opinion, I fixed that ;)