Who You Calling A Jesse?

Let me introduce to you UW’s very own Twitter clone called UW Chatter. It’s purpose, to act as notification resource for students, staff, faculty, departments, groups, etc. Features it has now:

• post to your groups and stream
• list friends, add groups, create groups, remove groups, etc
• jabber client (uwchatter@gmail.com)
• email to SMS notifications
• email notifications

What it still needs:

• SMS gateway
• other IM clients
• stable jabber
• a production server
• UI love
• twitter API hook in
• mobile version
• a way to post to groups from jabber, right now you can just post to your own stream

About the app…. We built this with Ruby on Rails. It lives on a development box with a Mongrel cluster and mySQL in the back end. The code itself will go to Rubyforge the end of June (as will the rest of our Ruby apps).

Please give it a go, create some groups, post some notes. Try it out! If you join the bug and notes group you can post your thoughts on the app and what you would like to see. We still haven’t written a help file yet so you really need to just try it out!

I was supposed to present this today at Design Camp Waterloo but I ended up running around campus chasing my tail…