Completed Advance Search Profile Function
Solved the multi-attribute search issue
Create Dataset pages for search results
started initial plannings for Friends List
Designed Default image for photo album
Went thru the Project plan with Leonard

Further Problems analysis by Vyane
1.Web Hosting
Resolutions for the hosting issues, It will be the best if the school is able to sponsor or allow us to host the application in the school server. However, that is unlikely to be successful. We intend to purchase a dedicated hosting for our deployment. I had source for few hosting companies and found that the average price is $149/per year which supports ASP.NET and comes with 2 MSSQL Server DB. Results taken from (http://www.netsarius.com/web-hosting-windows.html) It also comes with a 20GB Bandwidth per month. As time goes by, if we are able to find our sponsorship the cost will be covered by it's sponsor revenue.

2.Maintenance Cost and Manpower
In estimation, Not more than 2 people is need for the code-based maintainence. And less than 24-36 hours used per week. Based on market standards, these 2 personel should be paid for est $480 a month. Additional Members will be promoted as threads moderator or adminstration groups to manage members and answer queries. These will be volunteers from the community.

3.Competitors with the same concept
Concurrently, there are no Poly having a online community as ours. We can actually bring students together in terms of learning and cohesion. It always acts as a school alumni system as well. External competitors will be Facebook and Friendster, these 2 applications are more well estashblished, however individual will have their own interest groups. For example, clubsnap.com is a photography club which have their own community. I think that if our community reach it's purpose of a hub that communicates between students, students will be loyal and stick onto this at least as a second choice for online community.

4.How to make students aware of the site
Basically it can be done by publicity. Emails will be sent, posters, mouth of word, thru OLE, teachers, etc etc.. We can even create sub-pages for CCA groups so that people will be interested to use our forum and community as their online discussion board. Students who are graduating and wished to form a community base, they can actually follow up in this website and build their own profile so that classmates can keep in contact.


-2.30am now, time to sleep..