Re-evaluate Charter

Thursday 01.16.14
1. Business goals:

• develop a loyal user base
• maintain a quality product
• listen to suggestions and improve product as necessary

How to facilitate business:

• promote/advertise within Ohio State
• reach out to advisors to have them promote it as a good mentorship program
• maintain credibility and control over product

2. Website Goals:

• Produce successful matches
• Maintain speed
• Have great interface and easy navigation

3. User Tasks

• create profile
• establish needs
• be matched with a user that matches needs
• be guided as to how to transfer meeting to real life

cost: free (revenue can be generated through advertisements and local business promotions) OR users can chip in money from their buckIDs to the website to pay for the site if valuable premium features arise ( <= $5)

4. Differentiators

• unlike dating sites, our site will provide a means of facilitating academic/ professional connections
• unlike professional connections sites like linkedIn, the user has the ability to meet people that they don't already know
• unlike matching sites, our site will be limited to users within the school, creating relative safety and credibility 

5. Audience/ Behavior

• students attending OSU 
• students with meal plans and students with valuable experience without meal plans
• the meal-plan user would approach our site in order to meet other students with similar interests or potential interests in order to gain knowledge and first-hand experience about the subject.
• the non-meal-plan user would approach our site in order to potentially gain free food.

/////////////NOTES ON DISCUSSION IN CLASS ABOUT SITE SPECIFICS////////////////////////////////////
1. services, cost, users
Users:
log in with OSU username

Services:
custom profile with specified categories of interest
-matching algorithm
-OKCupid screening questions?
-personal messages to inbox to set up time
-search to find people of who can give you info you are looking for?
OR
-post to general wall and have people check in?
-post to general wall and have it be searchable

Profile:
major, current year, clubs, academic activities, optional GPA, classes taken, languages spoken