From what I have been hearing, one of the most important wishes for RADAR is the ability to browse/search images of students in order to confirm identity and, then, to attach student images to Incident Reports. Additionally, it would be nice--though I have not heard this from ResLife--to be able to attach pictures to Maintenance Reports or pictures of damage to Incident Reports.
In the spirit of decoupling as much as possible from SMU infrastructure, I want to suggest the team look into something like Gallery. Gallery is an open-source image server that provides a RESTful API. It appears quite easy to use and a cinch to install.
I mention Gallery because a CS394 student (Owen Kuemerle) will be using it to support the Android application he will be writing for the course. He has a server installed already and has some familiarity with the API. I think there is a chance for some synergy here. Owen is open to cooperation.
Yes, eventually, we would have to ingest images from SMU photo gallery, but we can figure that out when the time comes. And, if we are serious about thinking beyond SMU, we have to solve the problem of "populating RADAR database" anyway.
Please talk about this as a group.
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