Open Jive Regional Challenge 2009

Proposal

  
 
  * Institution / School    : Temasek Polytechnic
  * Faculty    : School of Informatics and IT
  * Name of Team    : Searths
   Country   Select One : Singapore 

Team Member 1

  * First Name    : Joel
  * Last Name    : Ng
  * Age    : 21
  * Phone  :  -
  * Mobile   : 96617338
  * Email    : 0700542D@student.tp.edu.sg

Team Member 2

  * First Name    : Yeo
  * Last Name    : Yew Boon
  * Age    : 24
  * Phone  :  -
  * Mobile   : 98357423
  * Email    : 0705134E@student.tp.edu.sg

Team Member 3

  * First Name  :  Wilson
  * Last Name   : Hery
  * Age    : 19
  * Phone  :  -
  * Mobile   : 92472598
  * Email    : 0701881E@student.tp.edu.sg

Particulars of Facilitator

  * First Name    : WANG
  * Last Name    : YANBIN DAVID
  * Designation   :  LECTURER
  * Phone    : 67806929
  * Mobile    :
  * Email    : davwang@tp.edu.sg
  
  * Team Write-up (50-100 words) (eg. Background of the team members, why did you participate in the challenge, how the team was formed, interests, hobbies etc.):    

We are basically a team that fancies Open Source technology like Java! Especially during software development, Java is definitely our first choice, where its flexibility, availability and easy deployment in any Operating Systems have won our affection. Hence, together with our keen interest and our fondness in the Open Jive 2009 theme (Change Tomorrow), we have decided to join the challenge! Despite that, the team was formed by the vision we have, which is to see the sparks that Java or other Open Source technology could provide and how Open Jive 2009 theme and objectives will be fulfilled!

  * Name of Appllication    : Link-Style (Link it with Style)

  
  * Proposal (300-500 words) (eg. State the business / world issue that the team is addressing, objective, description of application, recommendations etc):    :

“Health is priceless!” However, promoting healthy lifestyle is always a challenge. Urban people tend to spend long hours working that they may be negligent about healthy lifestyle and work life harmonization. This kind of unhealthy lifestyle will result in more burden for the family, higher medical cost for the company, and subsequently, larger health issues for the society.

“Prevention is always better than cure!” We believe self-motivated exercises and participation of physical and social activity will help to achieve a healthy lifestyle and work-life harmonization. Thus, reducing the medical cost of the companies and benefit the society at large.

Our team will build an application that will allow community to participate, share and promote physical and social activities. The application will not only enable user to manage their personal health profile, but also provide a platform for them to join a community which shares the common value of healthy lifestyle and work-life harmonization.

The application has the capabilities to mix & match users with similar interests so as to enable them to participate and organize activities together.

There will also be a reward system to motivate the users to participate and organize events. Reward points will be issued to users who completed the organized events. Accumulated points can be used to obtain recognition and rewards. Furthermore, people are likely to be more motivated to attend the events with positive peer influence.

Empowered by the cutting edge technologies offered by Sun, we will build this open source application using Java Technology, JavaFX, GlassFish, MySQL and Netbean IDE. Enjoying the extensive coverage ranging from web to mobile, users will get to experience this unique application which encourages work-life harmonization by integrating their personal health management with social circle influence. By actively participate the social activities and exercise organized by the community, users will achieve personal growth in their life.