1 Alumni Registration & Authenticated Access

This involves deciding the format of the information stored per alumnus, its validity, policy for sharing with the institute and other IITs alumni organizations, ensuring authenticated self-updating of the information by the alumni, privacy policy when sharing parts of the information on the web and only with other authenticated alumni.

Work with IITB and preferably use their database schema for storing fields such as name, nickname, batch, hostels, location, email/question for password recovery, etc. This is to learn from others instead of reinventing the wheel and also to facilitate any future pan-IIT info sharing.

Work with the Institute to get the graduate roll for first validation and registration of alumni. Share the database back online on a regular basis.

Select an open source tool that can facilitate collecting info, authenticating them, and making parts of the site open only to them.

The server platform is solaris, apache, mySQL and php.

Looking for an owner to lead with this.

Status Update: ( Aakash Sahai CSE88 )

The work on this activity has started with Ashish Singhal (CSE94) leading the effort on the database side. I am working with Ashish at the moment to define detailed functional specification and on evaluating and selecting the proper middleware tools. Once the specification has solidified, it will be posted to the main site to invite comments and suggestions from the alumni community.