Meeting agenda October 5, 2017

Things we missed

Check-in

Utsab: absent everyone else: present

Things we discussed from last meeting and its feedback

More details about the project from the customer

Aaron: Professor mentioned we only need to store a username, no password, no encryption. And for creating chatbots, we could store their work progress, but if a customer uses the chatbots, no conversation history will be stored.

Taking notes and archive our meetings

Utsab: absent

Database

At this point, from Aaron's response, we probably don't need any complicated database since our traffic will be very limited.

learnyounode

Xie mentioned he had some trouble setting up a c9 account because it was asking billing information. But he installed it successfully on his local Linux Virtual Machine. Everybody else is making progress and we have the whole weekend to learn and explore. After this weekend, we will start our project on Node.js

Basic website setup

Nate will be working on this during the weekend.

Setting up Facebook Messenger API and testing

Thomas will be taking care of this section during this weekend.

Things that come up

possibility of implementing "drag n' drop" functions.

Aaron mentioned the chatbot interface will be established and terminated as the user designed. Therefore, in order to make the chatbot "alive" forever, we have to ask users to implement a while loop.

However, our goal is to let users able to implement a chatbot without coding, so we think that some sort of Scratch-like "drag n' drop" functions will be needed in the future.