Events

Group Members

Sara Itani
Megan Kercher
Eric Lubell
TA: (TA's name)

Problem Statement

1. Managing a social calendar is difficult and inefficient: You have to call/text tons of people, take into account availability, remind people to come, figure out who's bringing what, etc.

2. Most event managers (Facebook, Meetup.com, etc.) are for planning events far in advance. It's very difficult to get people together for something you want to do on short notice (like a basketball game, dinner, game of chess, ...)

3. Hard to know who's in town to invite and filter friends in general. Facebook's "scroll through all your friends and check their box if you want to invite them" is a really really bad way to do this.

4. This is Adam Smith's idea, but online dating is a completely flawed model because meeting people by friends of friends is the best way to form relationships. http://blog.adamsmith.cc/2011/02/towards-better-online-dating.html

5. Current event managers are somewhat impersonal and non-customizable