kibunch

KEC Information Bunch



[kibunch] [kiface] [kichain] [kontest]

What is kibunch?


Its a project.

Its an out-of-the-box Intranet solution with tonnes of features.

Makes your office paperless; in every sense.

Its an architecture. You can plug your own application into kibunch and access our information base.



What can I do with kibunch?


As a student you can:


  1. Communicate with your friends within college or outside.
  2. Submit assignments
  3. Take online tests.
  4. Check your timetable from home, cyber cafe or your WAP enabled mobile phone.
  5. Update your personal details which the college uses and share with your friends.
  6. View your performance and compare it with your classmates.
  7. Check your attendance from home, hospital or Ooty.
  8. Apply for OD and leave.
  9. Evaluate staff by clicking and pulling the menus.
  10. View your academic history, co-curricular, extra-curricular history, etc.

As a staff you can:

  1. Manage your class information.
  2. Make announcements to all students of your class.
  3. Allot assignments to classes with due dates.
  4. Conduct tests online.
  5. Take leave or OD and allocate substitute.
  6. Mark attendance.
  7. Calculate internal marks based on criteria.
  8. A lot more.. will be added in the future

As a HOD/Principal:

  1. There's very little you can't do with regard to accessing and modifying the whole lot of information.

As a programmer you can:

  1. Use our protocol and plug your application into kibunch. That way you can concentrate on providing services and not how you get the information and security that you would need.


What are the components of kibunch?


  1. kibase - http://www.kongu.edu/kibunch/kibase.html
  2. kiface - http://www.kongu.edu/kibunch/kiface.html
  3. kichain - http://www.kongu.edu/kibunch/kichain.html
  4. kiwi - http://www.kongu.edu/kibunch/kiwi.html
kibase is the database, completely hidden from user's perspective.

kiface is our own interface between the database and our chain of servers.

kichain is the server software which can be chained together where each node serves each department.

kiwi is the web interface to kichain




Who are the people involved?


The football players are:

  1. Arvind Kalyan [kibase/kiface/kichain]
  2. Manivannan. P [kiwi]
  3. Ramprasad. R [kiwi]
  4. Prabhu. S [kiwi]
Each one of us has contributed equal amount of code, comments, bugs and ideas to the project. And yeah, we all like coffee and pizza.


Can I become a part of kibunch?


You speak kibunchese? Thats all you need to do to be part of kibunch.

kibunchese is the protocol we use.


Whats the protocol? Where can I get it?



Wonder how so many modules communicate effectively? Its the protocol that we use. The protocol is open but still in an inconsistent state from the view of a newcomer.

Give us sometime and we'll give you the full prorocol so you can start writing applications that run on kibunch.


Wed Dec 31 23:59:21 IST 2003 [arv]