Hostels

[GetPsyched]

Hostels can do with a lot of automation.

Ideas

Mess menu

The mess committee mainly has 2 jobs:

1. Updating the regular menu,
2. and deciding a fancy menu on events.

We're focusing on the 1st. To update the regular menu we can give permissions to mess committee members to create a form submit-able only by the corresponding hostel residents. This form will consist of a poll regarding some proposed menu items which allows the hostel members to actually have a say in what the menu is going to be.

Mess rebates

Filing for rebates is very much manual and can be automated with a nice calendar view as well. Some features would be:

• Setting a rebate period for the future at any time; the next day or in the next month
• Removing/reducing a rebate period if it hasn't happened yet.
• Ensuring the cap of a rebate period being 10 days per month.

Mess dues

Dues should be more comprehensive than the current system of simply getting an opaque monetary value of how much you owe. If each additional charge was added individually, this problem will be solved. Also, this would allow students to track how much they're spending out of their initial mess deposit.