`olin.build`

Olin.build facilitates and promotes community software projects at the Olin College of Engineering.

You can read the club charter here.

Interested? Join us at olin-build.slack.com

Want an olin.build subdomain for your group/project? Fill out this form and we’ll be in touch.

Featured Projects

Actively-maintained community-facing projects. These are intended for use by non-programmers.

Community Calendar (source code)
The community calendar for Olin.
FUTUREboard (source code)
The digital signage of tomorrow, today!
info.olin.build (source code)
A searchable directory of Olin related sites and services.
O-Links (source code)
A short link service for the Olin community.

Actively-maintained infrastructure projects. These projects are intended for use by programmers, to build their own programs.

ABE (source code)

Amorphous Blob of Events (ABE) is an API for accessing community events. ABE is the data store behind the Olin Community Calendar.
Hosting Services

If you’re ready to publish your app to the community, you may want an olin.build subdomain. This communicates that your project is an Olin community project, but isn’t an official institutional project. Talk to us.
Sign In and Intranet Detection

Use ABE to test whether a web site visitor is inside the Olin intranet. Ask an off-campus web site visitor to sign in using their Olin email address. Read more here.
Code Ninjas

Talk to us for advice on getting your project off the ground, prepping it for community use, or to find a connection with someone who can.

Things that are no longer great, but once were. Look at these for inspiration, or if you're looking for something to adopt.

Event Schedule (source code)
An experiment in using events from ABE to drive the presentation of a conference-style schedule.
signyl (source code)
(WIP) Generate files for vinyl-cut signs that conform to the Olin Library style.