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6-bit's Chapalang! is a social utility that connects people with friends and new friends
by offering a place for exchanging ideas and information on its public domain.
http://www.chapalang.com

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Current Status

  Current Iteration   Meeting Status

Iteration Number : 16 *Final Iteration*
Iteration Start Date : 24 November 2012
Iteration End Date : 3 December 2012
Iteration Task :
1. Final Presentation
2. Poster Day


Weekly Meeting Schedule
Every Monday, Wednesday, Friday
SIS Analytics Kitchen
12pm to 3pm

Weekly Supervisor Meeting
Every Monday
2pm to 3pm

Last Update: 28 November 2012


The Team

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The Project: Chapalang

Talk, Buy, Sell, Share, all on Chapalang!

Chapalang! is a social utility that connects people with friends and new friends by offering a place for exchanging ideas and information on its public domain. People use our discussion forums to write HOWTOs, share findings, ask questions, comment on news, and many more.
Chapalang! also features a social marketplace for you to buy online, and participate in mass orders in a convenient and reliable way.
Best of all, you can browse wish lists of your friends to know what are the right things to buy on special occasions. You could buy the gift on Chapalang! and have it sent to their doorsteps, or organize a Gift Sharing campaign to share the costs of gift with other friends.

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Chapalang's Features

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proposes the following unique features:

Gifts Sharing :
Gifting can be simple or collective. A simple gift is purchased when a user pays for the full costs of the gift, and states the recipient’s contact details upon checkout. Chapalang! will contact the recipient for their address, and subsequently fulfil the order with the delivery of goods.

A collective gift is purchased when a user takes on the role of an organizer and initiates a Gift Sharing Campaign. He will select a product from a user’s wish list, or any other product in the marketplace, and designate it to be the gift to be shared. He will also decide on the product options, if any, as well as the delivery method.

Thereafter, he can invite a list of mutual friends whom he wants to share the gift with. The invitees will be informed of the campaign via a notification, and will be able to contribute any varying amount on the campaign page. They will also be able to hide their amount of contribution, or even hide their contribution record from public. Upon successfully raising the target amount which is the price of the gift, an email will be sent to the recipient for him/her to update their address for fulfilment and delivery.


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Mass orders : Popular on several informal online marketplaces where users of a particular interests group will contribute to a bulk order with their individual orders of smaller quantities. Thereafter, the collective order with bulk quantity will be used to negotiate for cheaper price from suppliers. However, mass orders conducted on existing marketplace platforms are largely informal, with no payment or buyer particulars tracking abilities and Chapalang seeks to fulfill this gap.


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Escrow service : provided to establish trust and assurance for the transactions taken place on Chapalang’s platform, where buyers will pay payments to Chapalang instead of directly to the seller. The payment is held in trust by Chapalang and will be released to the seller upon the buyers’ confirmation on the receipt of goods or 20 days after the shipping of items if there is no response from the buyer. Currently, most e-market platform places the onus of establishing confidence in the transaction solely on the buyers and sellers.


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Chapalang is a self-proposed project for DotCom Enterprise. Upon successful development, DotCom will commercialize the project for live operations. Mr. Eric Chew, Special Projects Manager will be the primary contact from DotCom. Throughout the development and implementation stages, our team will deploy the project on the live systems provided by DotCom.

Comparison

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Academic Milestones

Acceptance

Acceptance Presentation Slides

Midterm

Mid Term Wiki
Midterm Presentation Slides

Final

Final Presentation Slides *Coming Soon!*