Gatherings

[chakshuahuja]

This feature is called Gathering which is basically like a Web-Event.

Features

• Admin can create a “Gathering” which can be thought of as an Event or a Webinar.
• When a “Gathering” is created, we generate a link to the Video Conference by using Jit.si.
• Jit.si is an open source platform for Video Conferencing inside the browser.
• This link is saved in the Entity itself but is only revealed when the gathering is ongoing or has occurred in past
• Any other user (student or otherwise) can Join a particular Gathering.
• Once you Join, you can view the Link to the Video Conference only when it has started.
• We display Video Conference links to the past Gatherings (so that you can checkout any chat/notes on the video conferencing software)
• Once the Gathering is in past, users can't join them (or leave them)
• All the Gatherings are shown in Gatherings tab in the navbar in the order as Ongoing, then Upcoming and then the past ones.
• It would've been nice if we were using ndb instead of db since we need to model a many-to-many relationship and as pointed out by one comment in the code that ReferenceProperty is expensive since it causes an RPC call
• I haven't added tests for this feature. Let me know if you would like to see them.

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[chakshuahuja]

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