Weighted Lottery Event Registration System

Mentor: Adam Ryman, Engineer at Value Creation Machine LLC

Team members: Sherry Wang, Marianne Tolentino, Yasiris Ortiz

Create a weighted lottery based event registration system.

Audience: Reoccurring events with limited capacity. Where you want everyone to, on average, be selected the same number of times to attend the event.

Your team will build a cloud hosted SAS (software as a service) for event organizers.
Including an interface for event organizers and attendees, a backend service, and a datastore.

Rough Feature Specification:

- Event organizer registration and deregistration.
- Event organizer interface, creating events, inviting people, setting lottery times, etc.
- Event registration and deregistration.
- Notifications of lottery registration beginning.
- Lottery registration and deregistration.
- Notifications to winners.
- Persist information about winners to inform next lottery.

Stretch Features:

- Interface for event organizer to optionally penalize winners for not attending an event or canceling their RSVP early.
- In the case of a winner canceling their RSVP, allow for interface to lottery out the new opening.
- Give event organizer further control
- Give event organizer statistics

Rough Technical Specification:

- Database to persist users, events, attendance, etc
- Backend service that interacts with datastore, performs lotteries, and interacts with front end.
- Frontend
- Texting (SMS)
- Simple Web UI for event organizer

Stretch Technical:

- Frontend
- Web UI for attendees
- Web UI for registration
- Email User Interface
- Style the various web UI's

Technology and Tooling:

The team will decide what languages, technology, and tooling that will be used for this project.

However, I will be most helpful in the tools below:

- Golang
- Amazon Web Services
- MySQL
- Twillio

I also have experience in:

- Python
- Java
- C#
- Google Cloud Services
- Postgres
- HTML / CSS / JS

Once again, the team will decide. Feel free to suggest Node, Typescript, Ruby, ArangoDB, Azure, or whatever else you want to use. I will let you know how I can help.

Looking forward to working with you. Let's build something cool.

CodeDay Labs advanced-track team