The Project
GopherMaps is a project made with support from Social Coding, student group at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities where students work together to create real projects with the skills learned in their coursework.
Social Coding funds the backend services for GopherMaps, and handles the distribution costs of the GopherMaps app.
GopherMaps has received additional support from the University of Minnesota's Undergraduate Student Government, who helped with writing instructions as well as advertising the app throughout campus.
Social Coding is a student group and is not directly affiliated with the University of Minnesota, only operating as a registered student organization as per the University of Minnesota's Student Unions and Activities (SUA) policies.
The People
Ryan Roche
Lead Developer
- Developed the entirety of the GopherMaps iOS app
- Developed the entirety of the Backend logic such as route planning and reachability calculation
- Built out the graph database representation of the Gopher Way network and its buildings used by the app and backend
- Developed the app's CI/CD pipelines
- Organized the database of every building connection within the Gopher Way and the automated system for assigning them to volunteer instruction-writers, then converting and add the submitted instructions to the app's CDN
- Directed the publicity campaign for the app's launch, and designed marketing materials such as the GopherMaps logo wordmark and icon
- Developed the promotional website you're viewing right now!