Welcome to the Webbitiimi blog!

Webbitiimi is a part of Prodeko, Guild of Industrial Engineering and Management. You are now reading the very first posting in this blog that will cover the odds and ends of Webbitiimi’s activities. You can expect, e.g., pieces on the software engineering process, different technologies, and postmortems.

What is Prodeko?

Prodeko’s website says the following:

The Guild of Industrial Engineering and Management Prodeko is a student organization of students of industrial engineering, under the auspices of Aalto University Student Union. We are a rainbow of joyful, inspirational and ambitious people and we enjoy doing stuff together and having fun. We form the Prodeko community together with Aalto IEM department and our Alumni organization. The Prodeko community is both a vast network of diverse and unique people, but also a great resource and source of inspiration for many prodekoians.

What is Webbitiimi?

Webbitiimi, or the Web Team, is the group of guild officials that builds and maintains the guild’s various pieces of software. Having been known by various names such as WWW-toimikunta (WWW committee) and Webmaster & Webmasterin kaverit (the Webmaster and the Webmaster’s friends), the team currently carries the name of Webbitiimi. The team currently comprises 13 regular members, the CTO leading the team, and the Minister of Media and Information Technology who represents the team in the Board of Prodeko.

Why write a blog?

We’ve noticed that despite a long history of software engineering, many lessons learnt get forgotten as people come and go. This platform will give us a place to document these in such a way that they will be legible and interesting to both the future Web Team and other guild members alike. Perhaps this could even be of use to the larger software development community - who knows!

Additionally, since the output of the Web Team’s work is often software whose context is difficult to explain to the general public, and might even be stored in private repositories, this blog serves as a public reference. As a result of the work of the Web Team, we want not only to store the code but also the software engineering process. This is it.