This is an unmaintained research project. Please learn from it and steal ideas.

Wust

A hypergraph-based discussion system

You can find an in-depth description of the goals and ideas in our master theses:

• Quality Assurance in a Structured Collaborative Discussion System, Felix Dietze (2015)
• Modeling Open Discourse in a Structured Collaborative Discussion System, Johannes Karoff (2015)

Other related projects can be found here: Related Projects

If you have any questions, or just want to talk to us, use felix.dietze@rwth-aachen.de. We're happy to talk to you.

Screenshots

Build dependencies

• JDK 8
• simple build tool (sbt)
• Neo4j >= 2.2.2
• gem
• npm
• bower

Build instructions

have a look into ./buildproduction and then run it:

• ./buildproduction this will run tests and build a binary containing the server with wust.

Running

• start the neo4j server
• set the environment variables for connecting to the database:
  • NEO4J_URL, NEO4J_USER, NEO4J_PASS
  • to activate the tutorial: UI_TUTORIAL_ENABLED=true
• ./initseed and select [6] tasks.SeedDatabase
  • this seeds the database
• target/universal/stage/bin/wust
  • starts the production web server on port 9000

Hacking

• gem install compass
• npm install
• bower install
• npm install -g blumenkohl.js
• start a neo4j server on localhost:7474 with user/pw neo4j/neo4j or adjust using env variables NEO4J_URL, NEO4J_USER, NEO4J_PASS
  • don't forget to seed the database: ./initseed
• sbt run and ./blumenkohl
• open browser at http://localhost:3000
• changing source files will recompile and reload automatically

License

wust is free software released under the Apache License, Version 2.0