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Cleveland Aradhana

The Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival is the largest Indian classical music festival outside of India. It was first celebrated in 1978 and has now grown to be a 12-day festival with more than 8,000 attendees with 2,000 appearing for the opening weekend.

The Aradhana Committee is a group of volunteers who spearhead the planning and organization of the Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival. They work closely with various other Carnatic music organizations in the United States and Canada to bring artists to Cleveland for the festival.

The Cleveland Aradhana Android App allows users to quickly check the status of the various competitions held at the Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival.

Role/Objectives

The festival is usually conducted every April. Previously the client was managing the process manually. Managing the artists was difficult for the volunteers whenever there was a change in the event/unavailability of room/absence of artist which involved rescheduling.

Having a system that is marginally better than the completely manual system serves very little benefit. Also a brittle software system prone to lot of human error can have potentially serious consequences. Managing such a system would be very challenging.

The request for the application came at a short notice and had to be delivered within 45 days which included a responsive Admin portal and an Android App.

Solution Provided

Wisdomleaf analyzed the challenges and carefully studied the workflow of Aradhana music festival and quickly adopted to SCRUM methodology. We had sprint releases every week as it was to be completed on a tight schedule.

The Client was also part of the release meetings and provided feedback which was incorporated into the subsequent sprints.

We architected the solution and provided client with the templates to collect the user information and import to our portal application which would allocate participants the room automatically.

The solution provided a way for the judges/coordinators of event to reorder/cancel/update the status of participant. These notifications were pushed to the Mobile APP users who could plan for the event much better than previous years.

The application was built on Yii MVC framework for rapid application development and Bootstrap Css framework was used for styling it.

Portal offered easy interface to shift the events between rooms in an elegant way. The Mobile APP was using push notification services through which the participants/parents were updated on the key information within seconds.

Testimonials

The clevelelandaradhana project was a great success! Have been getting compliments on the simplicity of the system, the interface design, the usefulness of the system to get all participants updated in real time and people are calling it very smooth IT rollout

Great job everyone !! We pulled it off!
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