February 2002–January 2003
DevHood (www.devhood.com) is an online student community for college students all over the world to come together to discuss, learn about, and teach each other about the Microsoft .NET Framework. Created by six MIT students on the Microsoft .NET platform starting in 2001, DevHood has evolved into a community with over 23,000 members from 400 colleges. DevHood incorporates a novel user experience and rating system that integrates elements of a traditional role-playing game with an online community, where user contribution metrics become the basis for players to advance in their “clan,” thus providing incentives for users to continue to contribute to the overall environment. The site also features forums and school-specific areas that can be personalized to the needs of the different communities.
Student Participants: Tien-Lok, Jonathan Lau, Edmund Chu, Peter Weng, Eugene Chiu, YiFung Lin, Norimasa Yoshida