The Boiler Book Club is Purdue's largest collection of readers! This organization serves as the central hub of various applications written to support the club. Please note that development is limited to members; to join, follow instructions as presented on the website.
Currently, this organization is maintained by Gavin Bowden, who was President from 2025-2026.
Also, please note that the main club website was built using Squarespace and we are not interested in migrating it presently. Supporting the website is one of the responsibilites of the Communication Committee.
We are always open to suggestions! Please feel free to join any of these.
Event Pass is a real-time event number-calling app for large events where attendees receive a number and are invited up in groups. It gives organizers a live control panel, attendees a personal claim ticket, staff a QR scanner, and the room a public display that updates instantly. Hosted at https://eventpass.boilerbookclub.com
- Lead: Gavin Bowden
- Language(s): JavaScript (JSX)
- Complexity: Advanced
- Scope: Large
An updated website built with React that gives users access to our club library. It features checkout and return abilities using an in-app barcode scanner. If you would like to contribute, this is a good place to start. React is intuitive and you will be able to see results immediately. Hosted at https://boilerlibrary.com
- Lead: Gavin Bowden
- Language(s): JavaScript (JSX)
- Complexity: Beginner
- Scope: Medium
A Red discord bot cog written to facilitate our Summer 2024's event, Bingo. It maintained a database of cards and allowed for interactions from our members. Was successfully deployed on a new club bot and ran for the duration of the summer.
- Lead: Gavin Bowden, Matt Headley
- Language(s): JavaScript (JSX)
- Complexity: Beginner
- Scope: Small
A website built with React that gives users access to our club library.
- Lead: Kai Tinkess
- Language(s): Rust
- Complexity: Intermediate
- Scope: Small
A backend Rust service to interact with our club library and centralize requests to it. Uses Axum and sheets4. Currently, there are no projects that rely on this and it can be considered deprecated.
- Lead: Kai Tinkess
- Language(s): Rust
- Complexity: Intermediate
- Scope: Small
A Red discord bot cog written to facilitate our Summer 2022's event, Bingo. It maintained a database of cards and allowed for interactions from our members. Was successfully deployed on our club bot Dawes and ran for the duration of the summer.
- Lead: Matt Headley
- Language(s): Python
- Complexity: Beginner
- Scope: Small
- Matt Headley
- Kai Tinkess
- Jack Moffat
- Gavin Bowden
