History

Kir-Dev is a web developer team of students from Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE) Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics. Our group was founded in 2001 as the Developers and Operators of the Dormitory Information System and since 2009 it is part of the Simonyi Károly Collegium. Since our foundation, we have been involved in the application and training of various web technologies, as well as developing and operating web applications useful to the dormitory's student community.

Our main mission is to continuously develop and maintain the Profile and Groups (Profil és Körök) - PéK for short. Currently, the faculty's student community manages many type of administration through this application. This system has already gone through several generations thanks to the active members of the group: the first one was called the Dormitory Information System (KIR), this generation was written in PHP. Then, as it expanded, we rewrote it in JavaEE, alongside OpenAM, and called it the Faculty Information System (VIR), and later it got its modern name, PéK. Finally, in 2015, PéK was migrated to Ruby on Rails.

Our goals

The main reason for forming Kir-Dev was to develop and maintain PéK, but this was not the only reason for its creation. The purpose of the group is to bring together members of the faculty's student community who share similar interests and inspiration in the world of web development. The group provides a space to explore areas of the web profession, to share experiences. We strive to run our projects according to the latest team organisation and process management methods, so that our members can get as close as possible to experiencing working in the industry and start off with a good foundation.