codeforbaltimore / civicideahub

Project to create a portal for gathering civic hacking ideas.

civicideahub

Project to create a portal for gathering civic hacking ideas.

Overall project goals:

• Create a place for at will submission of civic tech/hacking ideas from anyone via a mobile accesible web page
• Empower community members to solve problems in their neighborhood by connecting members with needed skills around shared impact goals
• Create mechanisms for feedback and growing ideas into projects
• Track the evolution of projects into protoypes and live products
• Create a space for idea collisions, different ideas for the same problems
• Create a space for skilled persons to find projects they want to contribute to

Anti-goals:

• Endless discussion without progress
• A collections of complaints wihtout proposed solutions

MVP Goals

• Collect ideas from the Baltimore community that may directly and positively impact local communities and government displaying the ideas already submitted
• Display collected ideas (and allow interaction on ideas?)
• Display what is currently in progress.

Key Sections

• view ideas.
• idea submission form
• page for about us.
• login/signup simplified through user name login and oauth2.0 standards and access.
• Some basic level of administration for the site based on user roles

Installation

1. Install Node and NPM

2. Install Dependencies

   npm install

3. Start Dev Server

   npm start
   

Start Mock API server:

./node_modules/.bin/json-server mock-data/projects.json --port 3030

If you have docker you can generate a dev container:

docker-compose up

The dev server is hosted on http://localhost:3000

The mock api server is hosted on http://localhost:3030

Colors

• #CAEBF2 Sky
• #A9A9A9 Carbon (darker)
• #FF3B3F Watermelon
• #EFEFEF Neutral