GSoC 2018 Final Report Anjali Dhanuka

Project Overview

The Volunteer Management System (VMS) will be useful for volunteer coordinators, volunteer sign-up, tracking hours, and reporting. VMS helps Systers in organizing events, and helps the volunteers to contribute in them.

Technologies Used

• Back-end: Python, Django
• Front-end: Bootstrap
• Database: Psql
• Testing: Selenium
• Integrations: Portal API

Project Goals

• It needed a complete upgradation of the Django version as well as the UI.
• An API to send the event data to Vola App
• Reporting Functionality implementation
• Using Portal API data to provide events for volunteers
• Other enhancements including email confirmation, improvement in code, password reset, validation of location, organizations, notification implementation
• Search Filters implementation on events, jobs, volunteers

Accomplishments

• Migrate to Python 3.6 and Django 1.11
• Vola API implementation
• Portal API communication implementation
• Implementation of Reporting Functionality
• Validation of organizations
• Edit Request Manager for logged shifts
• Shift Filters for logged, unlogged and reported shifts
• Search Filters for events and jobs for admins and volunteers
• Validation of location dependent dropdown list implementation
• UI upgradation
• Notification for volunteers
  • Assignment of shift
  • Cancellation of shift
  • Rejection of submitted report
  • Approval of submitted report with the PDF of the same.
  • Editing of logged hours by admins upon an edit request.
• Volunteer Search Implementation for administrators on the basis of event and job
• Implementation of Password Reset, password change Functionality
• Email Authentication
• Update JavaScript according to standards
• Implementing Class based views for Authentication App
• Added description field for events
• Event Detail View
• Sign up allowed with empty organization database
• Improvement in CSS coding standards by replacing nbsp with padding
• Upcoming shifts filter
• Password Regex Checks in sign up
• Past events set to non editable
• Wiki SideBar update
• Hide textbox for resume link when file is uploaded
• Home Page updation with removal of broken links
• Database models doc updation
• Password Authentication while sign-up

Find my work here
Weekly Reports here
Blogs here

In addition to the above features, I would recommend the following features to enhance the project in future.

• Porting to Django 2.0
• Switch to Event based structure from shift based
• Various other social logins - Github, Twitter, LinkedIn

Challenges

• Work dependency
• First Remote working experience

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