CommunityFirst

Project Motivation

This is a website, developed by 7 SDA students. We built this as a part of our final group project. Instruction for idea was to build something which can make an impact in current situation with COVID-19. That is how we come up with idea of helping communities.

Project was run using scrum methodology.

What is CommunityFirst?

Community First is a platform for people to voluntarily share, donate and offer services to others in their communities. We at Community First believe that real, sustainable change requires ingenuity and engagement of its members. Our vision is to help communities better equip themselves to deal with unforeseen circumstances such as war, natural disasters and pandemics etc.

Project Structure

It is a full stack web application.

Below I will list different technologies and libraries used:

• Docker
• Java
• Spring
• React
• GIT
• Bootstrap
• Lombok
• Material UI
• Countup
• ChartJS2

Project Pages

• Homepage (presentation of what CommunityFirst is about)

• About Page (presentation of Developers and website as a project)

• Covid tracker page (with country selection for latest fetched information regarding COVID represented in graphs)

• Register Page

• Login Page

• Community Selection Page (Before entering, user is required to pick a community he/she wants to browse posts)

• Items Page (User can post and seee other posts about physical items. User can either request or offer an item)

• Servivces Page (User can post and seee other posts about services. User can either request or offer help)

• My Post Page (User sees all his/her posts and has ability to edit and delete them)

• Post Detail Page (User can see entire post and fetch contact information of the person who posted it)

• EXTRA FUNCITIONALITY: Search

Backlog items never saw the life of day

If we would have more time, we planned to implement following features:

• Profile page
• BankID confirmation
• Option to upload images for items posts

Rewards Recieved

This project recieved two out of four awards at the SDA final day award ceremony.

• Best User Interface
• Most impactful idea

Potential Funding/Investment

• Local business advertisements
• Gouvernment funding

Developers:

• Ainura Polatoglu
• Irenej Bozovicar
• Krishna Nadella
• Kshitiz Bista
• Pallavi Thanikonda
• Saloumi Ghabbour
• Sadia Chaudhary

Communication

We worked in Scrum methodology during Corona outbreak. Therefore, we all worked remotely. Our communication channels were mainly Slack and Trello