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Project Overview
The mission is to support members of the public searching for support groups for things like helping care for an elderly or sick relative; and also to help charities and non-profits find each other and network. See the following overview video:
This website by "Mind in Harrow" was given as an example of the best similar service already available, although it is specific to mental health, and "LocalSupport" is intended to be generic across all types of charities and non-Profit Organizations (NPOs).
To come up to speed on the project connect with Sam on sam@agileventures.org or Skype username "tansaku". But feel free to check out the following resources:
- User Stories Draft
- GitHub Repo
- PivotalTracker
- Non-rails Demo site
- LoFi Prototypes
- Staging Site
- Production Site
- Install notes (on Github wiki)
- Developer tips
What's particularly relevant is that we can grab a snapshot of all the UK charities contact details from OpenCharities, and extract all the Harrow charities to seed the LocalSupport directory. However this data does change over time and we’d like to ensure that we can take advantage of any data updates that open charities receive. Although perhaps this is less important than the initial seeding.
Such a system might have data which included “registered” contact details and “operational” contact details for each charity, with the “registered” contact details being updated automatically and the “operational” contact details being updated by local users. When they match a single contact data could be displayed, and both if they are different with notes about what the difference between the two is, although at the same time what we critically need is user stories that can be validated by end users ... a draft of which can be found in the links above, along with currently empty GitHub repo and Pivotal Tracker for the project:
Interestingly one can create an interactive map in Google Fusion tables very easily ...
Link to interactive google map
How this works:
Regarding behind the curtains, the data is just grabbed from http://opencharities.org zip file of charities (bit of regex to get those local to a particular area) and then uploaded to fusion tables (from csv format) - takes all of like 10 minutes: https://www.google.com/fusiontables/data?docid=1ZnLJPfdXgiD49s3JO9Vyhf0VPGgBnzs-985jT3s#map:id=3
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