Fire Refuge

Welcome to the Fire Refuge project! We are glad you are here! :tada:

We are helping folks find temporary refuge from fire impacted zones. More project info at Democracy Lab where we attended a few hacks. There you will find links to the project management Trello. This repo and the issues here are specific to the technical implimentation. There are more ways to contribute and you can volunteer at Democracy Lab.

A subset of regional disaster response data from COAD effort for the wildfires in 2020.

Getting started

Our technology stack from back to front is Docker, Postgres, Asp.Net, Blazor. The only tool you need for this project is Visual Studio. But you can alternatively use the CLI and your favorite code editor. This getting started guide will focus on vidual studio for brevity. We are deploying using docker, so it's a great idea to install Docker Desktop and activate K8s. More on K8s and deployment later. Postres is the database so you can install that locally or as a docker container.

1. Install Visual Studio
2. Install Postgres
   • remember the admin username and password
3. Optionally install a database tools like DBeaver and Azure Data Studio
   • create a local database, name it FireRefuge
4. Create local tables using the scripts in /sql
5. Change the connection string to match your username and password
6. Run the app!

Note on code quality and best practices. This is a volunteer effort with a "keep it simple" mentality. You will see shortcuts in the code and patterns missing. That's OK, and you can chat it out with teh contributors in discussions