EAO Project Information & Collaboration System (EPIC)

EPIC is the BC Environmental Assessment Office's web-based project information and collaboration system, a tool to improve the efficiency and transparency of the provincial environmental assessment process by providing citizens and stakeholders with more intuitive access to project data and information.

Built through the Office's EAO Systems Modernization Project (ESM), in alignment with and as a pathfinding project of the BCDevExhange collaboration between the Office of the Chief Information Officer and Government Communication and Public Engagement's Government Digital Experience teams, this application is a tool to support the work of EAO staff, project proponents, and other stakeholders as environmental assessments are conducted.

Features

The features provided by the web-based EPIC application include:

• Greater transparency, understanding and public participation in the Environmental Assessment (EA) process
• Comprehensive project details, status, important dates, contact information and other relevant information
• Public-facing view of documents related to proposed and ongoing development projects
• Maps showing exactly where projects are located within the province

Browser Compatibility

• IE 11/Edge
• Safari (evergreen)
• Chrome (evergreen)
• Firefox (evergreen)

Content Author Prerequisites

A GitHub account with 2fa enabled Write access to this repository

Developer Requirements

EPIC has been built using MongoDB, Express, AngularJS and NodeJS. See http://mean.io/ for more information on the project's development stack. Basic globally install requirements for Win32, OSX, or Linux are as follows:

• node@ >= 4.4.2
• npm@ >=- 2.15.1
• mongodb-server@ >= 2.6.x
• grunt@ >= 0.4.5
• git

Installation

Development mode:

git clone https://github.com/bcgov/esm-server.git
npm install
grunt build && node server.js

Production Mode:

git clone https://github.com/bcgov/esm-server.git
npm install
grunt buildprod && NODE_ENV=production node server.js

After this you may open up a browser of your choice and navigte to http://localhost:3000/ Default user/pass is admin/admin for development mode, or watch the terminal output of running node server.js for the autogenerated admin password (in red terminal text).

Project Status

The project was released in February 2017 as a public beta, with continuing engagement, co-design and development proceeding to enhance the web application through future releases. Feedback, involvement and contribution are greatly appreciated! If you have any comments, please send us an email at epicsupport.eao@gov.bc.ca or click https://projects.eao.gov.bc.ca/contact to learn more.

How to Contribute

Feel free to create pull requests from the default "master" branch, click here to create one automatically: https://github.com/bcgov/esm-server/pull/new/master.

Licence

Copyright 2017 Province of British Columbia

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at 

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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