A prototype service that matches newly arriving members to the appropriate civic projects.
This software is actively under development. It is not yet ready for release.
The Project Match web application is intended for new members first arriving at a Code For America "brigade", a collecting point for local civic projects.
The app connects new members with those civic projects which are likely to appeal to the skills they have to offer, the skills they want to learn, and their interests.
The notion of matching users to projects emerged from an effort to improve the experience of new members at Code For SF.
This service is the result of extensive UX research conducted at Code For San Francisco. This research included interviews with new members and project leaders, structured brainstorming, and wireframe prototyping.
User experience research at Code4SF is run by members of the UX Research Group.
Attention new developers on the project! - get started by installing the Notifications UI component, join our Slack channel, and learn about the development process.
Currently we are working on "Phase I: MVP". This includes a basic matching service for new members, and the ability for project leads to administer the system.
See docs/start-developing.md for installation details.
To interact with the team, please join #research on http://c4a.me/cfsfslack.
To run the service, or to develop all aspects of Project Match, you must first install the Web App and dependencies, including the database.
See docs/installation.md for the full instructions.
Project Match design and development will be released in phases, following a Road Map to MVP.
Development tasks are listed out within milestones in GitHub.
Project Match organizes its functionality into components, each of which may combine Node.js, client-side javascript, and python.
See docs/architecture.md for details.
All interaction with the database, including CRUD operations on projects, can be accessed from a REST API endpoint.
See docs/json-api.md for details.