The site is not yet ready for the public. We expect to go live sometime in April 2024.
We've stolen some basic blogging features from the Flask tutorial.
We should improve upon these features by swapping out the plain text blog interface with a feature-rich WYSIWYG like CKEditor.
We need to customize the website's appearance, audit it for accessibility, deploy it on our webserver, and get the blog up and running.
Then, we'll decide on wiki software and implement it. We'll either include that software in this project or host it separately and include a link.
If you are an ICMA member, ask someone on the IT committee to add your GitHub account as an owner of the organization, or if you have the @icma-admin GitHub credentials, do it yourself on the organization's Members page.
Follow GitHub flow (create pull requests with individual fixes and features). Make your git commits using your own GitHub account, not the @icma-admin account.
If you are not an ICMA member and you're curious, contact us.
To manually run tests: coverage run -m pytest
Also see our project wiki for more information.
See the Installation page on our project wiki for detailed instructions.
We are the Iowa City Mutual Aid collective.
Check our profile @icmutualaid if you want to get in contact.
We work to meet the survival needs of people whom our systems continue to fail.
We do this because the conditions in which we are made to live are unjust. Our local, state, and national governments all continue to neglect crises and leave people behind.
We must work toward liberation by meeting needs that are unmet by the capitalist class who control the wealth and the state.
The purpose of this project is to eliminate overhead costs. Every dollar spent on a website builder is one less dollar spent on propane.
We will choose wisely which services to take on ourselves, because this is all for nothing if the collective has to hire a developer to rescue our project.
The project can never rest on one or two people's shoulders. Other members and other collectives must be able to continue our work. We must:
Inaccessible is never "good enough for now." Our site will always be easy to parse with accessibility and translation software. Our specific goal is for the production site to always be fully WCAG 2.1 AA compliant.
To that end, we will collaborate on development and operations.