Cherish

_Note: development is on-hold for Cherish. If you'd like to contribute please contact @mario_catch_

Cherish is a cloud platform for showing off your Initiatives to the world, and allowing the community to decide which ones they want to see come to fruition.

With Cherish you will be able to:

• Create Initiatives
• Vote and comment on Initiatives
• Set up goals
• Donate towards Initiatives
• Follow the activities from exisitng Initiatives

Why Cherish?

There are a few options out there for hosting your goals and projects with community feedback and assistance... so why Cherish?

Cherish aims to set itself apart by enforcing a good willed policy on all of our Initiatives. That is, an Initiative must be within the following categories to be considered eligible for Cherish:

• Open Source Project
• Nonprofit
• Charity
• Event

How It Works

As a creator

1. Create an account
2. Create your Initiative
3. Set up your goals
4. Advertise your Initiative and monitor your up votes/comments/donations through the Admin panel

As a browser

1. Create an account
2. Search for Initiatives by category or keyword
3. Vote and comment on the Initiatives you believe in
4. Donate towards Initiatives to help them achieve their goal
5. Share Initiatives on popular social media channels to help spread the word

History and Development Process

Cherish is open source and developed with Meteor. Cherish was started by mariocatch and iamlasse. We started from Reddit with an eagerness to learn Meteor and give something back to the community.

Project Roadmap

The Cherish roadmap is currently private, but we plan on making it public soon. We will take suggestions from the community on what features they would like to see implemented. We may open up a public slack channel as well.

Contributing to Cherish

• Anyone is free to submit pull requests of their liking to Cherish through Github
• You can also use the issues section of our Github project for keeping the discussion going

Running Cherish

• Clone this repository
• Run meteor --settings settings.json for a production environment (no users/Initiatives)
• Run meteor --setings dev-settings.json for a development environment (admin user, mocked Initiatives)

The Cherish Team

• mariocatch
  • Twitter: @mario_catch
  • Github: mariocatch
• iamlasse
  • Github: iamlasse
• ralphking
  • Twitter: @ralphomking
  • Github: ralphking
• jeffshaver
  • Twitter: @jeffshaver_
  • Github: jeffshaver