- We are facing a global crisis and we want to help people in need by enabling volunteers, helpers to connect with them fast and safely to solve issues in local communities.
- As a consequence to the covid crisis, state support systems are overburdened.
- The most endangered age group (65+) have the least digital competency and people living in poor conditions also often lack access to the internet where they could ask for help.
We are creating an open-source multilingual online portal aimed at enhancing neighborhood cooperation that is scalable, promote the self-organization of local communities, ease the pressure on central/municipal social and other support systems.
- OFFLINE - If you see a need and can handle it yourself, you’re great! You don’t need to register the need.
- ONLINE - If you see a need on the portal, you can assign it to yourself
- ONLINE - If you see and can’t handle a need, you can register it and the platform asks others to help
Everyone in need but especially:
- Elders
- Handicapped people
- Families, single parents
- UX/UI/Graphic designers
- Web developers
- Testers (UI automated tests would be awesome)
- Volunteers for field testing
- Volunteers for translation
- Share this project with people who could help our cause
- Laravel
- jQuery
- SCSS
- MySQL
Open-source, AGPL v3
- Gergő Rostás - Lead developer
- Gáspár Incze - Scrum Master, International team recruiter & coordinator
- We design in the special needs of a quarantine situation and also keeping volunteers motivated
- Nextdoor in available in about 15 languages, we will crowd-source translation to as many language as needed
- Our project is open-source and you can host is as well, so there is no single point of failure.
- Strongest privacy guarantees: no need to give away data of your local community members to a foreign company
| Risk | Potential consequences | Mitigation |
|---|---|---|
| Volunteer goes missing/get sick | Task will not be completed | After 48 hours email reminder, Put back to open requests pool after 72 hours |
| Volunteer with malicious intent | Criminal activity, Portal reputation loss | FB+phone or email+phone verification Public profile: Name, Photo, Address |
| Help requestor abandons the portal/request | Unknown state of request, frustration for volunteers, damage helpful intent towards others in need | After 24 hours the request is marked as completed. |
| Volunteer overload | - | Volunteer manages his/her own workload by taking as many tasks as s/he can handle, Can make profile inactive |
| No volunteer found in area | Demotivating for users | TO BE DEVELOPED |
| Registration to remote area | Fake, phishing or irrelevant requests | Admin selects the available (served) postcodes upon system install |
More details here: https://hackmd.io/Tm7phLAWQCyaRnKq62eILw
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