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====== V4E Volunteering for Everyone======


  * Igor Botyan 0378201
  * Camilo Cifuentes 0376999
  * Mihai Iusan 0377037

===== Goal =====

  * Provide information for volunteers worldwide
  * Help organizations to recruit volunteers and share information about them
  * Improve volunteer involving process by making it easier

=== Idea ===

  * Centralize volunteer organizations inside a single place
  * Give people brief information about nearest volunteer activities
  * Give people information about priorities of current volunteer activities
  * Easy way to locate nearest volunteering areas using maps

=== Problems ===

  * It's hard to find all information about volunteer activities in one place because it's spread all over Internet
  * There is no shared repository for volunteering organizations
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=== Solution ===

  * Creating a web application that could be used on all sides of volunteering process
  * Using geolocation tools to show nearest volunteer activities or around the world
  * Provide registration of volunteers to share information about them between organizations
  * Channel of communication between volunteers and organizations

===== Features =====

  * Organizations can register
  * Organizations provide information about volunteer activities
  * Volunteers can search for a volunteer activity
  * Volunteers can contact organizations

===== Design =====

{{:dotnet2011:lut1:classdiagram.png|Class diagram}}
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{{:dotnet2011:lut1:db_model.png|Database model}}

===== Screenshots =====

{{:dotnet2011:lut1:home.png|Home page}}
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{{:dotnet2011:lut1:activities.png|Activities page}}
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{{:dotnet2011:lut1:organizations.png|Organizations page}}
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{{:dotnet2011:lut1:volunteers.png|Volunteers}}
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{{:dotnet2011:lut1:about.png|About page}}

===== Technologies =====

  * The application is based on [[http://www.microsoft.com/net/| .NET Framework]] platform
  * [[http://www.bing.com/maps/| Bing Maps]] for geolocation
  * [[http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/| Microsoft SQL Server]] to store all the information about volunteers, organizations and activities
  * [[http://www.silverlight.net/| Microsoft Silverlight]] for outstanding user interface

===== Implementation process =====

//The project is hosted in [[http://code.google.com/p/volunteering4everyone/|Google Code]]. You can checkout source code [[http://code.google.com/p/volunteering4everyone/source/checkout|from here]]//

=== List of increments ===

  - 24.01.2011, First presentation slides, [[http://code.google.com/p/volunteering4everyone/source/detail?r=7|revision 7]]
  - 25.01.2011, User interface sketches, business classes, managing of pushpins in Bing Maps [[http://code.google.com/p/volunteering4everyone/source/detail?r=20|revision 20]]
  - 26.01.2011, Classes for data store, database modeling, initial version of UI, integration of Bing Maps, [[http://code.google.com/p/volunteering4everyone/source/detail?r=24|revision 24]]
  - 27.01.2011, Business logic classes, static version of UI [[http://code.google.com/p/volunteering4everyone/source/detail?r=32|revision 32]]
  - 28.01.2011, Final steps of integration, dynamic version of UI, final presentation slides, [[http://code.google.com/p/volunteering4everyone/source/list|last revision]]

===== Improvements =====

  * RSS feeds
  * Mobile application
  * Registration of organizations
  * Registration of new volunteer activities
  * Internal messaging system
  
===== Links =====

  * [[http://imaginecup.com/about/Theme|Imagine Cup 2011 theme list]]

===== Project artifacts =====
=== Presentation Slides ===

  * {{:dotnet2011:lut1:imagine_cup.pptx|First Presentation Slides (.pptx)}}
  * {{:dotnet2011:lut1:imagine_cup.pdf|First Presentation Slides (.pdf)}}
  * {{:dotnet2011:lut1:imagine_cup_final.pptx|Final Presentation Slides (.pptx)}}
  * {{:dotnet2011:lut1:imagine_cup_final.pdf|Final Presentation Slides (.pdf)}}

=== Project Source code ===
  * {{:dotnet2011:lut1:volunteering4everyone-src.zip|Project source code}}

=== Report ===
  * {{:dotnet2011:lut1:v4e-report.docx| Final Report (.docx) }}
  * {{:dotnet2011:lut1:v4e-report.pdf| Final Report (.pdf) }}

=== Brochure ===
  * {{:dotnet2011:lut1:v4e-brochure.docx| Final Brochure (.docx) }}
  * {{:dotnet2011:lut1:v4e-brochure.pdf| Final Brochure (.pdf) }}