Table of Contents
V4E Volunteering for Everyone
Goal
Features
Design
Screenshots
Technologies
Implementation process
Improvements
Links
Project artifacts
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
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
Screenshots
Technologies
The application is based on
.NET Framework
platform
Bing Maps
for geolocation
Microsoft SQL Server
to store all the information about volunteers, organizations and activities
Microsoft Silverlight
for outstanding user interface
Implementation process
The project is hosted in
Google Code
. You can checkout source code
from here
List of increments
24.01.2011, First presentation slides,
revision 7
25.01.2011, User interface sketches, business classes, managing of pushpins in Bing Maps
revision 20
26.01.2011, Classes for data store, database modeling, initial version of UI, integration of Bing Maps,
revision 24
27.01.2011, Business logic classes, static version of UI
revision 32
28.01.2011, Final steps of integration, dynamic version of UI, final presentation slides,
last revision
Improvements
RSS feeds
Mobile application
Registration of organizations
Registration of new volunteer activities
Internal messaging system
Links
Imagine Cup 2011 theme list
Project artifacts
Presentation Slides
First Presentation Slides (.pptx)
First Presentation Slides (.pdf)
Final Presentation Slides (.pptx)
Final Presentation Slides (.pdf)
Project Source code
Project source code
Report
Final Report (.docx)
Final Report (.pdf)
Brochure
Final Brochure (.docx)
Final Brochure (.pdf)