V4E Volunteering for Everyone

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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

The project is hosted in Google Code. You can checkout source code from here

1. 24.01.2011, First presentation slides, revision 7
2. 25.01.2011, User interface sketches, business classes, managing of pushpins in Bing Maps revision 20
3. 26.01.2011, Classes for data store, database modeling, initial version of UI, integration of Bing Maps, revision 24
4. 27.01.2011, Business logic classes, static version of UI revision 32
5. 28.01.2011, Final steps of integration, dynamic version of UI, final presentation slides, last revision

• RSS feeds
• Mobile application
• Registration of organizations
• Registration of new volunteer activities
• Internal messaging system

• Imagine Cup 2011 theme list

• First Presentation Slides (.pptx)
• First Presentation Slides (.pdf)
• Final Presentation Slides (.pptx)
• Final Presentation Slides (.pdf)

• Project source code

• Final Report (.docx)
• Final Report (.pdf)

• Final Brochure (.docx)
• Final Brochure (.pdf)