LVC-1 London Vegan Coders Website - v.1

Trello Board - https://trello.com/b/JRAud7oV/lvc-1-vegan-coders

Scope:

• An online presence for the London Vegan Coders group.
• A page to flesh out member profiles, to help get to know each other, update our interests etc
• A shared blog to provide a platform for members to write content and practice written expression. A good spot to track lessons learned through different tasks or to write about progress in general through more technical posts
• A space, and a project to help each other out through collaboration, skill sharing and first go at working as an organised team online (at least until the pandemic is over)
• (This is a first iteration of the site, with more functionality to be added in future)

Key Elements:

• Pages to include:
  • Home page - What the group is for + cards showing basic details of team members
  • Blog section - to host posts by LVC members
  • Individual Profile Pages - Auto-populated profile page for each LVC member joining the dev team
• User Authentication (Registration, login, password retrieval/reset, authorisation)
• Blog engine (third party or custom made)
  • Will include date, title, author(s), content (possibly marked-up?), tags
• (Hosted) DB for storing bio details, blog posts
• Email service for account authorisations (e.g. SendGrid)
• Bootstrap/React front-end
• Ruby-On-Rails Backend

Functionality:

• Each member has their own auto-generated profile page
• Each member can edit their own bio/details
  • Can include personal information like name, location, birthday, bio, photo etc. as well as more technical info such as tech stack, preferred OS etc.
• A user’s profile page will list the blog posts they’ve written
• LVC members can write up posts to upload to the site. Exact process to be determined, suggestions below:
  • Markdown files stored in GitHub repo and periodically pulled by application
  • Developing a simple CRM to upload and store entries in a database of sorts
  • [both the above would require some form of text/markdown parser to format and stylise correctly]

Secondary Functionality (i.e. “nice to have” but not necessary for a first iteration)

• User Authentication
  • Registration - LVC members can register to the site by creating an account and using a confirmation code shared on the Slack group (prevents anyone signing up - alternatively can have it so that anyone can register but admins can give LVC members the right privileges to post and make changes)
  • Account Verification (Tokens)
  • Login
  • Profile Edits
  • Account Deletion
  • Password Reset
  • Forgot Password
• Emails sent to inform users of key updates to account and to verify account
• Users can search for posts via a search bar through terms covering titles, author, tags and content