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Welcome to the VERA wiki!

VERA stands for Volunteer, Emergency, Response, Alert and is the next generation of my previous iDispatch system. I've started over with the next version of iDispatch many times during the past years (my GitHub is full of various repositories that include it in their names), but never actually finished anything. This has been due to scope creep, changing technologies that I've wanted to try out (iDispatch was also my sandbox case that I used for trying out basically everything new I had to learn) and of course too little time. I'm hoping that by starting from scratch, with a new name and clean table, I can actually get something done that works.

VERA is a computer-aided dispatch system intended to be used by Finnish youth fire fighters during different camp activities, such as the very popular 24h trainings, where they spend one entire day and night at the fire station, responding to simulated calls together with their adult trainers. In other words, this is a very sophisticated toy. However, I've still tried to design it as close to a real-world system where possible, for the sake of learning.