Volunteer Management System

Origin

Systers has many volunteers and potential volunteers that offer their skills, time and commitment to our vision. However, there is no system in place to track volunteers, their hours, and run reports. Many volunteers manually track and report their volunteer hours with Systers/AnitaB.org to their employers. The employers, in turn, may provide an incentive and often times match their hours volunteering with a monetary donation to the organization.

Project Summary

Volunteer Management System (VMS) will manage volunteer contact information, track hours and events they worked and providing reporting functionality at the minimum functional level.

Historical Documentation

• Review the original VMS Requirements Document
• Review the previous work completed during GSoC 2018 by Anjali Dhanuka & Monal Shadi.

Repo Links

• VMS GitHub Repo
• VMS Website

Project ideas

Backend + Frontend (full features)

Idea	Description
Unit Testing, Integration Testing
Upgrade Python, Upgrade Django	Porting to Django 2.0
Searches	Search volunteer based on region/city, job/task. Search jobs based on region/city.
Validations	Validate location, organizations, phone numbers.
Volunteer Reports	Generate a pdf copy of the report.
Event Based App	Switch to Event based structure from shift based
Third party apps authentication	Various other social logins - Github, Twitter, LinkedIn

Frontend Only

Idea	Description
Check-in Hours	Move the "check-in" hours down a level. It should not be on the top level of navigation.
"My Events"	Needs to be changed to "Upcoming Events" instead. Include a toggle button to show the events the user has signed up for.

• Feel free to brainstorm any additional ideas from our enhancements.
• We would be happy to have your suggestions to enhance VMS.

Development Environment

Web Development Environment

• Technologies Used: Python, Django, Bootstrap, Selenium
• Difficulty: Intermediate

Communicate with Us on Zulip!

If you have an idea of how to improve VMS, drop us a message in the #vms stream to discuss it :)