Kevin Worth
2014-08-14 19:30:05 UTC
About 5 years ago I volunteered to help our local SPCA (Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) build a computerized system for tracking
hours that their volunteers spent. This an important part of the volunteer
coordinator's job, as there are hours/year requirements for volunteers,
awards given out annually, etc. Prior to that they were using a paper
binder with sign-in sheets, and adding up everything by hand at the end of
the month. With about 1000 active volunteers, this was no small task, and
seemed like a place computerization would be an amazing help. I wrote up a
simple system in Rails (which I had spent a fair amount of hobby time with)
and it's been running there ever since.
Today, there are about 67,000 "hours" entries in the database, about about
3,000 volunteers (1/3 of them active), and the system is a little slower
than it ought to be (my original testing was with tens of records, since
there was no existing database to import). Rather than try to update and
re-learn ruby and rails, I opted to give a try porting the essential parts
of the system to Python using bottle.py
The result of my work is now up at https://github.com/vets/vets and
licensed under MIT.
I'm at a point where things are about functionally complete and I'd love to
hear feedback from anyone willing to take the time to take a look at it.
It's a generic enough system that I could see other non-profit
organizations (who often have much/any money available to spend on
commercial software that can track things like this) being interesting in
this.
Things I'm not that great at, which are incidentally the main things this
project uses:
* Python
* bottle.py
* SQL
* HTML/CSS
This is a hobby project for me (I'm a C programmer by day) so I am probably
taking a naive approach in most cases, but in some cases I know that when I
re-deploy this version of the system, it's likely to sit for another 5+
years.
So as a result I'm open to suggestions/feedback for most anything people
are willing to give. If not, thanks for taking the time to read :)
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Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) build a computerized system for tracking
hours that their volunteers spent. This an important part of the volunteer
coordinator's job, as there are hours/year requirements for volunteers,
awards given out annually, etc. Prior to that they were using a paper
binder with sign-in sheets, and adding up everything by hand at the end of
the month. With about 1000 active volunteers, this was no small task, and
seemed like a place computerization would be an amazing help. I wrote up a
simple system in Rails (which I had spent a fair amount of hobby time with)
and it's been running there ever since.
Today, there are about 67,000 "hours" entries in the database, about about
3,000 volunteers (1/3 of them active), and the system is a little slower
than it ought to be (my original testing was with tens of records, since
there was no existing database to import). Rather than try to update and
re-learn ruby and rails, I opted to give a try porting the essential parts
of the system to Python using bottle.py
The result of my work is now up at https://github.com/vets/vets and
licensed under MIT.
I'm at a point where things are about functionally complete and I'd love to
hear feedback from anyone willing to take the time to take a look at it.
It's a generic enough system that I could see other non-profit
organizations (who often have much/any money available to spend on
commercial software that can track things like this) being interesting in
this.
Things I'm not that great at, which are incidentally the main things this
project uses:
* Python
* bottle.py
* SQL
* HTML/CSS
This is a hobby project for me (I'm a C programmer by day) so I am probably
taking a naive approach in most cases, but in some cases I know that when I
re-deploy this version of the system, it's likely to sit for another 5+
years.
So as a result I'm open to suggestions/feedback for most anything people
are willing to give. If not, thanks for taking the time to read :)
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