This repo contains the code for allReady, an open-source solution focused on increasing awareness, efficiency and impact of preparedness campaigns as they are delivered by humanitarian and disaster response organizations in local communities.
##Upcoming v1.0 Release We are on the path to our first production v1.0 release in December 2016! We are tracking requirements in our December Milestone and currently directing efforts to closing out issues in the interim October Milestone starting with P1-P3 priority items that are currently being triaged and tagged.
More info to come after our standups in late September
##Project overview allReady is focused on increasing awareness, efficiency and impact of preparedness campaigns delivered by humanitarian and disaster response organizations in local communities. As community preparedness and resliency increases, the potential for impactful disasters (both large and small) is greatly decreased. Though not as visible or emotionally salient as saving children from a burning building, preparedness activities like ensuring working smoke detectors in a community, follows the industry rule of thumb where an hour or dollar spent before a disaster is worth 15-30 afterwards. The goal of allReady hinges on growing awareness of, and engaging communities and their volunteers in preparedness campaigns, and more aspirationally, to "put disaster response out of business" by preparing communities to be reslient to inevitable disasters.
To learn more about the need for allReady, the technologies involved and how the app came together, view the project information and blog post on the Humanitarian Toolbox website and watch the In the Code video series:
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XVRfcSej1l0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>The allReady project was jumpstarted by volunteers at Microsoft and has been turned over to Humanitarian Toolbox to be maintained and improved by the technical community at large and ultimately deployed in support of organizations delivering preparedness campaigns everywhere.
The initial launch of development for allReady started on 7/20/2015 during the Visual Studio 2015 release event.
##How you can help To help make improvements to this project, you can just clone this repository and start coding, testing, and/or designing.
Important Before jumping in, please review the solution architecture and instructions below to get started. It contains critical information on how to configure the project to run locally and optionally deploy AllReady to Azure.
Also we have a guide on setting up git for open source projects like allReady that can help you get started making contributions. You can find the guide in our docs folder and it also reference a number of blog posts written with additional information on contributing to projects like ours.
Thank you for considering supporting this open source project for humanitarian support.
##Upcoming Code-A-Thons We're excited to have a number of code-a-thons in the coming months where contributors new and old can get together and contribute to allReady.
Monday, December 5th 2016 (5:00pm - 8:00pm)
Brighton, UK
Evening code-a-thon by employees of Madgex Ltd
Saturday, December 10th 2016 (8:30am - 4:30pm)
London, Ontario, Canada
London .NET Developers is hosting another full day Humanitarian Toolbox Hackathon. Sign up at meetup.com
Monday, January 16th 2017 - Tuesday, January 17th 2017
London, UK
Join Richard Campbell and Bill Wagner at the NDC London Humanitarian Toolbox 2-day workshop. Sign up at ndc-london.com