Systers has many volunteers that offer their skills, time, and commitment to our vision and projects. The Volunteer Management System (VMS) will be useful for volunteer coordinators, volunteer sign-up, tracking hours, and reporting.

This project is under active development.

VMS is live here.

If you are an Outreachy Applicant, start with reading this.

The VMS will be developed in phases. The initial implementation will track volunteers' contact information, enable administrators to track volunteer hours, and allow reporting of useful information.

The requirements document gives additional detail on the project's scope.

The VMS project uses the Django web framework and Python.

To get started, read the Installation Guide.

If you face some issues while installing and making VMS up in your local, have a look at issues labelled as While Setting up VMS.

If you wish to view a sneak peek of the Systers VMS, you may use Docker to preview the VMS. Note: The following Docker configuration is not intended to be run in production at the moment. It may be configured to do so in the future.

1. Install Docker. Follow the installation steps for your specific operating system:
   • Docker runs natively on a Linux-based system.
   • For Windows and Mac OS X, you should follow instructions for installing boot2docker which also installs VirtualBox.
2. Install docker-compose. Note: fig has been deprecated. Docker-compose replaces fig.
3. Create a new directory on your local system.
4. Enter git clone git@github.com:systers/vms.git to clone the Systers VMS repository. After the clone is done, change directory (cd) to the vms directory.
5. Run docker-compose build. This pulls the Docker images required to run the project and installs the necessary dependencies.
6. Run docker run -e SECRET_KEY=foobarbaz vms_web
7. Run docker-compose run web python vms/manage.py migrate.
8. Run docker-compose run web python vms/manage.py cities_light for downloading and importing data for django-cities-light.
9. Optional: Run docker-compose run web python vms/manage.py createsuperuser if you wish to create a superuser to access the admin panel.
10. Run docker-compose up to start the webserver for the Django Systers VMS project.
11. Systers VMS should be running on port 8000.
    • If you are on Linux, enter http://0.0.0.0:8000 in your browser.
    • If you are using boot2docker on Windows or Mac OS X, enter http://192.168.59.103:8000/ in your browser. If this IP address doesn't work, run boot2docker ip from the command line and replace the previous IP address in the HTTP request with the IP returned by boot2docker.

• Issue Tracker: vms/issues

• Source Code: vms

• Linking pull request to an issue

  When you create a pull request, use closes #id_of_issue or fixes #id_of_issue. It will link the issue with your pull request. It also automatically closes the issue if your pull request gets merged.

User and developer documentation for Systers Portal VMS project is generated using Markdown and available online for convenient reading at VMS Website.

We are pleased to participate in the Google Summer of Code and are grateful for the contributions from our GSoC developers.

• Completed features during GSoC 2016 * Development * Testing
• Completed features during GSoC 2015
• Completed features during GSoC 2014

If you are having issues, please let us know. We have a mailing list located at: systers-dev@systers.org

The best way to connect with the maintainers is through GitHub comments. Feel free to discuss more about an issue by commenting on it or asking questions. We also have Systers Slack channel, you can request an invite here. If there is something you want to discuss privately with the maintainer and you are being hesitant to discuss it on above mediums, then drop an email. For Systers VMS join #vms on Slack.

The project is licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.

A heartfelt thank you to all wonderful contributors of software, guidance, and encouragement.