Mother Reminder is a system for registering mothers, sending them reminds for care, and sending mass messages with pertinent/useful information.

Mother Reminder is build using the RapidSMS platform

• RapidSMS installation
• Python 2.7
• Django 1.3 or later

Fetch the code from the repository; thus:

git clone https://github.com/revence27/mother.git

Initialise and update the submodules:

cd mother git submodule init git submodule update

It is now necessary to initialise the database; thus:

./manager.py syncdb

Some initialisation requires that the Django migration tool, South, be disabled. So run the following command (which runs syncdb again, but with different environment:

env WITHOUT_SOUTH=yes ./manager.py syncdb

At this point, the directory mother contains a working instance of Mother Reminder. To test it, and to development, run:

./manager.py runserver && $BROWSER http://localhost:8080/

To complete the installation procedure by recording the cron files, move the file cron_mother to your system's cron directory. This will require root privileges.

sudo cp cron_mother /etc/cron.d/

The settings.py file would have the variables suitable for communicating from the application to the administrators, for the purpose of reporting errors and the like.