BoardHood is an application developed as a final year project (FYP) in Information Systems, the documentation and presentation can be found here.

Basically, it is a mobile application for people to discuss about topics of interest. More basically yet, it's a forum, but you can choose to follow only those topics that you are interested in.

The client has been developed in Android and published in the Google Play marketplace.

• Deployed in the AWS as a two-tier application.
• Developed in Python with Flask Framework.
• The web server is nginx and the application server is uWSGI.
• The database is PostgreSQL with PostGIS extension.
• memcached is used for storing authentication tokens.
• Amazon S3 was used for storing user avatars.
• The server side is a JSON RESTful API.
• Munin was used for monitoring the server.
• The installation and configuration of all software stack above was done with a Fabric script.
• The Python application was packaged with Distribute and deployed with Fabric.
• The client application was developed for Android.

Copyright (c) 2012 Maycon Bordin

Licensed under the MIT License (MIT)