emergencypetmatcher

EPM is a Python web application built in Django for reuniting lost and found pets as a collaborative effort during mass emergency events. EPM is designed to help spread lost/found pet postings, as users can easily sign up using Facebook/Twitter and share them easily. With the power of the crowd, people can log in, report lost/found pets, propose matches using a simple matching interface, and vote up/down on those matches to increase likelihood of successful matches. When enough votes have been cast on a pet match, emails are sent out to original lost/found pet contacts encouraging them to speak with each other to determine whether the match is successful.

##Requirements

1. Python 2.7
2. VirtualEnv

##Setup

1. First, clone this repo locally.
2. Run virtualenv . in the project folder.
3. Run pip install -r requirements.txt and ensure that all modules are properly installed.
4. Run python manage.py migrate to run migrations for the database.
5. To create test pet data, just run python fixture.py setup to see pet reports, matches, and user profiles generated at random.
6. In order to properly run EPM, you must fill out email account settings and social auth settings in order for your EPM instance to properly send emails and to authenticate Facebook/Twitter accounts, respectively. Fill out the social_auth_settings.py and email_settings.py under project/project.
7. Finally, run python manage.py runserver to start the development server and go to localhost:8000 to see the front page of EPM.
8. If you want to create example pet data to display, just run python fixture.py setup on the project directory to launch the fixture script that will create pet reports, matches, and users to the database.