AK4848 / Katathon

#Katathon

##General This project is meant to connect together all the coding aficionados that started to meet together (either physically or remotely) to start solving a bunch of pre-selected problems in a competitive and friendly way.

##Local Setup To set up this repo for local viewing/testing, first of all make sure you have NodeJS and NPM installed. once you have cloned the repo, navigate to the root directory in terminal and install the dependencies with: npm install To start the server, type the following two commands one at a time: npm run build npm run start In your browser, navigate to http://localhost:8080/webpack-dev-server to view the site

##Aims and Goals

• create the main site of a community of competitive coding enthusiasts
• practice development skills, including:
  • front-end development
  • back-end development
  • UX design
  • copy writing
  • user profile management
  • mailing
  • APIs integration
• spread computer literacy and involve minorities in the IT industry

##Features

• static pages including content like:
  • who we are
  • our goals
  • how to join us/create your local katathon team
  • useful resources to improve your skills
  • various disclaimers and legal mumbo jumbo to pretend we thought things through on that side
• dynamic pages including:
  • user profiles, including:
    • users listing, searching and filtering
    • generic user info
    • integration with other social platform to share information
    • favoured languages
    • favoured locations among the ones available
    • overall score display
    • badges
    • gravatar and/or github avatar integration
    • new user registration, including:
      • stand alone registration
      • registration using social media APIs
    • referral to invite users
    • notification preferences
    • other preferences
    • disable account feature
    • reactive account feature
    • delete account feature
  • events management, including:
    • integration with CodeWars or other competitive coding sites APIs
    • creation and management of a list of katas for each single event with relative scores
    • check on the solved problems on a single user basis before and after the event to auto-compute scores
    • sending newsletter to registered users
    • sending reminders to registered users
  • loctions management, including
    • locations listing, searching and filtering
    • location rating by registered users according to specific parameters on a 0-10 basis
    • new location submission
    • old location deletion
• newsletter management
  • creation and sending of generic newsletter with tips on competitive coding, next events and more
  • subscribe/unsubscribe database integration
• social media integration with:
  • integration with automated feed for most important social platforms, including:
    • twitter
    • google plus (quite good for SEO, do not complain that you are not using it ;) )
    • linkedin
    • facebook