Welcome to the Summit, a forum and micropublishing platform devoted to the discovery of actionable solutions for global challenges.
Our mission is simply to maximize the human potential for collaborative problem-solving and accelerating the realization of a sustainable future on Earth.
Inspired by the Global Issues as presented by the United Nations, these are the most pressing global challenges that we are facing the 21st Century.
- Environmental Sustainability
- Energy Sustainability
- Natural Resource Management
- Water Security
- Food Security
- Peace and Conflict
- Gender Inequality
- Income Inequality
- Racial Inequality
- Global Health
- Global Development
- Human Rights
- Animal Rights
- Governance
- Poverty
- Technology
- Urbanization
- Transportation
- Communication
- Education
The user experience is crafted based on these foundational principles:
- The Summit is an open commons, and therefore all user-generated is freely available for public access and participation.
- All user-generated content is subject to a member rating system in order to create natural self-moderating ecosystems.
- Everything that the user does is seamlessly interwoven on a single page.
Time TBD.
We'll Google Hangout about the specs and run through it for any needed modifications.
Time 12-6pm Great meeting. Marc, Taku, Jeet, and Niels met to discuss 'final' details for the MVP design. Outlined game-mechanics, reputation system, front-end tasks, and back-end tasks.
When: 12pm-6pm EST Where: Mudd Computer Science Lounge
Not a requirement, but we will encourage using the anaconda distribution of python. Please download it here
Anaconda should come with the pip package manager, which you can use to install all of the required packages for developing in an app in Django-MongoDB.
To create a virtual environment in anaconda, first make a new directory called summitProject and change directory to summitProject:
mkdir summit
cd summit
create a virtual environment within summitProject/:
$ conda create -p ./env python=2.7.6 pip ipython
This creates a virtual environment env
in summit
. To activate the virtual environment:
$ source activate ./env
To deactivate:
$ source deactivate
We will be using a Django fork that supports non-relational databases, to install all django-related packages:
$ pip install git+https://github.com/django-nonrel/django@nonrel-1.6-beta
$ pip install git+https://github.com/django-nonrel/djangotoolbox
$ pip install git+https://github.com/django-nonrel/mongodb-engine
Please follow the installation instructions for setting up MongoDB in your system
Now that you have your environment set up, create your own fork on the original git repo. In the summit
directory. Create a file called .gitignore with the following contents:
.Python
env
bin
lib
include
.DS_Store
.pyc
Initialize a local git repo:
$ git init
Connect your local git repo with your forked repo of TheSummit:
$ git remote add https://github.com/<your-username>/TheSummit
This is your own personal fork that you will use to develop. Every time we develop in as a group, we will consolidate our code in the master repository. When developing individually, however, we will use our own fork and own branch.
Fetch the master branch from your remote:
$ git fetch origin master
$ git pull origin master
The git repo files should now be in your local repo. Now make your own branch and switch into it:
$ git branch <my-branch>
$ git checkout <my-branch>
This is your own branch that you will use in conjunction with <my-dev-branch>
(outlined below under Workflow) when developing.
Add the original repo of TheSummit as your the upstream remote:
$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/cosmicBboy/TheSummit
Everytime you want to push changes on your local file to the original repository (we will generally do this as a group), you will have to use the command:
$ git push upstream master
Now that you have everything set up, our workflow will be the following:
- Navigate to your project
- Activate virtual environment:
source activate ./env
$ git checkout <my-dev-branch>
- Develop!
$ git add .
and/or$ git add -u
to stage changed/deleted files$ git commit -m 'commit message'
$ git checkout <my-branch>
$ git pull origin <my-branch>
$ git merge <my-dev-branch>
$ git push origin <my-branch>
- Deactivate virtual environment:
$ source deactivate