newearthmartin / hacktravel

Winding Tree - Hacktravel Lisbon 2019

Organization Portal/Explorer

Application that allows browsing of organizations registered with winding tree

Team Members

• James Glennon, [e-mail], @CyberJimbo
• Martin Massera, [e-mail], @newearthmartin
• Jason Moujaes, [e-mail], @jmoujaes
• Nathan Hamley, [e-mail] @nhamley

Repository

https://github.com/newearthmartin/hacktravel

Description

Running the frontend

Requires node v10.x.x and npm 6.4.1

cd explorer_frontend
nvm use 10.16
npm install
npm run serve

Then access the explorer at http://localhost:8080/

Setting up the scanner

cd explorer_backend
. setup.sh

Requires python3.6 and virtualenv

Running the scanner (development)

In the same explorer_backend folder

. run_dev.sh

Then access the scanner API http://localhost:8000/orgs

Running the scanner in production

For production you need to set up

• the django app via wsgi for the webserver.
• The scanner process in crontab

You can set the scan process every 10 minutes in crontab like this:

*/10 * * * * cd ~/hacktravel/explorer_backend && bash scan.sh

Problem

We need UI tools to easily see information about organizations in WT directory. Currently we only have console tools and require a considerable degree of hackerdom.

Solution

We created tools related to ORG.ID.The ORG.ID explorer let's you:

• see information about an ORG.ID
• see how much Lif they have (for trusting purposes)
• veriy if a message is effectively signed by an organization
• create a new Organization from a JSON URL.

We also are presenting information from the trust service created by another hack-team.

We learned

• To work as an ecosystem, integrating with tools from another hack-team
• To access the WT contracts blockchain from different languages, with helpers like wt-js-libs and calling contracts directly with web3
• Smart contracts, abi, etc
• Truffle, metamask, etc
• WT mission: leveling the playfield to let small companies and independent developers (like us!) access the travel industry players
• Travel industry concepts
• Trust problems in decentralized ecosystem

Extra resources

• link to presentation (and/or)
• link to running instance