eBhive 🐝

A mentorship & collaboration platform for MMU students and mentors, designed to make it easier to:

• find mentors,
• discover project opportunities,
• form teams, and
• communicate in one place.

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✨ Features

👥 Authentication & Roles

• User registration & login with hashed passwords.
• Two main roles:
  • Student
  • Mentor
• Role-based flows (e.g. student profile vs mentor profile, mentorship requests, etc.).

🎓 Profiles

Student Profile

• Full name, faculty, programme, year, specialization.
• Short bio.
• Profile picture upload.

Mentor Profile

• Full name, academic position, faculty.
• Areas of expertise (up to 3).
• Office location & LinkedIn link.
• Profile picture upload.

📇 Directory

• Browse students & mentors in a single directory.
• Search by name.
• Filter by:
  • Role (student / mentor)
  • Faculty
  • Mentor expertise areas

🧑‍🏫 Mentorship Requests

• Students can send mentorship requests to mentors:
  • Choose mentorship type (FYP, course help, research, etc.).
  • Provide a title and detailed description.
  • Optionally upload supporting documents.
• Mentors can:
  • View incoming requests.
  • Accept or decline with comments.
  • See list of accepted mentees.

🧩 Projects & Opportunities Board

• Create project / opportunity posts (e.g. competitions, FYPs, events, research).
• Optional “Skills required” tags.
• Users can request to join a project.
• Project owner can:
  • View & manage join requests.
  • Accept/reject requests.
  • See current members.
  • Remove members from the project.
• Members get access to the project’s chat space.

💬 Project Chat

• Per-project chat room for all members.
• Messages are grouped under each project.
• Reply threading with limited nesting (up to 3 levels) to keep things readable.
• Inline reply UI with avatars & timestamps.

💭 Discussion Forum

• Create threads under categories like:
  • Find Team
  • Ask for Help
  • Share Resources
  • General Discussion
• Reply with threaded comments (limited depth).
• Upvote / downvote threads with a simple score system.
• “My Threads” view for quick access to your own posts.

🌓 Theming

• Light/dark mode toggle across the app.
• Consistent card-based UI with subtle gradients and shadows.

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🛠 Tech Stack

• Backend: Python, Flask
• Database: SQLite (via SQLAlchemy)
• Auth: Flask-Login + Flask-Bcrypt
• Forms: Flask-WTF / WTForms
• Frontend: HTML, CSS, Jinja2 templates
• Other: File uploads for profile pictures & documents

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🚀 Getting Started

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/eBhive.git
cd eBhive