Empowering books to travel
This application was built for the EDUshifts Now! book. That experiment has now concluded. Feel invited to repurpose this code however you see fit.
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We're a tribe of [EDUshifters][EDUshifts] with a mission: giving books movement, and giving movements books.
Book Voyage is a web-based platform to launch and follow travelling books as they move across the globe.
This document (the README file) is a hub to give you some information about the project. Jump straight to one of the sections below, or just scroll down to find out more.
It all started with a crowdfunding campaign with a simple premise: what if we could distribute our book not in any regular fashion, but as part of a collective game? What if all books would be given to participants at a single conference, each with a final destination attached to it? What if books could travel and connect people?
This sparked us to test the theory of six degrees of separation that would exist between any two people. Instead of simply sharing ideas through a passive book, we wished to create a network of people; a movement united by having shared the ideas in our book.
This concept is a pilot that we would love to involve you in. If proven succesful, let's make sure many more book voyages will happen across the globe!
The application has two components: a front-end based on Angular and a back-end based on Django. Interaction happens through an API. Users only use the front-end; administration is performed through Django.
You will find the instructions for running the back-end here.
You will find the instructions for running the front-end here
All these are but humble suggestions from a recent learner. You can use any major operating system, but a Linux (virtual) machine comes recommended if you want to work on the back-end. If you don't run Linux already, this virtual machine is pretty great. Using a virtual python environment also comes recommended. If you want to focus on Angular development, you may want to work in your native OS rather than a virtual machine to avoid some issues with automatic refreshing.