InShelter is an easy to use web application allowing homeless users to connect with shelters and remotely reserve a place to sleep.
Inshelter provides our brothers and sisters experiencing homelessness with individually tailored and immediate connections to resources that can assist them in their unique circumstance.
We believe that the only way to effectively fight homelessness is to value the humanity of every individual. To do this, we want to make as much information available to them as possible, while making the process of utilizing shelter services as easy as possible.
Clients in need can access the website (insert domain name here) via a mobile phone browser or library computer in order to register for the service, which will allow them to reserve beds at nearby registered shelters.
Once a client is registered, InShelter provides information to them on shelters they qualify for according to gender, financial situation, etc. These available shelters are then ranked by distance from the client and relevant address and identifying information is provided.
To participate, shelters must register as well. Shelters have their own registration form at (insert domain name here) which makes them visible to nearby clients and tracks reservations and availability as clients make and drop reservations. Shelters update their capacity and availability as necessary.
- Flask - A Python library that allows us to make SQL queries
- Google Maps API - Used to build distance matrices
- Bootstrap - Used to quickly put together a website that automatically works on mobile
- MySQL - Open Source database environment
This project was created by a team of programmers and innovators for the GlobalHack 6 competition during October 21-23. https://devpost.com/software/hello-2r830j
- Christopher Lucas
- Joseph Gao
- Taylor Watson
- Johnny Peters
- Joao Lopes
- Christian Young
- Zach Wright
- Nikko Koutas
- Flask
- Bootstrap - Licensed under the MIT license.
- Google Maps - Licensed under Google's licensing.
- MySQL - Licensed under GPL.