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Pitch

Pitch is a platform for expressing and evaluating the issues facing university communities. Too often, available streams are bloated or ephemeral. Ideas arise and quickly disappear. Facebook groups are limited to already-established communities. Official outlets do not provide a fast enough turnaround and in large part discourage student collaboration and action. Pitch aims to improve this process and make idea-sharing a fun and simple activity!

Installation

After cloning the repository and changing into the resulting directory:

$ virtualenv venv
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ flask run

then navigate to 'localhost:5000' in a web browser and voila! (the git repository has an example database contained within it). Feel free to make an account and add a pitch!

What's to come

Filter by category
Public profiles
Pitch status updates
??? Pitch discussions ???
More campuses!
Better responsive design

What's already there

Built using just html, css, flask, (a little jquery oops), and a sqlite database:

Make a pitch
Delete pitches
Bump pitches
Account creation
Pitches sorted by bump count

Regrets?

In retrospect, perhaps we should have used a UI framework... In the future, the webapp will have to be hosted on a public domain, but we were too focused on building to get there.

Thanks to everyone at Binghamton University for the great venue and the assistance! Go Black Bears!!!!!