VolunteerBoard

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  Dashboard

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Inspiration

When I wanted to start volunteering, I found it difficult to find opportunites and wished they could all be in one spot. That is why I thought a place where people can collectively post their volunteering events and people can sign up for those would be a good idea. I also researched that for the past few years there has been a decline in volunteering. I though this would be a good way to tackle all of the UN issues.

What it does

• Allows the creation and posting of events (Name, Description and details, Image, Date, etc.)
• Events can have a participant limit
• Users can see in their recommendations feed upcoming events that are happening and sign up for them
• Users can also see in their upcoming events feed the events they have signed up for, their dates etc.

How I built it

I used html and css for the front-end and java server pages for the backend. To store data I used an oracle database and to retrieve it JDBC.

Challenges I ran into

• Lot of issues with formatting
• Time management
• Exceptions and errors with jsp and sql - both I have very limited experience with.

What I learned

• How to store images into a database and then retrieve them and display them accordingly

What's next for VolunteerBoard

• Cleaning up the front-end
• Fixing bugs with displaying content
• Adding filtering options (based on what type of volunteering you want to do)
• Ordering events by date

Built With

• css3
• html5
• java
• jdbc
• tomcat