Project Organization

Functional Sections

Basics

• User Registration
  • Open issues:
    • Who is allowed to register?
    • Who is allowed to approve registration?
    • What user types are needed? Fosters, volunteers, leaders, etc.
    • What info is required for each user type?
• Google Integration
  • Events must be pulled from Google Calendar and kept in sync with calendar
  • Basic event signups for registered users
  • Open issues:
    • Automatically register Google Apps team members?
    • Use of Google Calendar API
    • Who is master calendar? App or Google?
    • Using Google as login
• RescueGroups Integration
  • Various data pushed to and pulled from RescueGroups HTTP API
  • Open issues:
    • Unique ID for database sync - animals and contacts
    • Use of API with private data - not done previously

Volunteer Use

• Event signups - priority
• Syncing family members and groups
  • Especially important for minor volunteers
• Shift tracking for various teams
  • Especially important for digital teams such as Adopt-line
  • Does not need to be robust initially
• What other functions are needed for volunteers?

Foster Use

• All fosters are also considered volunteers
• Syncing different members of foster family together
• Uploading photos of foster dogs
• Signing up dogs for events, with transport needs - priority

Automation Tasks

• Automatic adoption follow up emails - priority
  • Use adoption date in RescueGroups
• Automatic reminders for event signups
  • Can be reviewed by leadership beforehand to add details
  • Important feature in future mobile apps

Medical

• Tracking of routine items such as heartworm preventative and vaccines
• Quick overview of pets missing medical items with options to email reminders or ask for updates
  • Also alert event leader of dogs attending an event missing things to remind in person or give meds
• Statistical analysis of cost vs fundraising and fees - not a priority