Bootcamp

Bootcamp is an open source enterprise social network built with Python using the Django Web Framework.

The project has three basic apps:

Feed (A Twitter-like microblog)
Articles (A collaborative blog)
Question & Answers (A Stack Overflow-like platform)

Feed App

The Feed app has infinite scrolling, activity notifications, live updates for likes and comments, and comment tracking.

Articles App

The Articles app is a basic blog, with articles pagination, tag filtering and draft management.

Question & Answers App

The Q&A app works just like Stack Overflow. You can mark a question as favorite, vote up or vote down answers, accept an answer and so on.

Technology Stack

Python 2.7
Django 1.9.4
Twitter Bootstrap 3
jQuery 2

Installation

1 Install Python 2.7 and Django Framework 1.9

Python 2.7.x https://www.python.org/downloads/

2 Install dependencies

On the project root there is a requirements.pip file. Make sure you install all the required dependencies before running Bootcamp

pip install -U -r requirements.txt

Note: If you are having problems with Pillow installation please take a look on a detailed installation guide at: http://pillow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html

3 Syncdb

Edit your settings.py file with your database information

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
         'ENGINE': 'sql_server.pyodbc',
         'NAME': 'django',
         'USER': 'yourusername',
         'PASSWORD': 'yourpassword',
         'HOST': 'yourserver',
         'PORT': '1433',

         'OPTIONS': {
              'driver': 'ODBC Driver 13 for SQL Server',
         },
     },
}

Then run the database migration

python manage.py migrate

4 Run

python manage.py runserver

Demo

Try Bootcamp now at http://trybootcamp.vitorfs.com.

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