okcandidate-okcontact

OK Candidate is a web app for matching voters with candidates for local offices. OK Candidate is being developed by Code For Hampton Roads, a local Code For America Bridge.

When OK Candidate users take the survey to match them with the politician who best aligns with their views, they are given the option of receiving a notification a few days before the election. Users have the opportunity to opt in for a reminder e-mail, SMS message, or both. OKContact will be the program to notify these users, and provide them with a link to their survey results.

Configuration

To make use of OK Candidate you will need a Twillio and a Mailgun account. Both services provide quality instruction for configuring your account. Information from your account will need to be used as follows:

Constants

• accountSid - Your Twilio Account Sid located on your Twilio Dashboard / Account Summary.

• authToken - Your Twilio Authorization Token also located on your Twilio Dashboard / Account Summary.

• twilioNum - The phone number provided by Twilio formatted as +12345678901 (Country code, Area code, Number).

• api_key - Your Mailgun Secret API Key located on your Mailgun dashboard. It will start with key- and continue with the rest of the alphanumeric characters.

• domain - Your configured Mailgun Sending Domain. It will likely looking something like mg.example.com.

• from_who - Your displayed outgoing e-mail address. The domain will be your configured Mailgun Sending Domain. Example: [email protected] or [email protected].

• userDatabase - Point this to your list of users/surveyors. The database this is currently reading from is set up as an array of objects, with each user being assigned to their own unique object. If you are using a different schema you will likely need to rewrite scanUsersAndContact() to properly iterate over your database. An example of the used database is below.

var users = [
    {
        id:1,
        "surveyId":1,
        "userEmail":"[email protected]",
        "userPhone":"###-###-####" 
    },
    {
        id:2,
        "surveyId":1,
        "userEmail":"[email protected]",
        "userPhone":"(###) ###-####"
    },
];
exports.users = users;

Contributing

This project is, for the most part, complete. Don't fret though, you can still help out your community by Volunteering with your local Code for America Bridge!