Fireboard App
What problem are we trying to solve?
The Austin Fire Department has over 50 stations and hundreds of firefighters and staff. Every day, the Fire Battalion Chiefs take about an hour and half each to manage their battalion locations by strategizing staff schedules (leaves - sick, vacations, etc.). If they are unable to fill their battalion, they coordinate with other Battalion Chiefs.
So we're helping them convert a shift board (an actual whiteboard with magnets!) to a web-app which integrates with AFD’s existing databases.
Who will benefit (directly and indirectly) from this project?
Austin Fire Department and everyone who benefits from them.
What help is needed at this time?
We need help building out the prototype in time for Hack for Change! We've got a framework put together and Git here and deployed here.
We need help building out various features:
- input validation
- svae state functionality
- export functionality (being able to export a CSV or something like that)
- sorting and searching
- communication functionality (being able to email to a
How can we contact you outside of Github?
Get at us on the Open Austin Slack channel: p-fireboard