/WeRise

A community-driven skills-share video-chat platform for facilitating and joining workshops that empowers users to share and build knowledge in virtual communities and aims to foster spaces for equity, mutual aid, and socioeconomic justice.

Primary LanguageJavaScript

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Sharing Knowledge to Build Communities on the Rise

Live Demo (Web-Ready Only)


Community Dashboard Page View

WeRise Community Dashboard

Instant Messaging Chat Page View

WeRise Instant Messaging

User Profile Page View

WeRise User Profile


About

WeRise envisions building a community-driven platform where:

  • We can empower folx with new skills shared through their community that can advance their lives and livelihoods
  • Build new virtual community spaces by sharing knowledge and know-how.
  • Help push movements forward by creating and fostering spaces for equity, mutual aid and socioeconomic justice

How will WeRise realize this vision?:

  • Users will be able to Facilitate Workshops and Register for Workshops on a 1-on-1 basis or in Small Groups
  • Workshops can embrace any topic, interest or subject a user would like to share with the WeRise community.
  • Users will be able to create connections based on shared interests, experiences and destinations and build a virtual community for themselves

WeRise Primary Features:

  • Virtual Workshops conducted using VideoChat with In-Video Messaging & Screen-sharing
  • Workshop Feed with a Feature-Rich Search Engine for Discovering and Registering for Workshops
  • User Profiles for Engaging other Users and Managing Workshops Being Facilitated
  • User Real-time Communication with In-App Instant Messaging

Technical Base

WeRise is built using a tech stack composed of PostgreSQL, Firebase's Firestore NoSQL Cloud Database, Express, NodeJS and React. Redux Toolkit was leveraged for application state management. Material-UI was implemented as the base for shaping the UI/UX design framework.

Future Specifications

  • (Push) Notifications
  • Content Management and Moderation
  • User Reviews, Rewards & Badges
  • User Subscriptions to Workshop Facilitators
  • User-Defined Interest Categories for Customized Default Feed
  • Feature Facilitating Donations to Facilitators and Users