Model Reg - the voluntary RC model registry
We're some guys form Switzerland thinking about building some useful measure to counter the "Drone hate" and over-reaching regulation fantasies that are currently going on in some of our governments.
Here's a rough outline of what we're trying to build:
- A web application where people can register themselves (voluntarily, address verification via physical letter)
- Ability to print out a sheet with QR codes to stick to your model (potentially as-a-service for a small fee)
- The data will be fully encrypted. Part of the QR code URL would be a random key to decrypt part of your information (for example phone number and name)
- Access via QR code will also give you the ability to notify the owner if you found a model
This will be targeted towards recular RC clubs / plane owners, RC drone and racing clubs etc, as they do have similar requirements/problems.
The goal is to show to the government bodies that there is already a system in place that satisfies their actual requirements of criminal prosecution IF something happens and give a reasonable alternative to the transponder idea that DJI recently proposed (some of the guys in our civil aviation government body are playing with that idea as well)
We're explicitly building this as free software, so clubs all over the world could run this themselves if they want. For the same reason, we're not using anything too new or fancy, so deployments should be simple and easy, with only a few standard django commands.
Project status
If you see this, you're welcome to help. Not much working as of now.
Contributing
Please talk to Marc Urben or David Vogt if you have an idea. Then the standard rules apply: Fork, send a PR/MR, discuss, and we'll be happy to merge.
Development
We explicitly don't put up a complex deployment, so everyone with a bit of Python knowledge can join in and help (or run the application for themselves).
To get started, install Python (3.5 or newer) and preferrably, create a Virtualenv (not really necessary, if you're into development, we suggest you look into it). Then, run the following commands to get started:
git submodule update --init --recursive
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py createsuperuser
python manage.py runserver
After this, you should have a running development version up and running on http://localhost:8000
There's some test data dumped in the _dev directory. Go have a look there to get some data to play around with.
Specification & Plans
The specification and plans are found at spec/README.md. If you want to help out, see what's missing over there.
Deployment
If you are a club or national body and want to use the software, please google how to properly deploy a Django application. There's a few more things to consider (like using a proper SQL database instead of sqlite3, and using an SSL/TLS certificate. The latter is utterly important, as there will be person-related information transferred on this application that you may not want everybody to see).
ToDo
- Surround the QR-Code with the words "found?" and the translation to the user language, so the finder knows to scan the code
- Use DJango versioning for the fields address and qr-code
- QR-Code so that all old QR-Codes can be matched to the user
- Address, so that the admin can access the verified address and history
- QR-Code rate limiting (the user can only create one new QR-Code per day)
- QR-Code caching to not calculate it every time from scratch
- Validate postal address, during testing and development, send the validation code via email
- OAuth support
- Postal address add verified field
- Send a reminder (to finder and user) email (and finally close the case) if no messages where exchanged for some time.
- Obvious:
- Translations
- Make it pretty
- Create unit tests
License
We intend to keep this all in the open, and thus all the code in here is licensed AGPL, unless stated otherwise. For the full terms, see LICENSE.