We want to create an open-source charity platform, in which the transparency removes the chances of misuse of the donated funds, both by campaign organizers and by the internal team of the donation platform.
What has been done already
17
members of the Association
100+
meetings held
1000+
hours invested
Organized our work (Discord, Drive, GitHub, Ora.pm, splitting into teams).
Choice of logo and design.
A non-profit organization as well as a trademark "Podkrepi BG" was registered.
Partnered for free hosting services with Superhosting and ICN.bg.
For now we utilise the following means of self-sufficiency - yearly membership fee, individual and corporate donations for the association, potentially we're thinking of applying for a funding program, but that's for the long-term plan.
Opened a donations account in UniCredit Bulbank IBAN: BG66 UNCR 7000 1524 3490 32 with holder Association Podkrepi BG.
Held a series of meetings with NGO representatives to understand better and define the problem which we have to solve.
Wrote up 270 user stories and chose the path for achieving a Minimum Lovable Product.
We have active teams working on the frontend and on the key modules for creating campaigns and handling payments.
We united around using a microservice architecture, so that more people with different technology backgrounds can be involved.
Birth of the idea of building a donation platform by volunteers.
November 2020
Creating Discord server for the Project.
December 2020
Distribution by expert areas and selection of leads.
December 2020
Preparation of 270 User Stories as the basis for the platform.
February 2021
Registration of the association.
March 2021
Start project's information site.
April 2021
Start the activity of other main teams.
May 2021
Choosing a business model for self-support of the platform
September 2021
Two dev hackathons boosting up the development productivity.
April 2021
Impementing the base functinality for creating campaigns, donation, user registration and the needed operations with base entities of the platform.
Augustт 2022
Launch of a beta version of the platform.
November 2022
Official launch of version 1.0 of the platform.
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