ase-1-project (Alumni Portal)

Features:

• Authentication with email verification, change password, forgot password, update profile, delete user.
• Updating user profile by getting data from linkedin on regular basis using cron jobs.
• Staff can send mails to selected alumni.
• Alumni can contact other alumni through message box integrated in our site.
• Anyone can contact the alumni office easily and alumni can mail them through our website.
• Alumni can post the jobs/internships present in their company through our jobs page.
• Events and gallery info.
• Blog to share their expereinces with the community.
• Donations and giving back page to help the students in different ways.
• Additional:
  • Secured with google recaptcha service.
  • Works on both mobile, desktop and all ratio devices.

Technologies

GUI (front-end)	Backend Server
HTML5	Python3 v3.8
CSS3	Django2 v2.2
Javascript	Cron
Bootstrap4 v4.4	Sqlite3(database)
JQuery
AJAX

Libraries used

• django-cleanup
• django-cron
• django-filter
• django-private-chat
• linkedin-api
• pillow
• websockets

Project and environment setup

# Setup environment
mkdir Alumni-portal
cd Alumni-portal
python3 -m venv env
# Activate the environment
source ./env/bin/activate

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/venky012/ase-1-site.git

# Install the requirement of the project in the virtual environment created 
pip install -r requirements.txt

# go to project folder
cd ase-1-site/

# you need two terminals to run our project one for running the django server and other for running the chat server
python manage.py runserver

# in another terminal work on the virtual environment created
python manage.py run_chat_server

registered users(for testing):

• Admin:
  • username: venky
  • password: testpassword
• Alumni:
  • username: venkatesh
  • password: testpassword

Contributors:

• P Venkatesh
• P Sri Ranga
• G ManjuShree
• Abhishek
• M Leela Madhuri