Phase 1

The City of Vancouver created a Voting Tool for the last municipal elections. This tool was so successful that the city decided to make it an open source project that the world can benefit from. Information Systems Option students at BCIT re-architected the original application so that it is suitable for an open source project on GitHub.

Some of the enhancements made to the original project are support for multiple elections, front-end customization, localization, and back-end management. The project was broken down into separate modules. Each team of 4-5 students worked on a specific module, and the project manager coordinated the various teams. Modern software development best-practices were implemented. We learned how to manage and implement a project catered to different audiences such as a small communities, cities, or nation-wide. We coordinated in sub-teams with different responsibilities as one large unit. Due to the open source nature, wide application, and audience of our application, we considered trade-offs of various technical tools allowing for extensible and change. We learnt how to take an existing idea and build an improved solution.