Sharek

Contribution of the crowd

Sharek is a platform that allows end users to contribute in building any structured text content. It basically started to allow Egyptian people write their own consistution after the uprising against corruption in 2011. A draft for the constitution articles is published allowing Egyptian users to to suggest and support enhancements to the text articles. On August 2012, the contribution platform has been released to the public at http://dostour.eg/sharek/

Installation

Based on django 1.4.1 and uses PostgreSQL as the database engine

Setup on debian/ubuntu dependencies

  sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev python-setuptools git-core gcc \
  curl libpcre3 libpcre3-dev build-essential bash-completion postgresql ipython \
  python python-dev python-setuptools -y 

  sudo easy_install pip  

  sudo pip install django

  sudo pip install django-markitup 

  sudo pip install Markdown

  sudo pip install django-ajax-selects

  sudo apt-get install python-beautifulsoup

  sudo pip install feedparser

  sudo easy_install template_utils

  easy_install django_evolution

  sudo pip install django-markitup

  sudo apt-get install python-psycopg2

  apt-get install python-simplejson ### easy_install simplejson

  sudo apt-get install python-tz

  sudo easy_install humanize

Getting the app up

1. fork the and clone the repo
2. Create the proper database and database user to be used
3. rename the file sharek/settings_local.py.example to sharek/settings_local.py and change all the custom configuration for database, facebook and twitter to your own settings
4. Start the app using under development via:

 ./manage.py runserver 127.0.0.1:8000 --settings=settings

Common problems and errors:

• No module named settings

missing settings.py file in project directory

• FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user "dostory"

Then connecting to postgres has failed.. fix the authentication and verify connectivity using:

 psql -d db_name -U db_user -W