Community Board Voting and Dashboard
TLDR: I built a little webapp that lets community boar members, identified via their SMS number, vote durring community board sessions. The results are shown on a big screen with countdown clock for speaker, queue, etc.
Video of Current voting system
Link to Youtube of Current voting, time 2:13:13
The current voting system is hard to manage with some participants remote and some in person, counting ~50 people is not easy.
Text Voting
- Everyone can text their vote (‘Yes’,’No’,’Abstain’ , ‘Cause’)
- Use SMS so its easier to use for the less tech savy vs web app
- SMS also can serve as identification and minor authentication of users
- Dashboard shows countdown timer, queue to talk, etc.
Images of Voting System
Countdown clock
Text to Vote
Show Results
GITHUB Link
https://github.com/Bellspringsteen/community_board_dashboard
Other
- hosting on Lambda, seems like a good fit for the usage pattern of no interaction for majority of the month and then a few calls.
- using S3 as store, db seems overkill
- should be very very cheap, twilio is free to respond to text, lambda and s3, should be pennies per month if above the free tier.
Whats next?
- See how it goes November 6th
- Convert front end to React?
- Create a admin system?
- Web App for voting if need be?