2017 Coding for Community

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Trenton Business Hub
Allain Dollete

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Municipal Need
 Municipality
 Trenton, NJ (Mercer)
 Need Statement
 The City does not currently have a portal to provide information to people
who are looking to open businesses or develop property. This puts Trenton at
a disadvantage compared to other communities who provide easy to access
business and development related information. Providing a business and
developer portal will make the City more helpful to the business and
developer community, help businesses and developments start faster, and help
reduce the number of failed businesses and development.

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Team’s Solution
 Create a web application with a content management system where
Trenton Officials can post documents seamlessly for potential
entrepreneurs to view without having to change the code base.

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How The Solution Works
 How it works
 Officials can login and do the following
 Create Users with certain privileges
 Update Navigation Bar
 Create new pages/articles with preset layouts
 Ability to manipulate the look and feel of the page/article within the text
editor, and embed photos and videos
 Add news clippings
 Change the order of pages/article/clippings where needed
 Uses Amazon Web Services S3 to store media
 Application: https://trentonbusinesshub.herokuapp.com/
 GitHub: https://github.com/jdollete/trenton-business-portal

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Impact
 Short-Term
 Easier access to information for potential entrepreneurs, which could lead to
having their businesses open faster
 Long-Term
 Influence more business to open in the city of Trenton, NJ

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Originality
 The most popular Content Management System that I have seen used is
WordPress with PHP as part their main tech stack, I have decided to use
a Ruby on Rails application that uses Camaleon CMS. With that I
created a new theme that was configured and customized to fit the
specific needs as requested by the project stakeholders.
 Third Party Products
 Camaleon Content Management System
 Partially designed using a layout from W3Layouts

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Scalability
 The code base was developed so any community that wishes to use this
business portal could download and deploy onto a hosting site and use
it right away. For now they would have to change the application header
title until I implement it onto the CMS. The community would also
need a hosting platform for their media (i.e. Amazon Web Services S3).
Anyone with Ruby on Rails experience would be able to manipulate the
code base to their liking.

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Usability
 Currently the application has met the MVP (Minimum Viable Product)
as requested
 The application is currently being populated by an official from the city
of Trenton, NJ
 This project will be handed over to Coding for Trenton for future
implementation of requested features
 As said in the waiver, I will do any maintenance work that is needed if
the city decides to move forward and use this application

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Resources
 Content Management System Documentation