Site redisign !

[dixpac]

Hi,
First of all nice idea and it is always lovely to see applications that solve real problems :)

That being said, I have some problems with design of the site:

• it looks poorly designed and not very professional
• it is too dark
• it is hard to understand what the site is and how exactly works

I would love to see it more brighter, warmer, more easy to understand and use :)

This is just my opinion :), if you are interested in redesign maybe it would be nice to open issue on redesign, so that contributors can try to make site looks a bit more nicer !

[natachaS]

Is this project even accepting any pull requests ? Anyone actively managing it ?

[piecedigital]

I came to the project in hopes of finding one that I found deep meaning. Unfortunately it appears abandoned.

[ghost]

It does appear to be abandoned. I came here for the same reason. Maybe we could revive it.

[theBenForce]

I came here for the same reason as well. Has anyone tried to update this project or start something similar?

[heyitscoco]

Same thought.

[natachaS]

@Bula @cheyner @marcweil Are you willing to transfer ownership of this org to me ? I have a handful of volunteer willing to help this grow and would be willing to maintain it.

[marcweil]

@natachaS Well this project is a blast from the past! I'm certainly okay giving ownership over, but I'd want at least someone else from the original project team to give a 👍 too. @Bula @ahinz @mdb @salasks @themightychris?

[Bula]

Hi Natacha - would love to see life brought back into Sheltr. It was a wonderful Random Hacks of Kindness hackathon project ( http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/homepage-feature/item/32042-sheltr-app-helps-put-homeless-in-touch-with-services ) ... that had real useful functionality in Philly and a number of other cities. It helped find the closest food or shelter for folks that were helping homeless people. It was then spun off into 6 or 7 other city projects. Another group adopted it for a brief period, but not sure what ever came of their work. Happy to give access over and would love to see how you bring Sheltr to life. @cheyner _ I believe has domain ownership. Feel free to ask me anything if it helps. Cheers, Bula

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[natachaS]

@Bula sounds great ! I'll be glad to help revive the project and check out/merge a few PRs.

[themightychris]

Resource Awareness Philly was a project that came out of Code for Philly's 2015 sustainability hackathon with similar aims of helping find resources for homeless/those in need: https://codeforphilly.org/projects/resource_access_for_philly

The specific use case of "find the nearest shelter" proved to be a non-starter in Philly as the city policy is for everyone to go to a central intake facility and get assigned to a shelter. If we direct people to go directly to a shelter they'll get turned away and directed to central intake

Code for Philly would be happy to take custody of the org/repo and administer access going forward to ensure continuity. It's great that you have interest @natachaS but we've seen projects get transferred to newly-interested individuals before and they don't always stick with it, so we try to find ways to provide sustainable institutional ownership of project assets across waves of volunteers

[natachaS]

I totally agree @themightychris and will follow your lead then !

[Bula]

Added you to the repo nonetheless.

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