2SLGBTQ+ Project

Posted on Sunday, July 31st, 2022

Client	Charlie Dazé
Professor(s)	Leanne Seaward, David Lindsay
Program	Computer Engineering Technology – Computing Science
Students	Huy Vo (Team Lead) Yitao Cui Doug Trombley Keshav Sandhu Jay Ahir Ghaith Ali

Project Description:

The 2SLGBTQ+ is a collective term that refers to two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer. As this movement gains momentum and more resources are becoming available for 2SLGBTQ+ members and ideas change. There becomes a need not only for resources but also for ways to connect people in need with these resources. In addition, over the past few decades, various 2SLGBTQ+ organizations in the world have been founded in order to provide guidance and informative resources.

Similarly, There have been several organizations in the Ottawa area which are helping the community but unfortunately not many are aware of it, or they are run at a small scale. These organizations are operated independently and do not have a uniform platform to advertise their services and events. Due to several reasons such as some organizations do not have enough funds and technical expertise to support advertising their services on websites, applications, newspapers, and advertisements on the radio. The challenges are humongous and to overcome these challenges. Our client, Charlie Dazé from the TenOaks project organization, wants to create an online platform to help the 2SLGBTQ+ community. We as a team come up with a solution for hosting the website 2SLGBTQ+. The website requirements from the client are:

● Be able to store, and display information and services of different organizations in the Ottawa area.
● Be able to provide a secure website to promote 2SLGBTQ+ content.
● Be able to use the website publicly without any cost.
● Be able to provide contact information of the organizations.
● Be able to provide an interface for changing data later after the site is deployed.

Once implemented, the 2SLGBTQ+ Website will provide everyone, especially those in the 2SLGBTQ+ community, with easy and quick access to 2SLGBTQ+ resources and the contact information of 2SLGBTQ+ organizations based in Ottawa. As a result, more people will receive the appropriate and necessary help they need. Although this project is focused on the Ottawa region only, anyone on the Internet can view the website and read the resources uploaded. This will contribute to a more open and diverse world between communities. The scope of this project is the design, research, information gathering from different organizations, product creation, database build-up and connection, front-end coding, database creation, version control system, testing, admin control page coding, documentation of all parts, list of all test cases, and admin operation guide.

While researching, planning, and working for the website we learned a lot about the community. We learned terminology, organization, resources, and events happening around the Ottawa area.

On a professional level, we learned the importance of time, teamwork, communication, and commitment required to work in a real-world working environment. We also learned backend programming mainly database, password hashing, website security, and UI fundamentals of making websites.