Community Services Coordinator

Information

Community Services Coordinator was written by Philip M. White. Designed for universities, this web application helps a community to become more self-sustaining, allowing its members to offer various skills and services to other community members at supposedly reduced prices and a higher level of trust. These are the six main aspects of the program:

1. the administrator configures the possible skills and services that community members can offer, as well as set various software parameters to customize the installation;
2. a person registers as a community member and provides contact information, provided that registration is allowed by the administrator and provided that membership is confirmed by a common e-mail address host;
3. the member offers skills and services to other community members, setting his or her own price for every service.
4. a potential client finds community members who are willing competently perform a desired service for a specified cost;
5. the client contacts a potential service provider via member information (phone number, instant messenger, etc.) stored in the program database and visible only to community members;
6. upon completion of the service, the client rates the provider, providing valuable information to future clients.

Community Services Coordinator was conceptualized and designed with Craigslist in mind—simple software that effectively fulfills a social need. Community Services Coordinator tries to be fully compliant with the XHTML 1.0 Strict specification, providing great accessibility on numerous platforms.

Every university (or other community) is encouraged to implement this on their computer network.

Would you like to see how this software looks? View the screenshots.

Known installations

• Comet Cartel—the "reference" installation for the students of The University of Texas at Dallas. All new features are introduced and ironed out here.

Download

The latest public version of Community Services Coordinator is 1.0 alpha. Download it and verify its GPG signature.

This version (1.0 alpha) is very dated. Comet Cartel runs a much newer and improved version, but since I keep making major and minor changes to it, I don't feel ready to make a new public release, despite the fact that it fixes many bugs. If you want the newer version, contact me and I'll be persuaded to release it.

To implement this software, you must have PHP 4 or higher and PostgreSQL 7 or higher installed.

Support

Please go to this software's SourceForge project page and file a support request. It will be promptly resolved.