48 lines
3.2 KiB
HTML
48 lines
3.2 KiB
HTML
<app-page-title [title]="pageTitle"></app-page-title>
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<app-application-header [app]="app"></app-application-header>
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<div class="app-info">
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<article class="content">
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<app-application-image [app]="app"></app-application-image>
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<h3>The Client</h3>
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<p>
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In January 2008, a few members of <a href="http://hoffmantown.org" title="Hoffmantown Church">Hoffmantown
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Church</a> in Albuquerque, New Mexico had an idea. The ABC show
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<em><a href="http://abc.go.com/shows/extreme-makeover-home-edition">Extreme Makeover: Home Edition</a></em> had
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just done <a href="http://abc.go.com/shows/extreme-makeover-home-edition/episode-detail/martinez-family/224884"
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title="Martinez Family • Extreme Makeover: Home Edition">a build for a pastor in the “war zone”
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area of town</a>, and this brought attention to Gerald Martinez and the work he had done to help clean up this
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area of town. Through <a href="http://www.loveincabq.org/" title="Love INC of South Albuquerque">Love INC of
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South Albuquerque</a>, they learned that there were many other homes in that area that could use the “Ty
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Pennington touch.” While the goal was not to knock down homes and build new ones, the goal was no less
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extreme. The goal of the “Not So Extreme Makeover: Community Edition” was to help 50 families in 5
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days during spring break week in 2008.
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</p>
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<h3>The Problem</h3>
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<p>
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An effort of this magnitude, happening this quickly, would be unmanageable without software support. It would
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also require a lot of paperwork, and a lot of people processing that paperwork.
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</p>
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<h3>The Solution</h3>
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<p>
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We obtained the domain name and stood up the public website quickly using WordPress, which also allowed the
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coordinators to put content up. We then developed an application (NSXapp) where volunteers could sign up for
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“X Week”, with over 80 different skill, talent, and ability categories. We then created a way to
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identify families and their needs, and a place for people with donations to let us know what they would be. From
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there, we created the ability to begin matching needs with goods (stuff) and abilities (people), organizing the
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stuff into donated trailers and people into teams. During X Week, NSXapp generated schedules and reports that
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were used to help guide the teams as they executed their projects.
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</p>
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<h3>The Epilogue</h3>
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<p>
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From an idea in January, “Not So Extreme Makeover: Community Edition” was able to help 57 families
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by the end of X Week on March 29th. When Love INC saw how NSXapp worked, they expressed an interest in a version
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that would allow them to handle these same areas on an ongoing basis; this became
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<a routerLink="/solutions/tcms" title="The Clearinghouse Management System | Bit Badger Solutions">TCMS</a>.
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Finally, there is a <a href="https://nsx.archive.bitbadger.solutions">snapshot of the NSX public site</a> that
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serves as a record of those three months in 2008.
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</p>
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<app-tech-stack [stack]="app.techStack"></app-tech-stack>
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<app-all-solutions-link></app-all-solutions-link>
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</article>
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</div>
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