Project overview

Gatherspiel is a non commercial open source platform to promote third places. As a starting point, the project has a site specific for board games in the Washington, DC area, https://dmvboardgames.com/.

The platform is actively looking for contributors. See the following documentation to setup a development environment and get started here

Useful links to get started

• Contribution guidelines
• List of issues recommended for first time contributors: here

In progress features

• Support for creating groups and events
• User accounts

Repos

• api-testing: Automated testing of API endpoints.
• backend: Backend APIs.
• database: Scripts related to the database.
• development: Documentation and scripts for development.
• DMVBoardGames: Website for in person board game events in the DC area. It will use the backend APIs of this project.
• main-site: Code for gatherspiel.com.

Tech notes

Tech stack

• Vanilla JavaScript with a custom framework
• Vanilla CSS
• PostgreSQL
• Java

For more details, see the tech strategy page