Building a open source crowdfudning page / platform

[duttakapil]

We need to build a crowdfunding page similar to our donation page, but on this page we will run campaigns for initiatives that people can support. We will start with a campaign to buy video camera equipment and allocate budget for recording all of our offline meetup talks and publish them online for free.

We can later expand this into a complete crowdfunding platform, and start doing various small and big campaigns for the community. For example, we can have a campaign to support our Teaching Kids Code initiative, or on a small scale, we can have a campaigns to collect money for Food and Beverages for each of our meetups.

We can build this as a open source project that anyone can host on their own platform to do crowdfunding for any campaign or project. To do this, we might need to add integration for multiple payment gateways later on. For now we can just stick with Razorpay.

Features :

• A page to see all the campaigns (crowdfund.coderplex.org ?)
• Show campaign for video recording meetups as the only item in the list for now
• Separate page for videography campaign (./record-meetups ?)
• Title : "Support us to video record all our meetups"
• Description : will share the content later
• Show campaign target goal, and button to make contribution. We'll use Razorpay for the payment, and will add the processing fee (2.36%) to the amount
• Based on all captured transactions, show the progress for each campaign with a progress bar

Future features :

• Ability for admins to create new campaigns directly on the website
• Open create page (crowdfund.coderplex.org/create ?)
• Enter campaign title, description and target amount
• Add pictures