Luminary: End Of Sprint

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What a month it has been, building out a product isn't as easy as it may seem, but we did it and pulled through. For those of you that haven't been following this series what we we are building Luminary

What is Luminary and what problem does it solve?

For a large part of our history women have been under represented, marginalized and have had their voice taken away from them, we've had the great works done by amazing women around us fall on deaf ears or not even come to light, so that's why we're building luminary for the women. To give a women a platform to have their accomplishments and contributions seen and heard.

The sprint in review

First of all I really want to thank everyone that contributed to the project during this sprint cause in it's own way it's been brutal but fun seeing the project take shape, from an idea that was on paper to something that worked but was incomplete to now a project that's complete but breaks from time to time, It wasn’t a perfect or linear process, but we’ve learned a lot from bugs to the miscommunications we found a way to bring it all together. Now, Luminary has become a brainchild for each member of the core team, and a project we’ve all genuinely loved working on.

What's next

For Luminary, it’s only up from here. We have more features planned, such as:

Allowing people to contribute additional information to a nomination
Providing suggestions for users who want to nominate someone who has already been nominated, so the nominee’s data can be auto-filled
Refining the consent workflow and making it more secure
Migrating the website from basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to React, and upgrading the backend to meet better standards

And that’s just the beginning. Hopefully, we’ll have another sprint soon to bring in fresh ideas and keep improving. You can also contribute to the project by raising issues, fixing bugs, or suggesting new features. It’s open source—so feel free to go crazy.

Personally, I’ll be contributing a lot to Luminary in my spare time, while also working on my many unfinished side projects and continuing my learning journey ( Still got top 1% aspirations ).

Shout out the team

I want to give a big shout out to these guys cause they really carried the project like their life depended on it and I'm grateful to have worked with people as amazing as they are;