MO:VES Project General Specifications

This was most recently revised on July 16, 2019.

Parsing the asks by the sponsor/client

This is an attempt to parse the asks by the sponsor/client, and determine the design and coding impact on the app, and on the web service (“WS” in the table below). The info was taken from the project description and the web site pages.

Source	Statement	App impact	WS impact
Web	(local and foreign volunteers)	Localized UI	Localized data
Both	No safety services	Info, contact Easy access to a way to contact someone	Logging maybe
Both	Local info	Available offline	Can be updated
Descr.	Use provided wireframes	Known starting point
Descr.	Translate	Easy UI switching Available offline	Multi-language
Descr.	Location	In-app, or work with device app	Logging maybe
Descr.	Call button	Launch device app	Logging maybe
Descr.	Push notifications	In-app, and/or work with device app	Must be initiated centrally and logged
Descr.	Messages for MO:VES staff	In-app, and or work with device app	Logging maybe
Descr.	Technical requrements	Must implement	Must support
Web	Foreign volunteer challenges during stay	Info with basic human needs	Must support

Now, move on to the specs documents for:

• The app
• The web service

Other related general info

Wireless service in Morocco

Must learn something about this.

Professor had a brief look at this; Google search words were:
sim card data plan morocco
This was one of the articles (from October 2017).
The suggestion is that service in Morocco is inexpensive.
This informs our design, perhaps about location services and inter-person communication services, because getting access to that data would be cheap.

Country and language coding

The ISO 3166 standard defines codes for the names of countries worldwide. We will plan to use the two-letter codes, for example:

• CA - Canada
• DK - Denmark
• MA - Morocco

The ISO 639 standard defines codes for languages worldwide. We will plan to use the two-letter codes, but can be expanded to include a region tag (which is a country code from above). For example:

• ar - Arabic
• en-CA - English in Canada
• fr-CA - French in Canada

Often the region tag is in upper-case letters, but it should have no significance to us in the design and coding of software.

When learning about this, you can scan both the Wikipedia-like resources and the official ISO resources.