C4GT

Overview

Launched in 2022, C4GT is a one-of-its-kind initiative that aims to build a community of communities around Digital Public Goods (DPG), Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) & Tech for Good products. Through various efforts, it aims to encourage ongoing contributions and strengthen collaboration between DPG/DPI builders, adopters, and contributors (students or working professionals). The initiative works towards facilitating long-term collaboration and innovation within the fast evolving DPGs/DPI & Tech for Good ecosystem, enhancing the efficiency and quality of contributions, and aligning the incentives for both organizations and contributors. More about C4GT here: https://codeforgovtech.in/

This Website Audience

This website tries to document the tech systems powering the C4GT initiatives. If you are a product manager, community manager or a software engineer, wanting to understand how to build a system that integrates multiple tools used by open source developers together, this is the right place for you.

Architecture

Source

• GitHub and Discord - We listen to events from external systems like GitHub and Discord. These could be joining a discord server, sending a message in a discord channel, joining a discord channel, logging into a github app, commenting on a github issue, raising a PR and so on. Both these external systems are commonly used in the tech ecosystem to manage open source software and contributions.
• DMP Cron - We run a yearly Dedicated Mentorship Program (DMP) initiative. This module pulls data from Github related to that.
• Server - This module is responsible to power authentication across GitHub and Discord for our members. It also manager the Open Community tickets raised & closed in the community.
• C4GT website - The website uses elements from server to render itself.
• Discord Bot - The custom flows of our discord server are controlled by this module. A major flow is connecting discord users to github users.
• DB - All modules have a single source of truth and database.
• DMP API - This flask module powers the DMP docs website APIs.
• DMP Docs - This docusaurus module powers https://milestones.c4gt.samagra.io/.