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Lapwing.Org: Vowel
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About
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Vowel is a Virtual Online Workspace for Education and Learning.

The aim is to facilitate remote learning and training,
initially for further education and 
company training organisations.


ChangeLog
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See CHANGELOG.rst for full list of changes.


Requirements
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Software
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- PostgreSQL (9.5 or greater)
- Redis (3.2 or greater)
- Python 3 (3.5 or greater)
- LibreOffice (5.0 or greater)
- Poppler (poppler-glib 0.45 or greater)
- Python 3 GOBject

Hardware
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- 1GB RAM
- 1CPU core
- At least 20GB HDD/SSD for storage


Setup
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virtualenv
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#. Ensure the software requirements above are met and running
#. ``mkvirtualenv vowel``
#. ``git clone git@github.com:LapwingOrg/vowel.git && cd vowel``
#. ``pip install -r requirements.txt``
#. ``mkdir instance && cp config.py instance && nano instance/config.py``

   - Setup you configuation options here,
     such as PostgreSQL connection, file upload location, secret key, etc.
#. ``FLASK_APP=$(pwd)/run.py flask first_run``

   - Enter admin email and password.
#. ``FLASK_APP=$(pwd)/run.py flask run``
#. Goto ``http://127.0.0.1:5000`` and login.
#. Background workers will not run unless started,
   recommended that they are run in separate terminals

   - ``source "./deployment/rq_settings.conf"``
   - ``source "./instance/rq_settings.conf"``
   - ``~/virtualenvs/vowel/bin/rqworker -u "${RQ_REDIS_URL}" high default low &``
   - ``~/virtualenvs/vowel/bin/rqscheduler -u "${RQ_REDIS_URL}" &``


Testing
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virtualenv
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#. Ensure the software requirements above are met and running
#. ``workon vowel && cd <PATH TO>/vowel``
#. ``pip install -r requirements.testing.txt``
#. ``nosetests -w testing/unittests``


Licence
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Vowel is Copyright (C) 2015, 2016, 2017 Sam Black samwwwblack@lapwing.org.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.
If not, see `http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>`_.

Further licences are listed in the LICENCES directory.