della

Della is a Django app for managing Secret Santa/Gift Exchange. It is written for small communities where participants are in the range of 200-250 but not more (Why so?).

Features

Della has very limited set of features, however, if you need some extra feature then feel free to tweet me and I might consider adding it.

• User signup (with invite code)
• Messaging and secret/sneaky messaging (with email notifications)
• Gallery
• Admin features - Drawing names, Sending mass emails

Screenshots

Check here.

System Requirements

• Python 3.5
• PostgreSQL (or MySQL)
• nginx
• supervisord

Other requirements

Della uses Sparkpost to send emails. So you need Sparkpost API Key and also an email address which can be used to send emails with Sparkpost.

While signing up, every participant needs an invite code, which can be set to any string by admin.

These settings are to be set in della/settings/secret.py as SPARKPOST_API_KEY, SENDER_EMAIL and INVITE_CODE.

Deployment

1. Clone the repo and rename/copy della/settings/sample_secret.py to della/settings/secret.py and set the variables appropriately.

2. Install the requirements

    pip3 install -r requirements.txt
   

3. Setup ngnix (use configs/nginx)

4. Setup uWSGI (use configs/uwsgi.conf)

5. Setup supervisord (use configs/supervisor.conf)

Once everything is setup, CD into della directory and run following:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 manage.py migrate --settings=della.settings.production
python3 manage.py collectstatic --settings=della.settings.production --noinput
python3 manage.py createsuperuser --settings=della.settings.production
python3 manage.py makemigrations background_task --settings=della.settings.production
python3 manage.py migrate --settings=della.settings.production
systemctl start della.uwsgi.service
supervisorctl start della_background_tasks

To Do

• Add tests
• Mark/confirm gifts received (or not)
• Add commenting system for Gallery
• Allow multiple exchanges
• Ability to set preference questionnaire for exchanges

Name

The name Della comes from O. Henry's short story The Gift of the Magi.

Send me love

You will probably going to use a VPS to host Della, please consider using any of the following referral links:

• Digital Ocean
• Vultr
• Ramnode

Or some bitcoins: 1LAmWUmdu1r1KLQrcZ2uK6r5P7xx5gRmnW. Thank you! 🎅

Contributing

Check the logged issues with tag enhancement. Do submit a new issue if you have any UI/UX suggestion.

License

The mighty MIT license. Please check LICENSE for more details.