Agoric Systems Steem account creation faucet code is now Open Source

• What is the project about?
  https://agoric.co, the official website of @agoric.systems with a built in Steem account creation faucet has been open sourced. It uses unique codes printed on physical slips to allow a Steem account to be created using the account @agorian as the registrar. @buildteam expressed interest in using our code to drive their own Steem invite voucher project, so we have decided to finally open source the project. You can access the Github repository here.

• Technology Stack
  Python 3.5, Flask, SQLAlchemy, steem-python, MySQL.

• Roadmap
  We are opening the code to the community so that others may benefit from our work or use it as a starting point, as we will be focusing on other projects.

• How to contribute?
  The code is free to use for commercial purposes. Pull requests to our repo will be reviewed and merged if it makes sense.

Check out the instructions below (also in README.md) to hack on our code.

# Running the web app locally for development on macOS

1) Download virtualenv / virtualenvwrapper.sh and create 
a new virtualenv. 

Using homebrew, this can be done with the following commands:

> brew install virtualenvwrapper.sh


2) Next, we want to create a new virtualenv using Python 3.5+.

On macOS the following env variables are necessary. 
You can set them by adding them to your ~/.profile

export WORKON_HOME=~/.venvs
export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python3
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/pkgconfig"
export FLASK_APP=agoricco
export FLASK_DEBUG=1


3) Now the virtualenv can be created.

> mkvirtualenv agoricco


4) Your prompt should say (agoricco) now.

5) Clone the project's git repo somewhere.

> git clone git@github.com:agoric-systems/agoric.co.git

6) Next, change into the project's directory.

> cd agoricco

7) Install the python dependencies.

> pip install -r requirements.txt

8) Change directory again into the agoricco directory
 and start the flask app.

> flask run

9) If you need to activate the virtualenv  again in the future:

> workon agoricco

Don't hesitate to contact @robrigo with any questions, or if you'd like us to send some scrips your way.