README.md

Athena Civic VS

** This repository is devoted for the modification of the Athena codebase via Visual Studio. **

Athena is a web application for visualizing the civic technology space through an intuitive and interactive graphical network. Nodes represent the entities, which would consist of people and organizations, involved within this space, and the links represent the type of relationship/connection these entities share.

Filtering options provide a unique method for visualizing certain aspects of the civic technology space.

Type of Entities	Color Representation
For-Profit	Green
Non-Profit	Blue
Government	Red
Individuals	Orange

Type of Connections	Color Representation
Investing	Dark Green
Funding	Purple
Collaboration	Yellow
Affiliation	Pink

Cloning the repository

git clone https://github.com/microsoftny/athena-civic-vs.git

Running on localhost

Once the project is opened in Visual Studio and Node tools are installed, navigate to "Control Panel" -> "Programs and Features" -> "Turn Windows Features On or Off". Turn on IIS (Internet Information Services) to enable localhost capabilities on local machine.

After building and running the project, Athena should be viewable from the following URL.

Machine	URL
Windows	localhost:1337