A web app for organizing carpooling. The app will send SMS or e-mail notifications to each user before the carpool meeting time to confirm that they are coming.
The administrator sets up carpools on a recurring basis, and users can choose to attend those carpools. Users who choose to attend a carpool recurrence will be automatically added to the list for each instance of that recurrence.
Some time before the start of each instance (4 hours by default), each attendee will receive a notification (via SMS or e-mail, their choice) asking them to confirm that they are coming. Later (30 mintes before the start, by default), each attendee will receive another notification informing them who is coming and who is driving.
Each user specifies whether they are a driver, and if they are a driver, they specify how many seats their car has. After the attendees confirm that they are coming, the app will decide who is driving based on the required number of seats and who has been driving the least frequently recently.
If there are not enough seats for all users who wish to attend, then the app will only allow those who confirmed the earliest to come, and the others will be added to a waiting list in case another driver decides to attend.
This app theoretically works on Windows as well as any OS that supports mono. So far it has only been tested on Windows/IIS and ubuntu/nginx/fastcgi-mono-server4.
Twilio is the only supported SMS API at the moment, so you need to have a Twilio account to use this. Alternatively, if you want to write some code to support other APIs, feel free to submit a pull request.
Have a look at the wiki if you want to do development on CarpoolPlanner.