Please read this document if you want to contribute with this project
Recommendation: You should create a python virtual environment and some package with pip, We are using Pycharm jetbrains IDE, because is easy to create a viartual env and django projects, but you are free to use any IDE you like.
Basically we are using postgresql 9.6.3-2 as a database, you can set your own local database in settings.py, in the DATABASE [..... ....] section. In front-end, we're using materialize css v0.99.0, as back-end django 1.11.2. Check out requirements.txt for all packages needed.
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