Committee Lead: Joey Rubas (@JoeyRubas)
League: apda.online
Welcome to the American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) Tech Committee GitHub organization.
We maintain and improve the software that powers APDA’s tournaments, national standings, and other digital infrastructure — used by hundreds of debaters and organizers each year.
| Service | Live Site | Source Code |
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| MIT-TAB Tournament tabulation platform used at APDA tournaments across North America. |
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| NU-TAB Deployer One-click/GUI tournament setup for MIT-TAB instances. |
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| APDA Standings (Black Rod) National rankings & results tracking for the league. |
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A focus this year is moving our services towards a diverse set of hot and exciting technologies to give our members experience on the cutting edge. Here's a look at how our architecture is built, and where its headed:
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%% ------------------ Standings site ------------------
subgraph ST[Standings site]
direction TB
subgraph ST_FE[Frontend]
ST_WP[Webpack]:::current --> ST_BS[Bootstrap]:::current
ST_BS -.->|moving to| ST_ANG[Angular]:::target
end
subgraph ST_BE[Backend]
ST_DJ[Django]:::current --> ST_PG[(PostgreSQL)]:::infra --> ST_LIN[Linode]:::infra
ST_LIN -.->|moving to| ST_AWS[AWS]:::target
end
ST_FE -->|API| ST_BE
end
%% ------------------ MIT-TAB ------------------
subgraph MT[MIT-TAB]
direction TB
subgraph MT_FE[Frontend]
MT_WP[Webpack]:::current --> MT_BS[Bootstrap]:::current
MT_BS -.->|moving to| MT_RE[React]:::target
end
subgraph MT_BE[Backend]
MT_DJ[Django]:::current --> MT_MY[(MySQL)]:::infra --> MT_DO[DigitalOcean]:::infra
end
MT_FE -->|API| MT_BE
end
%% ------------------ Committees Blog ------------------
subgraph CB[Committees Blog]
direction TB
subgraph CB_FE[Frontend]
CB_VUE[Vue 3]:::current --> CB_VITE[Vite]:::current --> CB_TW[Tailwind CSS]:::current
end
subgraph CB_BE[Backend]
CB_NODE[Node.js]:::current --> CB_EXP[Express]:::current --> CB_PRISMA[Prisma]:::infra
CB_PRISMA -.->|moving to →| CB_MONGO[(MongoDB)]:::target
CB_EXP --> CB_GCP[Google Cloud]:::current
end
CB_FE -->|API| CB_BE
end
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We welcome contributions from current debaters, alumni, and anyone interested in improving debate technology
Ways to contribute:
- Fix bugs or add features to our repositories.
- Improve documentation and onboarding.
- Help with deployment, infrastructure, or testing.
Have questions or ideas?
- Open an issue in the relevant repo.
- Reach out to (@JoeyRubas)
- Or contact the committee through the APDA Board.
Maintained by volunteers, for the APDA community.
