Community platform

Ideas based on a brainstorming with SJ, Alex and Seth during the grassroots bootcamp. ChristophD 03:54, 11 June 2008 (EDT)

Overview

• Need
  • Profiles
  • Friends
  • Groups (create, join)
  • Group Bulletin Board
  • Extensions to git, pootle, ProjectDB, etc.
  • Event planning
  • Location and interest awareness
  • Localization
  • Activity stream (a la FB)
  • Wiki integration (don't duplicate info from Wiki, rather try to encourage people to link to respective wiki-pages)

• Want
  • User extensions
  • Community credits (Karma)
  • Games (translation, development)
  • Match-making
  • Sock puppets

Roadmap

• one workunit = two weeks
• use G1G1 2008 announcement for big launch of community platform
• slowly start introducing it to people on forums.laptop.org, olpcnews.com/forums and elsewhere once we have a basic version running

v0.1

• deadline: June, 15
• features:
  • having standard Elgg setup running

v0.2

• deadline: June, 22
• features:
  • tests and evaluation for basic functionality (users, profiles, groups)

v0.3

• deadline: June, 29
• private invitations (support-gang, bootcamp participants, etc.)
• features:
  • sign-up, create profile
  • create groups
  • invite people to platform, groups
  • add RSS feeds to "home-view"
  • simple BBS

v0.4

• deadline: July, 13

v0.5

• deadline: July, 27

...

v0.8

• deadline: Month, Day (to coincide and be coordinated with G1G1 2008 announcement)

v0.9

• deadline: v0.8 + 2 weeks
• based on initial feedback from v.08

v1.0

• deadline: beginning of G1G1 2008 ordering

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Release early, release often. Otherwise it's not going to happen.

ChristophD 03:54, 11 June 2008 (EDT)