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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 forum.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)