How to use/view this proposal – List of items in the 1st iteration and time/cost



How to use/view this proposal – List of items in the 1st iteration and time/cost

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philosopherz

Initially a proposal for Skeptical Philosophers website

On Github ponelat / philosopherz

How to use/view this proposal

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Looking at the current setup, this is what I surmised

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List of current features:

  • Sign-up/Members list
  • Photo Albums
  • Discussion board
  • Mailing list
  • Polls
  • Calendar with Meetup.com dates
  • Many comments and questions
  • All-in-all an ongoing discussion

Since the project could take a number of different turns at present, it is best to work on iterations. For instance, the very first thing we need to build is a platform that allows the continued flow of dialogue that is in Meetup.com In other words, lets build a shell around Meetup.com with the obvious need to extend pass that a little on. →

First we need to get to ground zero, the point where our innovations can come to the fore

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What is key?

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The user log's in. Technically we are going to use oAuth to authorize a user, either ourselves or through a social network site

Next meet-up Who, where, when, what and how of the community. If something is going to happen, the user should know about it.

The wall Open forum of discussion. For each section, whether it is a page, a meet-up or a possible topic There will be a comment stream to allow user input

Framework

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WordPress Why?... It has an enormous amount of support... with plug-ins, themes and available developers. If I were to do this for myself, I wouldn't use WordPress ...it isn't as fun (or easily testable ) as rails or a SPA app But let's not waste innovation in the code, let's have better 'user' ideas!

Users They don't like signing up. I don't like signing up. The initial iteration will focus on Meetup.com's users This way we can make use of their API

Pages, posts and Meetups At it's heart WordPress is a blogging platform The structure will revolve around Post-like items with comments This will include injected content from Meetup.com

List of items in the 1st iteration and time/cost

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Items

1. Setup .... WordPress Subtotal =
2. Integrating Meetup.com user authenticate with oAuth ....Time to study Meetups.com's API and oAuth integration ....Implement so that: users from Meetup.com can log in with their details cached Subtotal =
3. Creation of "Meetup.com events" by hosts (or co-hosts) .... Admin editor for CRUD operations ....Comment integration ....Integration of a Calendar plug-in with events notification Subtotal =
4. Theme free → $75+....A theme needs to be made/bought ....For base customization Subtotal =

Grand total:

Off the top of my head here are a couple extensions that could be done ↓

Possible Features ↓

  • A 'featured works' page to showcase users' thoughts and ideas 5±hrs
  • Social networking integration (for more users) 4±hrs
  • Real-time chat room 8±hrs
  • An archive search, with related topics 4±hrs
  • Quick dictionary (click on word, links to dictionary) 2±hrs
  • Hot topic list, through twitter feed 4±hrs
Fin Josh Ponelat odesk.com/profile This application odesk.com/application email me | skype: josh.ponelat