Ideagora

A place to share good ideas and connect with your fellow RailsCampers.

Done:

• user auth by email address or twitter handle (no password)
• Simple profiles for each user -- contact info, bio, and skills/interests tagging
• Simple people directory: can search / filter by words in the people directory table
• Events and Talks creation and listing
• Projects creation and viewing
• Message board for organisers to push notices
• Gravatar integration
• Thoughts and ideas (for talk proposals or requests for talks)
• Upvotes for ideas

To-Do:

• clean up the talk vs. event duplication
• def organisers_for_camp(camp) in user.rb
• user.full_name in urls - instead of id
• create a new talk: only for myself (current user)
• Allow people to attend things:
  • "Collaborate" on projects
  • "Attend" talks and events
  • "Attend" the camp (camps already have this, but could be generified to work with all content types)
• list all the people who liked a thought
• enable thoughts to be turned in to projects or events

Someday Maybe:

• mobile interface
  • perhaps a downloadable mini-webapp
• (push?) notifications for the app
• notify users who upvoted thoughts if it gets used as the basis of a talk or project
• a more asynchronous/responsive UI with next to no full page requests
• profile picture (not gravatar) with paperclip or carrierwave
• tag projects with keywords that map to skills and interests from users so we can show people projects that match their skills/interests
• collect audio/video/notes taken from talks and expose for viewing by others later (at camp or post-camp)

Credits

• Written by Elle Meredith and Gabe Hollombe
• With interface design and coding by Chris Darroch
• Additional contributions from Ganesh Shankar