Luvfoo Priorities and Roadmap
Note: We have moved priorities into the
TWB
Timeline Spreadsheet
Roadmap by Feature
Featured Content
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Develop a site wide news system
that let's admins push news from member blogs or groups to the home
page. In addition, group managers should be able to push news to the
group home page. It would be nice to be able to attach news items to
the various widgets so they can highlight specific member or group news
items in various locations on the site.
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Make it possible for site admins
to filter / push images to the home page.
File upload + share
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Let users upload files to their profile.
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Files can be shared with other users or groups
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Enable google docs integration via an open in google docs link
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Enable integration with Amazon S3
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enable online conversion of documents into html
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enable collaborative editing of document within the site via fck editor and
juggernaut
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Let users to upload files to
there projects (just officers or all the members - depend on the permission
that the officer gives)
Search
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Develop a site wide content
search system
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Figure out a search members
system. Part of the improve members page process.
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Enable recommendation
system. Suggest users that are interesting
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Let users import their contact
lists from GMail etc. Use that to search for potential
friends
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Let users search for each
other via skills or interests
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Improve the groups listing
page. Allow for featured groups. Make groups discoverable.
Groups
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Improve group home page
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Enable file upload directly into groups. Files uploaded here should
remain attached to the user doing the upload but be automatically shared
with the group. (and give synchronization editing on these documents - like
google docs).
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Let group admins send email to all members
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Integrate forums
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Add voting/survey mechanism to groups
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Analyze bookmarks shared by group members. Pull in rss from those
pages.
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Use recommender to suggest other interesting content
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Add events to groups
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Calendering
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Ability to create an impromptu event via SMS. Let users respond via
SMS
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Send out reminders via email, IM or SMS
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Add ability to pull in posts(from member's external blogs) or news stories
(from member's internal blog) into the group automatically based on tags
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Permissions
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Define roles:
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Pledge - User who has requested to join but not yet received approval
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Observer - User who has joined but cannot participate
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Member - User who has joined and can participate
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Manager - User who can can change role of other members except the
creator and other managers
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Creator - User who can change the role of anybody
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Alumni - User who once belonged but who wants to be listed but no longer
notified
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Banned - User banned from the group who cannot rejoin without admin
approval
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Creator and managers can specify:
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Default role for new members
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Whether or not joining requires approval
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Whether or not the group shows up in the group index
Profile Page
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Activity Feeds - Redo activity feeds so that they don't have to render by
pulling object data from the database every time. Instead it should be
outputing html with perhaps some simple text substitution for the user name,
friends etc - like the facebook api
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Add ability to invite someone to a group right from their profile
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Fix portfolio integration with eduCommons
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Add user stats and integrate with Twitter
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Pull in posts from a user's blog
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Pull in bookmarks from user's delicious
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Fix flickr integration
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Consider other services that might be worth pulling in that express a user's
identity (make the site more fun)
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What does it mean when I click the x next to a feed item?
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add ability to rank people
automatically by there posts and efforts they put on the
site.
Communication
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Send out more notifications to users via email.
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Let them know when a comment is made.
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there are changes in groups
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there is friend activity
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new messages are received.
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Adding permission system - and
let the user to avoid this messages if he likes to.
CMS
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Build out static page system
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Add zip file upload to add large numbers of files quickly
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Enable FCK editor
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Enable CMS for users
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Integrate file and photos so that a user can insert their stuff into a new
page
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Enable CMS for groups
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Enable Send2Wiki like functionality for CMS pages
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Add Juggernaut to allow for simultaneous editing of files
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Add ability to attach assignments and/or quizzes to content
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Will need a way to gather responses
Themes
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Enable theming engine so that the site is easier to deploy for 3rd parties
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Create a default theme.
API
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Add blogger or moveable type API so that users can add content from a
standard blogging utility
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Enable integration with Google docs via this mechanism. Users can
publish from their Google docs directly to the site
SMS
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Add SMS capability so that the system can send out alerts to members.
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Let friends SMS friends
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Enable SMS for groups
Localization
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Enable Google Translation integration
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Get volunteers to translate the site into multiple languages
Administration
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Build admin system to let users control site settings
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Let admins send out newsletters or SMS alerts to all members of the site
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Let admins monitor and ban users or content
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Let site admins choose a theme for the site
Users
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Generalize profile system so that any fields can be added/remove
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Integrate new profile system with Salesforce
Relations/Friends
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Modify friend relationship system to use follow, friend and mentor
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Add a direct link for accepting a friend to the friend request email
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When click on request link, change immediately to sending request... to
indicate activity
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Provide a quick link for getting back to looking at people
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Add the ability to request friends from the profile index page (people you
know well
Photos
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Make home page photos display in a light box when click on
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Improve experience. Let users and groups upload photos into
galleries.
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Integrate with Amazon S3
Sharing
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Hook link sharing into alexa images so we can show a screen shot of the
website a user has shared
Chat
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Use juggernaut to add chat functionality
Redesign
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Examine each page for usability.
Sitemaps
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Add ability to create an xml site map for crawlers
Maintenance
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Remove dependency on prototype. Use only jQuery to reduce script size.
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Clean up stylesheet
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Fix broken tests.
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Add new tests as we review code
Deployment
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Ensure every field where a user can input data is sanitized to prevent xss
Deployment
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Look at ways to easily deploy the site via cap to providers like Morph
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Enable backup of database via rake task to Amazon S3 (perhaps automate via a
background task)
Performance
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Are gravatar's causing us to be sluggish?
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Set up multiple mongrel processes
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Set up 3 subdomain asset hosts
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Analyze and optimize queries on each page
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Use Rails caching
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Asynchronously load non-essential stuff