Feature Suggestions

This wiki page should serve as a common area to dump early ideas for features and fixes that we want, before they are flushed out enough to create GH Issues. Feel free to contribute, comment, etc.

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Integrate with ical, Google calendar, etc.

• In /courses/show be able to add to user's google calendar with 1 click.
• This is the area I'm talking about

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Add a calendar when updating class profile

• Enables the user to look and pick for a date quickly, without using an outside calendar
• e.g. Use something like Datepicker

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Set default location based on IP

• Instead of using Austin as a default location, parse the IP of the user to set location.
• Possibly use the geokit gem

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Instant photo upload/preview

• Start uploading a photo immediately after a user submits the file instead of on after manually submitting the form
• Show a preview of the photo next to the uploader before form submission

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Legal Disclaimer so Hourschool can not get sued

• I don't know if we have one or not, maybe make a user agree to one upon account creation.
• Motivation for this:
• e.g. I teach a class on car repair. Bob takes my class. Bob tries to fix his car. Bob gets injured fixing his car. Bob blames Hourschool. Legal battles ensue.

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Forward Heroku logs to some external logger

• http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/logging#log_retrieval

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Consider storing social network data to enhance suggestions/search/recommend to friends etc.

• Consider using native graph stores ( > Performance, Schema-Less natural queries, Integrates w/ RoR)
• Neo4J is supported on Heroku!

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