Madison Rails
schedule app for Barcamp

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Check out our project on Ruby Forge! And visit the ConfCalendar web site!

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Name Ideas

The winner Is:

• ConfCalendar (Jeff has secured the .com, .net, and .org) We may use the .org as the primary TLD and redirect the .com to the .org. We might want to use the .net as the developer/secret-project-work site?

Runners up:

• Doeet.com (Jim already has it registered)
• ConfCal.org
• BarTime
• CampCounselr

Other BarCamp Scheduler Names

General App Ideas

• User-centric events
• barcamp app user profiles
• Tagging
• Facilitators own sessions
• Facebook-type community pages
• Tracking (Event, Speaker, Friend, Topic)
• Single-screen UI - similar to Drupal example Blake showed us last week

• CMS
  • CMS Options
    • Build our own RoR CMS
    • Build off of Mephisto CMS (RoR)
    • Build on Drupal (and build our own Drupal theme though it is PHP-based)
  • Build and test our own front-end code YUI
  • Use an existing theme to save time?
  • Group discussion about using http://drupal.org as a CMS

• Use of YUI
  • Yahoo!UI Grids are bullet-proof
  • YUI licensing may create problem (Nate here from the YUI Team. The YUI license is the BSD license, which, though I’m not a lawyer, is one of the most open licenses around. You can use YUI for anything, license the resulting work in any way… the only real requirement is that you attribute the YUI code as specified. Anyways, drop me a note at nate.koechley.com/contact if you have any questions.)
  • YUI duplicates the prototype.js library, may need to relink YUI call to standard prototype.js under the public/stylesheets dir

• Wiki
  • Support (external use by users of the app)
  • Development (internal use by developers, duh)
  • Platforms
    • http://www.stikipad.com
    • http://instiki.org/show/HomePage
    • http://pandora.rubyveil.com/pandora/Pandora/Introduction/Pandora
    • http://drupal.org/project/wiki Wiki Module

• Blog for external use … create buzz for this new app)?
  • Do we need one?
  • Do we care at this point?
  • What blog app do we use?

• No deadline

Possible IA

(structure only, link names TBD)

• Public Site
  • appsitename.com
  • appsitename.com/about_the_project
  • appsitename.com/features_and_requirements
  • appsitename.com/blog/
  • appsitename.com/forum

• App Site
  • appsitename.com/sign_up_for_account
  • appsitename.com/event_schedueler_app

• Development Site
  • dev.appsitename.com/wiki
  • appsitename.com/forum
  • dev.appsitename.com/event_scheduelr_app

• Example IA for BarCamp Denver
  • www.confcalendar.com (users chose events to attend)
  • denver.confcalendar.com (users manage sessions w/n this event)
  • www.confcalendar.com/denver (poss. IA of above example)

General Screen Inventory

• Public Site
  • Get the App (free version and not-free version)
  • About this project (General info, app info, contributors, sponsors, investor info)
  • Access to App (Sign-up/Log-In/Log-Out)
  • Wiki (serving an app-support function)
  • My Account (Profile/Settings/Manage My Events)
  • “I’m going to this event” (see Track below)

• App “Site”
  • Event Search
  • Event View (Year/Month/Day)
  • Event Detail (5w’s)
  • Manage Event (Add/Modify/Delete)
  • Manage Topic or Track (Add/Modify/Delete)
  • Track (Event, Speaker, Friend, Topic)