Skeptical Philosophers, a 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

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