Tyler 2010

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This is just rambling ideas of stuff we want to do on/to Tyler. Call it a wish list of sorts.

If you have a suggestion, new item, recommendation, idea on how to implement some features etc. please contribute (with your name.. so we can track you down... :)

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Tyler 2010

Our corporate vision for the future!

General ByteClub stuff

Hodgepodge of stuff we would like to do/get around to doing for the ByteClub site.

  • Survey module
    • On the front page. Any member can add a survey, and see the current pretty stats/comments.
  • Admin site/module
    • for, well.. admin.
  • blog list/feed on front page
    • a landing page for all your essential byteclub needs.
    • latest blog posts/comments
    • latest wiki entries
    • (latest project updates .. when/if we have projects)
  • ByteClub events (dates/times).
    • members can add a news event (this is what the wiki is doing de-facto...)
    • pretty list on the front page
  • update blog list
    • db driven from values (depends on new admin stuff)
    • links to actual blog posts (dates) so that visited links actually make sense.
    • list more than just the last post for a user
    • show a count of how many comments per post
  • tagging (across apps)
    • have our own byteclub tag db (cool for topic/keyword searches across all areas. This should be able to build a single tag list with sources from everyones blogs and the wiki, and ...?)
  • font page aggregation of info (as mentioned)
    • recent wiki updated, recent blog posts, recent blog comments, etc

For every application (I like the term weblication) there needs to be an active procedure for maintaining security. If one hacker gets into one php page, all this fantastic content could be lost in an instant. Just something to keep in mind. Jnewbigin

ByteClub Projects site

The idea is to have a dev.byteclub.net (or similar) site to support and encourage ByteClub members own software projects. Projects don't have to be related to ByteClub. This would be something like Sourceforge lite.

This could include (but not be limited to)...

  • project managment site? (similar to BaseCamp?)
  • communication/meeting tool. (Are there OpenSource tools available? Like CampFire?)
  • bugtracker? Bugzilla? Similar?
  • dev site (grant svn access to ByteClub mambers?)
    • Should this be via WebDav (HTTP)? Or is that too risky?
    • Can we set up a secure ssh thing without having to give everyone shell accounts?

(More items for the wishlist?) (xavier) I vote SVN over HTTPS + Trac. I've set it up at home and there's no major configuration issues. When I get time I'll try and write a script to automate installs.

Perhaps if ByteClub users could register new projects by themselves and each project was automaticly set up with all of the above and given it's own URL? (Like "myProject.dev.byteclub.net")

ByteClub MOO

For more info on MOOs, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOO.

The LambdaCore code is very old, developing this new would make a great ByteClub project and it would allow using newer languages (VBScript/JScript) for in-MOO programming and a faster back-end database. Possibly a nice GUI front-end as well (rather than the traditional telnet).

Would people be interested? Would it get used?

ByteClub 2010

So we have this wonderful server called Tyler that allows for ByteClub members to have great facilities for coding, though what does ByteClub want to do as a club?