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Features, Bugs & Versions

chachasikes edited this page Jun 23, 2011 · 9 revisions

Versions

v1.1.0: May 2011

A simple prototype of CityGroups which allowed us to import a database of communities and display it with a web interface.

Basic features include:

  • Create group
  • Search groups
  • Bulk add groups
  • Export groups
  • View groups
  • Sign in

v1.2.0: June 2011

We got some initial positive feedback on the application and then proceeded to add some major features.

Improvements Include

  • Design The design is now similar to the new design for CityHero, another Code for America TeamSeattle/Philadelphia project)
  • Subsites/Data Collection Projects ability to create special pages for data collection projects which can look different
  • More comprehensive data architecture
  • Map features
  • display groups on map with service areas
  • provide some geocoding information for groups
  • improve geofield's map feature drawing tool
  • Metrics At a metrics meeting, we determined that the main goals of the site include
  • Number of groups (going up)
  • People sharing groups (twitter/facebook)
  • Positive outcomes in the groups (group attendance going up, or groups working together/combining resources)
  • Created Wiki on Github.
  • We are now moving all bugs & feature plans to github.
  • Development will live at http://dev.citygroups.org

Data

We are working with the following datasets & data collection projects. (Open to more!)

  • Seattle Communities Online
  • City of Seattle Outreach List
  • Wallingford Community Groups
  • Block Watch Captains in Seattle

Future Data Projects

Seattle

  • Food Groups
  • Arts Groups
  • Disease & Health Groups
  • Parenting groups
  • School groups
  • More Neighborhoods

Known Bugs & Issues

  • Views datasource broke with the upgrade, so to export data, that must be done in admin interface.
  • Should upgrade to openlayers 7.x.-dev
  • It is confusing when user draws shape and doesn't know how to get out of it.
  • Anonymous users shouldn't be able to edit their post... (is this an issue?)
  • Add image: won't actually show an image, and text is confusing

v1.3.0 (Slated for June/July 2011)

Future Features

  • Civic Taxonomy import moderated civic taxonomy, with nounproject icons.
  • Category suggestion when entering new groups
  • Ratings (dead, recommended, comments/reviews)
  • Import Taxonomy
  • Work with Seattle Area Block Watch Captains on the Block Watch Captain Finder, which is a subsection of City Groups
  • Get more user feedback, then do another iteration of the design
  • Improve map drawing interface to be completely intuitive
  • Site wayfinding Menus, navigation, dashboards & redirecting
  • Form instructions improve text and improve the design
  • Blockwatch: anonymous tip
  • Sign in (via Facebook) vs Anonymous --> Needs some attention
  • Make subsites more robust
  • Make separate city setup more robust
  • Clean up data import & export

v1.4.0 (August-ish 2011)

Possible Future Features

  • Test community moderators
  • Test bulk upload with community contributors
  • Test people in setting up the site / site subsections
  • Integrate with Meetup API (groups searches)