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Building Fusefly
- 1. Building FuseFly Brett Profitt August 15th, 2009 Elgg Camp Boston 2009 http://www.fusefly.com
- 2. What is FuseFly? “ FuseFly is a social network connecting homeschoolers around the world ... [that provides] ... a secure environment for teens … [with] areas for both students and parents.” http://www.fusefly.com/pg/static_content/about_us
- 3. What is FuseFly? “ FuseFly is a social network connecting homeschoolers around the world ... [that provides] ... a secure environment for teens … [with] areas for both students and parents .” http://www.fusefly.com/pg/static_content/about_us
- 5. Open Source.
- 6. Easily supplemented with custom plugins.
- 7. Loads of third party plugins.
- 9. “Walled Garden” approach to content.
- 10. Word list censor plugin.
- 14. Show parents this is useful and safe.
- 17. 9 from the Elgg Community.
- 19. Tidy Pics
- 20. Embed Video
- 21. Play List
- 23. Group Extender
- 26. Event Calendar*
- 27. Chat*
- 28. Reported Content* * Modified versions of core / community plugins.
- 30. Badges
- 31. Guardians
- 32. Uncaptcha
- 33. Omni Inviter
- 34. Any Text
- 36. Big Brother
- 37. Directory
- 38. phpBB
- 39. My Theme
- 40. Demerits
- 42. User Status
- 44. Badges
- 45. Guardians
- 46. Uncaptcha
- 47. Omni Inviter
- 48. Any Text
- 50. Big Brother
- 51. Directory
- 52. PhpBB
- 53. My Theme
- 54. Demerits
- 56. User Status
- 58. Absolute power corrupts; Relative power corrupts teens.
- 59. Balancing individuality with usability.
- 61. Parents worry about their kids.
- 62. Parents need a “why.”
- 63. Building FuseFly Brett Profitt August 15th, 2009 Elgg Camp Boston 2009 http://www.fusefly.com
Editor's Notes
- Introduction “ My name is Brett Profitt and I'm want to talk about my experiences developing FuseFly, a social networking site for homeschoolers.” Take a functional approach to building the site. Answered the question “What is FuseFly?”
- While developing Fusefly, we took a very functional approach. Using the “mission statement,” we asked “What does the software need to do to make FuseFly this site?” There are a few good clues in the mission statement itself to the development that would be required.
- A social network. Elgg was For homeschoolers. A secure social network. For homeschooled students and homeschoolings parents. What does this imply for development?
- Elgg met 75% of our requirements out of the box. It was open source—we knew where our data was. Extensible plugin system Already loads of community plugins.
- Not just hacker proof! Niche site for a conservative crowd. Parents concerned with children privacy. ...with maintaining high morals. Extra security in place.
- Students need photos, chat, email, contests, playlists, customizable themes and profiles. Parents need calendars, events, group resource.
- Walk through registration. Log in as admin, walk through chat with demerits. Change theme, show changes.
- Students registering as guardians Students getting around the censor by using leet speak, making up swears, or using ######. Moderators are S T R I C T.
- Students registering as guardians Students getting around the censor by using leet speak, making up swears, or using ######. Moderators are S T R I C T.
- Introduction “ My name is Brett Profitt and I'm want to talk about my experiences developing FuseFly, a social networking site for homeschoolers.” Take a functional approach to building the site. Answered the question “What is FuseFly?”