Task:Maemo Brainstorm

Need

• Developers, community, users, etc. can suggest ideas to Nokia and to the developers
• People can give thumps up and down to the ideas
• People can comment the ideas and other comments

Examples

• http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ & http://www.ideatorrent.org/
  • All the basic functionalities. Registration needed to add content, comment and vote
• https://features.opensuse.org/ - commented at http://en.opensuse.org/Proposals/openFate & http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/01/do-you-believe-in-fate.html
• http://aivo.sonera.fi/ (in finnish)
  • A big ISP-company in Finland. Registration needed to add content, comment and vote
• http://ideastorm.com
• http://ideaforge.linux.com/

Questions

• Does everything require registration?
• Layout?
  • There are few examples (feel free to add more examples)
• Views
  • What are the views needed to show ideas
    • Latest
    • Most commented
    • Most voted
    • Most liked
    • Most hated
• Karma
  • How are the karma-points counted, do you get one point from one idea?
  • What about commenting and voting?

Roadmap

1. Answer questions
2. Testcomponent to test-server
3. Community tests and gives comments
4. Publish

Basic idea

• Looks like a news feed
• On top of the page there is horisontal navigation, containing the four root status
• Viewing alloved for everyone, voting and commenting only for the registered users
• Only one vote per user, user can change the vote he/she made
• States can be changed by moderators
  • Changing status won't make a comment, but status history can be viewed by everyone
• Moderators can delete items and comments
• Items can be linked to another items (duplicate items for example)
• Creator can choose that he/she want's an email about comments and status updates to that item
  • If so, every comment and status update sends an email to the creator
  • Set to no by default
  • Creator can change the setting afterwards (every email contains a link to change the setting)
• Every listing shows only the title and desctiption, score (like 18 (+22/-4)) and the count of comments
  • When you click the title of the item, you get to see all the comments in that item

Item

• Item's fields
  • Title
  • Explanation
  • Status (explained later)
  • Milestone
  • Category (basicly all the categories in the application manager and also OS)
    • Do we need this? Is the milestone enough?
  • Creator
• Item has couple states
  • Sandbox (only moderators can comment these ideas)
    • Valid candidate (All the new ideas that are not yet approved by the moderators (not visible to the anonymous user))
    • Invalid ideas (spam, etc)
    • Allready implemented (ideas, that allready exists, someone just needs to answer those somehow)
    • Duplicates (if the idea is allready somewhere)
  • In a need of voting (accepted under commenting) this needs a better title
    • Milestones as a subnavi
  • Under development
    • Milestones as a subnavi
  • Implemented
    • Milestones as a subnavi

Commenting

• Comment fields
  • Title
  • Vote (up or down)
  • Commenter
• Every second comment has different background to help reading
  • If creator comments the idea, there is a different background and/or title-color
  • If moderador comments the idea, there is a different background and/or title-color

Basic site structure

• Frontpage
  • List 10 most voted items with status "In a need of voting"
  • Paged
• Latest
  • Shows 10 latest items that have had some sort of change (status, comment or vote)
  • Paged
• Newest ideas
  • Show the 10 latest items by creation time
• Most liked
• Most hated
• Most commented