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A lot of changes merged, Release 2 upcoming.
Everybody's happy?
Tilmann: I am
Lars: YES!
chandi: me too
Directory structure
Using the established hierarchy (mostly group).Feelings?
Some dependencies were missing, would be cool to have template tests to find missing dependencies (missing components)
Relationships with foodsharing communities
Ideas?
- Nick: Ask Kristijan if he would like to help us
- Lars: Introduction page to the tool, showing off its features
- Nick: video on the introduction page, ask around in yunity
- Tilmann: team page to gain users' trust
- Nick: add a dev blog, with translation feature (blog.foodsaving.world, with a link on the main page)
Groups that we are in contact with: Existing initiatives
Buddy system and responsibilities
Nick wrote a proposal: https://slack-files.com/T0B6WCFM5-F481PUPC7-7bf55ef119
Lars: Like the idea of a buddy system a lot for newcomers
Nick: having a regular check-in could be useful
Tilmann: we could use the responsibilities to make them public in the planned team page
Foodsaving platform
Medium and long-term planning: what features do we want in future? How do we add them?
- place for long discussion
- place for realtime discussion
- decision making
- knowledge base
- publications
- data archive
- member management
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Method 2: use existing tools, add connections/integrations: quick results, bigger ecosystem
Discussion?
→ needs a lot more research
Roadmap suggestions
Upcoming additions/changes.: User Requirements
Release 3
Setup separate deployment branch for the frontend repository
- Modify pickup dates/series (frontend-only)
- Public map of all groups (frontend-only)
- Show historic pickup dates
Release 4
- Track changes and show history (revisions) of user-defined fields to prevent abuse & accidents
- Enable login via Facebook account
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- (frontend-only, but could be made better in backend)
- Accepting a legal agreement
- Comment field for pickup dates (for duration, distribution point, mode of transportation for pickup ...)
- Feedback for historic pickup dates (e.g. amount of saved food)
Release 4
- Track changes and show history (revisions) of user-defined fields to prevent abuse & accidents
- Conversations between users and groups
Release 5
- Enable login via Facebook account (postponed)
Unscheduled ideas (brainstorming)
- Food sharing: food baskets, share points
- Sharing of things: text+image with a tag system
- Statistics (amount of saved food, number of pickups)Require certain mode of transportation for pickups (e.g. car if the expected amount of food is high)
- Trustworthiness rating for users
- Undo functionality for changes
- Accepting a legal agreement
- Introduction/trial pickups
- Mail notifications
- Facebook notifications
- Discussion forum for groups
- Group admins
- Work teams for groups
- more login options (Google, GitHub, Slack, ...)
- Native App for Android and iOS
- Deploying Pull-Request branches to some subdomain
Smaller(-ish) changes
- search-options for storeList / memberList / joinGroup
- not capitalizing name & password fields