DJ worldmap

[lsmith]

Looks cool. Here is my first few thoughts

I would prefer to use my town and not my address (as a option).

I will not use facebook. sry



Maybe if you do get integrated with djtech tools forum, if you can get stuff from that database, you could get our existing location data. There could be a check box on our user cp options right where we enable our show location in forum option, it would say "show me on da map yo"

basically it will do a google map search with what you entered. if you just enter a city it will put you more or less in the middle of the city. if you then hit save, it will save the marker in that position and it will save the address as what you entered. only if you start to move the marker around will it automatically compute the address. so yeah .. you dont need to give away your exact home address

there could be a way to integrate with the forum db. its obviously a bit more work, since for facebook integration i can just drop in a plugin.

thx for thx for the feedback .. keep it coming!

[pier]

1) What are the kinds of fields you would want to see stored for users, events and stores?
Name, styles (that is for events and djs), type of event (session/live act), maybe some picture, and contact info

2) Should we even have stores and/or events on there?
Yes.

3) By what would yo
u want to be able to filter the markers on the map?
Dj/event/store, style(techno/house/prog/etc)

4) How should users authenticate? Facebook connect? Forum login? OpenID?
I'd say facebook because nowadays everyone has facebook... but maybe leave another option jut in case.

5) How should content be maintained? Should anyone be able to fix event or store? Only the person who created it (there should then probably be some way to notify that person)?
Admins (of course), and the owner for instant changes. The rest of the people after moderation of the owner, or in case the owner doesn't appear in x days the work goes to the admin.

[djhipnotikk]

i think a forum login to connect it would be the best.

filtering by event/stores/people

[lsmith]

i know the following is a bit cryptic, but i guess i didnt make it clear enough. i would also like to hear what should be storable for each type (users, events, stores):
http://code.google.com/p/djtt/source...ine/schema.yml

please have a look and tell me what attributes you would like to see.

[midifidler]

very cool!

if this is going to be run on the DJTT domain i think forum login makes the most sense

[basspenetrator]

very cool!

if this is going to be run on the DJTT domain i think forum login makes the most sense

+1, cause thankfully there are still some people without a FB account.. (me not included )

[lsmith]

yes .. the plan is to host it on DJTT. however we are hoping that it will be much much much bigger than the DJTT community. as such we will need to make sure that the general masses feel like they can adopt this without being sucked into the DJTT community.

that being said we might decide to not even advertise the DJTT forum based login to the rest of the world. Aka the rest of the world just knows how to login via Facebook, but all people on DJTT know that they can also use their Forum. I will not however bother to make it possible to use either or for the same account. If someone decide to migrate to the Facebook login, then they can just email me and I will fix it in the DB manually. this will also make it easy to get a bit of a critical mass from DJTT people. that being said, i would probably want to skip having to extend/integrate the VB forum profile, so this would just be the login (maybe even provide single sign on so that if you are logged in on the forum or map .. you are also logged in on the other side) what do you think of this approach?

the key thing is that obviously developer time is limited, but also the more complex you make something, the harder it becomes to use it and support.

[Lantau]

i would probably want to skip having to extend/integrate the VB forum profile, so this would just be the login (maybe even provide single sign on so that if you are logged in on the forum or map .. you are also logged in on the other side) what do you think of this approach?

I think SSO (single sign on) would be a good step, plus it would save you the trouble of having to store profile information (for example) as you could just link back to the VB profiles (because they'd have to exist for a given event on the map to be posted in the first place, and the user viewing it would have to be logged in also)

If you need any help I'm happy to lend a hand too (am a PHP/MySQL developer)

[lsmith]

i was hoping for a bit more feedback and more people exposing omissions in my concept. like currently my concept didnt even mention how to actually contact people on the map (which is obviously the key goal of this app). as such i realize i probably also didnt do a good job explaining what i was looking for.

so how about a different approach: maybe 2 or 3 have time to meet and chat about this on skype or IRC. with a more interactive discussion we can maybe figure out a proper concept for the entire app .. or at least figure out better questions to ask the community.

so any volunteers for a 1 hour chat sometime next week (ideally CET evenings ... but i can probably also accommodate a US friendly meeting time if necessary)?

[Afterhour Ali]

count me in. Monday or Tuesday would be best for me.
Got both, Skype and IRC ready.