MakingHistory/TODO.md

TODO

N.B. The terminology used herein is definitely a work in progress, ... along with all other aspects.

The aim for the initial phase(s) is to implement the following five functions, referenced from: https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-projects-are-tools-for-you-to-change-and-challenge-the-world-we-live-and-die-in/

• Link / Subscribe Plumb a new pipe into the network. A flow of content comes in or goes out. Each pipe can connect to any other function.

• Trust / Moderate Flow passes through a sieve. Trusted content moves smoothly; noise gets filtered. You can send flows straight through, into holding tanks, or split them into new pipes.

• Rollback Empty the tank, rewind a flow, or remove specific objects. Essential for correcting errors, spam, or bad data.

• Edit Metadata Add tags or notes to the “tail” of a data object. Metadata determines how content gets sieved and aggregated. This is the backbone of news curation in the OMN.

• Publish Add new content objects into the flow. Optionally editable. Publishing is just another pipe into the system. At the core sits the storage tank: a simple database holding all the flows.

Phase 1

The following terms are purely for differentiating between certain implementation details.

Key:

"PUBLIC":   Viewable when not logged in
"USER":     Viewable when logged in
"MOD":      Viewable when logged in with sufficient permissions

NOTE: There was no user in the original Indymedia, but there will be in this version. (Saunders) Meaning users who are or are not involved with the output of a given instance?

Behaviour

• 'Events'
  • A "federated flow" of events; an input feed of items related to the theme/topics of the MakingHistory instance. UI/X name may differ but this is short and useful for code.
  • All visible tags can be a flow, we like nature metaphors so we use flow; the only thing that would not flow is the mod (not trusted) items.
  • Emissary Template; based on 'inbox' ?
  • PUBLIC:
    • (syn. Newswire from Indymedia)
    • View
      • Curated (syn. Moderated for Indymedia)
      • Most recent N items
      • Dynamic load earlier items on request (e.g. scroll)
  • MOD:
    • (syn. Mod Flow from Indymedia)
    • Flagged items could end up here?
    • View
      • Uncurated (syn. Unmoderated from Indymedia ?)
      • (See PUBLIC)
    • Edit: Mark item(s) as "public"/"private"
      • Filters (hash tags, users, whole instances, ...)
      • Individual items/objects
• 'Stories'
  • (syn. Features from Indymedia)
  • Emissary Template(s)
    • based on ?
  • PUBLIC:
    • View
      • Filter by tag ?
      • Search ?
  • USER:
    • View
      • (See PUBLIC)
      • Save filter(s)
  • MOD:
    • View
      • (See USER)
    • Create/Edit
      • Interactive version of 'Federated Flow' to cite/reference
        • Filters
        • Checkboxes (or equivalent) per item
• 'Tagflow'
  • Emissary Template; based on ?
  • USER:
    • View
      • Tweet-deck style dashboard of parallel tag/stream views
    • Create/Edit
      • Custom streams based on filter set
        • Boolean logic

Structure

• Groups:

  • Emissary groups
  • Curators (syn. Moderators)
  • other?

  Rest looks fine, more questions :)