First pseudo-public release?

[furilo]

Should we try to do a first friends-release? List here what things you consider needed to do it:

• Register domain (we have trackdon[s].[org|com]
• Decide how to release Decide how to release #27
• Set up production environment Set up production environment #25
• Close New Donation: Only allow the input of existing projects + add an option for "New Project" #6 New Donation: Use gem Select2
• Close When adding a donation, if project creation needed, display mandatory fields for new project inline #44 When adding a donation, if project creation needed, display mandatory fields for new project inline
• Close Fix basic responsive issues #36 Fix basic responsive issues
• Close Add permalink for donation #11 Add permalink donation
• Close Edit & Remove donations #24 Edit & remove donations
• Close Add a language switcher #13 Add a language switcher
• Close Finish languages for launch #31 Finish languages for launch

[jorgesancha]

Hey, sounds great. Apart from what you mention and solving a couple bugs here and there that I need to create issues for, here are the things that I'd consider doing (feel free to copy the ones you agree with from the list below to the initial issue description):

• Login with Twitter/Github... #7 Login with (at least) Twitter. This is fairly simple to do and quite useful (doesn't force people to register to yet another service)
• External badges for users and organizations #28 Have you thought about creating a sort of badge that people can include on their website? It would be a public mini version of the profile page that can be included via iframe or js. This would help with the discovery of the service.
• Polish the organizations page #29 Polish the organizations page - maybe we could differentiate between most popular (at the top, with logos maybe? and total donations money tracked or similar) and the rest.
• User's page improvements #30 Users' page will soon get out of hand - should we include paging? Also, should we consider adding other info per user in that list? total donations or total amount or donated to X projects?
• Independency discussion #32 (partially ;) Analytics - I would start with Google Analytics or similar. I think Track clicks to project's pages (url and donation_url) #9 is important but I'm pretty sure this can be done with Google Analytics too? Mind you, it might make sense to keep that knowledge in-house too.

#33 One thing that would be great (if it were possible - we'd need to check with each organization) would be for people to automatically add their donations; if some of these organizations had a feed of donors or a way to integrate, we could automatically fill in the donations for the users after they give us permission to do so. For instance, I've donated to Wikipedia a few times in my life, but I don't remember all of them or when I did them. Not sure how feasible this is, but given that this project aims to bring donations out in the open and encourage people to donate more, I'm sure that the organizations would be open to the idea if they like Trackdons. Once we have an accessible version, I think it would be worth emailing people like Pledgie, Wikipedia, Kickstarter, etc... to see whether this would be possible.

[furilo]

Hey, as you can see I've created some sub-issues to be able to have "atomic" discussions. Trying to be as "lean" as possible and to not delay launch too much, I think all your issues will have to tackled, but not for launch ;) Feel free to comment.

[jorgesancha]

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