True Fans Mircofunding App
This is an application that uses videos to boost participation and promotion of the True Fans program.
Previous Work
Earlier work on Microfunding was pursued by Nikolay Georgiev and a group of remote collaborators, but the work wasn't completed. Brad Lewis took over the project from Nikolay, and Jacob Dalton joined afterwards. On Nikolay's advice it was decided to integrate the microfunding application directly with the wiki rather than building a separate site on a CMS. This allows us to use the wiki to provide internationalization and account management.
Project Documents
- Brad's GDrive Folder
- Project Progress and Outline GDoc
- Project Github Repository
- Jacob's Test Server
Demo Video
Dedicated Project Visit
Jacob Dalton is doing a Dedicated Project Visit to Factor e Farm from November 20th to December 21st to finish the True Fans Microfunding App. See: Jacob Dalton Dedicated Project Visit Application.
Feature Set Before Departure:
- Record video from webcam and upload to youtube.
- Ability to input youtube urls of previously uploaded videos.
- Save video in database.
- Save video message in database.
- Email a message to a list of emails with a link to saved video and saved message.
In development:
- Pick a group a facebook friends to send a message to.
- Send messages to facebook friends' feed (aka wall).
- Send message to user's feed.
- Create a True Fans action in user's timeline.
Planned Development:
- Twitter Integration.
- 'Best of' video playlist integration.
DPV Schedule
- Pre-Arrival: Polished prototype, blog draft (November 16th)
- Week 1: test the prototype with the team at FeF, bug-fixes, collect feedback
- Success metric: Blog post, strategy meeting, first usability tests, and usability update 1.
- Week 2: Make FeF videos, solicit feedback from stakeholders, feature freeze, adjust and iterate
- Success metric: FeF videos, completed twitter and playlist features, email to sample of True Fans, usability update 2.
- Week 3: beta release to a subset of True Fans, adjust and iterate
- Success metric: remote user testing report, usability update 3.
- Week 4: full release via blog post and email, adjust and analyze
- Success metric: Public release, initial analysis, usability update 4.