The Next Sprint

Before I tidy up the code so far (it's a mess trust me) ... the next Sprint will be all about integration. The reason for this is that it's all very well having a noodley toy with which people can browse and explore and vanity surf but unless it is integrated into a tool that someone uses very regularly then it will never have the chance to prove itself.

The tool we will be using as a collaborative platform will be Cyn.in because ...

• it has a plethora of tools, wikis, blogs, discussions, events etc
• it has a lovely UI
• it is written in Plone and python is my tool of choice

My work following Easter will look something like this...

• Find out more about Plone (I've bought a book :-)
• Create a script that inserts objects into the ZODB (in this case events crawled from the University site)
• Create a new "content type"... I would quite like to create a "Location" object. 
• Create (or install) an RSS reader so we can add tweets, feed etc. 
• See if there's a LATEX option for the kinky scientists
• Make a portlet to display this stuff
• Lighten the overall look n feel.
• Make a "content parser" so that key terms in a taxonomy can be automatically replaced (e.g. SIPIG (a commitee), VC011 (my room number) and dps4 (my boss) with links to the relevant items.
• Create (or install) a JSON reader so that we can potentially dynamically find "related people" and display them on peoples' profiles

That looks like two weeks work to me (or more).... I may be gone sometime...