Building Fusefly

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Using Elgg to build FuseFly, the social network for homeschoolers.

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  • 1. Building FuseFly Brett Profitt August 15th, 2009 Elgg Camp Boston 2009 http://www.fusefly.com

2. What is FuseFly? FuseFly is asocial networkconnecting homeschoolers around the world ... [that provides] ... a secure environment for teens [with] areas for both students and parents. http://www.fusefly.com/pg/static_content/about_us 3. What is FuseFly? FuseFly is asocial network connecting homeschoolers around the world ... [that provides] ... asecure environment for teens [with] areas for bothstudents and parents . http://www.fusefly.com/pg/static_content/about_us 4. FuseFly is...a Social Network

  • Elgg as a base.(Upgraded to 1.X)

5. Open Source. 6. Easily supplemented with custom plugins. 7. Loads of third party plugins. 8. FuseFly is...Safe

  • Registration requires parent accounts to authorize student accounts.

9. Walled Garden approach to content. 10. Word list censor plugin. 11. Moderator system. 12. FuseFly is... for StudentandParents

  • Reach feature parity with our feeder sites.
  • Students: MySpace, Facebook, You Tube.

13. Parents: Yahoo Groups, Homeschool.com. Show students this is fun. 14. Show parents this is useful and safe. 15. FuseFly in Action 16. FuseFly Customizations

  • All implemented as plugins.
  • (Ok, I changed about 5 lines of code in core for custom theme support.)

21 in-house (+ 8 custom themes). 17. 9 from the Elgg Community. 18. Community Plugins

  • Be Tom

19. Tidy Pics 20. Embed Video 21. Play List 22. Vazco Group Mailer 23. Group Extender 24. Poll

  • Custom Index*

25. Custom Dashboard* 26. Event Calendar* 27. Chat* 28. Reported Content* * Modified versions of core / community plugins. 29. In-House Plugins

  • Expirationdate

30. Badges 31. Guardians 32. Uncaptcha 33. Omni Inviter 34. Any Text 35. Static Content

  • Knowledge Base

36. Big Brother 37. Directory 38. phpBB 39. My Theme 40. Demerits 41. Hidden Tags

  • Contact

42. User Status 43. In-House Plugins

  • Expirationdate

44. Badges 45. Guardians 46. Uncaptcha 47. Omni Inviter 48. Any Text 49. Static Content

  • Knowledge Base

50. Big Brother 51. Directory 52. PhpBB 53. My Theme 54. Demerits 55. Hidden Tags

  • Contact

56. User Status 57. Student Gotchas

  • Kids are smart.

58. Absolute power corrupts; Relative power corrupts teens. 59. Balancing individuality with usability. 60. Parent Gotchas

  • Kids are smarter than their parents.

61. Parents worry about their kids. 62. Parents need a why. 63. Building FuseFly Brett Profitt August 15th, 2009 Elgg Camp Boston 2009 http://www.fusefly.com