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