Labs/OpenWebHomePage/Demos

It would be nice for the Open Web community to have a place to see demonstrations of the great showcases and technology usage that is out there in the wild.

The goal of the Open Web Demos site is to have a neutral ground to showcase Open Web technology.

It shares some of the ideas of Chrome Experiments (e.g. the showcase itself) but differs in a few key areas:

• The directory should be open for others to crowd source
  • Need to work out the policing model of course
• The focus isn't one browser, but rather all of the leading edge work
  • It is OK to have entries in the showcase that tell you which browsers are supported and work of course
• The "DEMO" aspect of the demos is that users can riff of of the code. The goal here is that a developer can "fork" a project, inline change the code (using say, Bespin) and save that for others to play with and riff off of.
  • A la Algorithm Ink
  • NOTE: licensing issues, and this can be version 2 :)
• Tagging: Folks can tag demos for cross pollination
  • allow voting and such too?
• Learning: We want to go into more detail on some of the demos and "feature" them by interviewing the code authors and doing code walk-throughs. The goal is that a developer can take a look at the demo and then learn how THEY can do it

What is needed?

Mocks

Media:Demo_Detail_Page.pdf

Media:Demo_Gallery_Main_Page.pdf

Main

• Default ("hot"): Display demos with optional admin selected demos first, followed by demos in order of user-voted hotness. Admin featured demos are not marked separately.
• Another tab for "new", in order of newest submitted to oldest.
• Search box down the side. Search by free text, or by selecting one of more technology tags.
• Sort by - user selected sort
• Give feedback (standard feedback form)
• Submit a demo

Detail

• Click through from main gallery to see one demo
• Thumbnail of demo, click through to actual demo or via "Launch Demo" button
• Badges show which browsers demo works with
• Voting: users can click "Cool!" or "Meh", which gives a hotness score for ranking on the main page
• Author information
• Demo video/screencast of demo in action (if you don't have a modern browser, on a slow connection, on a slow machine) [optional]
• Developer interview or screencast video [optional]
• Text description of how it works or link to off site article

Upload

• User registration may not be required to upload, but we should get people's email addresses at a minimum
  • Possible OpenID
  • Possible Wordpress integration
• Users can upload thumbnail (/screencast?), admin has option to override/replace
• Users upload code in a specified format (what format? zip file)

Admin interface

• Moderate (approve/deny/edit) submissions
• Select/deselect featured demos
• Upload screencasts of demos and screencasts of developer interviews
• General db admin
• Malware scanning of uploaded material: manual for now, automate in a later version

What data do we need to collect?

• URL
• Author
  • name
  • email
  • twitter
  • fb
  • ff
  • url
  • location
• Short description
• Long description
• Tags
• Rating
• Code
• License
• Screenshot(s)
• Video(s) of it at work
• Comments