SIB Feature List

Current functionality of Site-in-a-BoxTM and future improvements that we have not yet agreed on as being tickets.

Current functionality

  1. User accounts (divided up into Mission Presidents, Missionaries (current and alumni), Friends and Members)
  2. Missionaries can choose a mission president (or more than one if applies)
  3. Missionaries can choose their companions
  4. Photo Galleries
  5. Events/Reunions
  6. News
  7. Mission Info
  8. Stories
  9. Chat
  10. Emailing updates to folks
  11. Some database conversion tool functionality
  12. CAPTCHA

Additional Features

General Improvements

  1. Allow some sort of friending/following or a way for missionaries to invite their converts and tie that in with their profile.
  2. Tagging in the photo galleries
  3. Users add videos (this would definitely be an optional one - adding video is really intensive and I would hate to slow down the system or cause mission.net to incur any more cost than they already have) - perhaps link to YouTube? or other video
  4. Allow the missions to create areas/sectors that could then be selected as a whole (i.e. areas served in)
  5. Allow the missionaries to choose what dates they served in what area/sector
  6. RMDB 4.1g conversion tool for SIB - has this been completed already?

HTML/CSS/Theme improvements

  1. A simple theme selector with the ability to add in a header/logo for those that are a little less computer oriented.
  2. An easier way for the more savvy of us to create our own stylesheet and upload images for our own design. If the HTML is structured correctly there shouldn't be a huge reason for folks to be dinking with it.
  3. Allow better homepage adjustment (adding and placing the different modules (what's new, number of records, languages, etc, etc, etc)

Communication/Privacy

  1. Instant email notifications
  2. More fine-grained settings for digest, privacy and other notifications

Social Networking

  1. post items to social networking sites
  2. allow users to add things like their facebook profile and photo badges to profiles
  3. integrate with Facebook Connect so that users can login using their Facebook login (or twitter login)
  4. Facebook Livestream to replace current chat
  5. other Facebook and Twitter integration - keep photos, comments and user profiles on mission.net