Monday, February 20, 2012

Subversioning and Licensing!

Okay so my first endeavor is to set up a good method of source control. So I'm mucking through subversion's documentation. Once I've got this sorted, myself and anyone who is interested will be able to download a copy of the source code and other files and make changes and check them in.

I'll also be looking into putting a page to track changes and issues that come up. To this end I'd love feedback from anyone about what they like, don't like, or want ever so badly.

I'm thinking of releasing this whole thing under creative commons, since it's the simplest open license I know of. I suspect that I'd run into White Wolf legal entanglements if I actually even tried to make money off of this project in any official sense.

Again, anyone who is familiar with HTML, Javascript, and/or CSS would be definitely welcome in this endeavor!

Friday, February 17, 2012

A New Project!

Back in 2010, I developed a custom web application for a New World of Darkness larp I was running with several friends of mine. This app allowed players to at any point in time view their current character sheet. While the game was sadly forced to close its doors in the following year, I have held on to this application figuring that when the next game started in our social circle, I would dust it off and offer it up for their uses.

Today, after feeling energized by watching a video by Extra Credits about developers, I decided to Google 'Django Forums' and see what came up. In a split second I found an article that would help me build a rudimentary forum using the same Django Framework. This being the very same framework I built the character manager in, my head began to swim. In it's first implementation, I used the Simple Machines Forum, and leveraged a module that let me use the username/passwords from the SMF forum for people to log in and see their character sheets. If I were to build the forum itself from the ground up, I could give the ability for a much more tightly integrated experience. Also, it would give myself, and any other prospective forum owner total control on how the forum functions.

I need to sit down and start outlining everything I would want this to do, and I am looking for any and all input towards this effort. If anyone wants to be involved in the process (I could especially use visual web designers!) That would be awesome!

I'll be posting more of this as my plans solidify, and probably open a project on github or some other code hosting site.