Things that LothSter should do, how to make LothSter better, etc.
Another interesting [http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/03/27/ldap_ab.html article]. Its about LDAP address books specifically.
Ok, so this is what we want LothSter to be:
-You'd go to http://addressbook.tentacle.net
-You'd login, perhaps with a generic password like "Password is Sid the Snake's girlfriends name" And everyone knows she's called Nancy. Or perhaps individual accounts, whatever makes the most sence.
-Addressbook should support mutliple users changing their own files, and an update feature where you can update your files from their files. So if Chris changes his info, and Andrea updates her info, she gets Chris' changed info.
-Format should be very standard so anyone can export the info into their own addressbook, email program, etc.
Add your own comments etc.
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/groupsuite/ Groupsuite] claims to have an open sourced address book, going to check it out some. Naw, not useful looking.
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/weborganizer Weborganizer] looks more promising. Promising me to hate sourceforge, no descriptions of what it does eh? I'll just read the code, bitches.
[http://javascript.internet.com/cookies/address-book.html javascript addressbookish thing] is part of what we'd need I'm guessing.
[http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/03/27/ldap_ab.html Interesting Article].
Bling bling, [http://ldap-abook.sourceforge.net/ Idap] wins.
[http://rolodap.sourceforge.net/ Rolodap] looks fancier than Idap, its php and seems perhaps more currently worked on.
A domain name could be registered to point to LothSter, perhaps oldelves.net, or lothster.net. Anyone have any thoughts, its ten bucks a year for a domain.
[http://www.peopleaggregator.com|People Aggregator Readme] [http://svn.2nw.net/pa/trunk/docs/README]
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/oab/ Online Address Book]
I wanted an elegant way of keeping a database of folks I knew in college so this is the design that was decided upon for several reasons:
# Anyone can modify it, so stuff can stay current easily.
# It's easy to set up, KevinDorne already had WikiWikiWeb running on tentacle.net.
# It's passive (you point your web brower to it when you want to).
# It's active (there is an optional email list to join so you can announce and discuss stuff).
--ChrisRust 4/17/04.
Someone should pick out a cool picture for the LothSter front page, check out these [http://www.tentacle.net/~chrisr/photos.html photos].
You can add photos by including the url of the photo in the text of a wiki page like this:
<nop>[http://domain.com/image.jpg]</nop>
![http://domain.com/image.jpg]</nop>](http://domain.com/image.jpg]</nop>){kind=link}
--C
Open sourced [http://www.plaxo.com plaxo] would be ideal.
- Easy of use and clarity of design are tanamount.
*Would [http://www.tikiwiki.org tikiwiki] bust it for the better?
- Optional goodies:
- *Friendster style (what does Friendster do anyhow, I was scared to give them my info?)
- *Emailing list
- *List archive?
- *Domain name?
- *Fireworks, BBQ's?
--C.