Roadmap

2023

1ST QUARTER

• Thing:
  • List
  • List

2022

4TH QUARTER

• API:
  • Add Charity Navigator, Candid and IRS 990 data to an organizational tab in Global View application pages
  • Supplement Torque with Airtable data

• Curation and Custom Wikis
  • Search ("Make Search Search"): Remove filters and related features
  • Browse:
    • Using the current Search filters to create a new Browse interface
    • Create a cleaner, more intuitive CSV download interface
    • Develop a data coding plan that supports better browsing

• Data Sharing
  • Create a data dictionary for data maintained by the following systems:
    • Torque
    • Airtable
    • Salesforce
    • Wagtail/BSN

• Design
  • Deploy LFC-branded design layout across all wiki pages

• Global View
  • Refine user experience based on experience from LFC staff

• MediaWiki Upgrade
  • Upgrade MediaWiki to 1.38.4
  • Resolve book printing
  • Upgrade MediaWiki to 1.39 (November)
  • Define upgrade strategy

• Seabiscuit:
  • Deploy a support system infrastructure:
    • Ticketing (Zammad)
    • Call routing (Twilio Flex)
  • Redesign the standard wiki template to accommodate new competition format

• Similar Pages
  • Deploy Similar Pages code and run weekly
  • Create LFC GitHub site and copy Spencer Ferguson Dryden's code to new repos

• SimpleBook Replacement
  • Portfolio management

• Submittal Interface
  • Estimate cost of upgrading and deploying Hypha

• Analytics
  • Investigate Matamo analytics and integrating with MediaWiki
    • This is speculative for Q4, and may get bumped to Q1 2023

3RD QUARTER

• API
  • Data supplementing:
    • From Candid, Charity Navigator, Giving Tuesday
    • 990 forms (see Pro Publica Non-Profit Data Explorer)
  • Investigate sharing data with MIT Solve
• Data Sharing
  • Support LfC's effort to define their data sharing policies
    • Current policy
• Design
  • Begin deploying LfC brand standards across new competitions

• Enhanced Curation: Create features to filter, edit and share curated collections of proposals with donors and partners
  • √ Mock-up an enhanced curation interface for testing by Lever for Change staff
  • Build a curation interface (revising existing Search page) to include:
    • Search
    • Filters
      • Fixed:
        • Top proposals
        • By competition
        • By geography
      • Scalable (Permits user to emphasize the weight of a filter on the returned results)
    • Dynamic updating of returned results
  • Permit further curation of results:
    • Select which elements of a proposal to share stripping out unneeded parts (fields, attachments)
    • Add notes, explanations
  • Share the results as well-packaged units with high production value
    • Miniwikis
    • Books (PDFs)
• Similar Pages
  • Deploy Spencer's app
  • Allow user to manually link similar pages
• Submittal Interface
  • Create a demo submittal interface using the Hypha grant management system.
• √ User Accounts and Groups
  • Deactivate users no longer requiring access to Torque Repurpose existing user groups to meet LfC's current needs

2ND QUARTER

• API
  • √ Import competition application data into Torque via the API

• Stage 2
  • √ Accept and properly display Stage 2 attachments and control visibility

• Video
  • √ Log and store competition videos
  • √ Develop protocols for storing videos as competitions conclude
• Universal Template
  • √ Create a universal display template to be used across all competition

2023

1ST QUARTER

• Donor Deliberation Support
  • Comments
  • Voting
• Okta (or other ID management)
  • Deploy Lever for Change-managed ID management system
• Partnerships
  • Wikimedia Foundation partnership