I lead a volunteer community targeting positive and creative ways to bring more peace and well-being into the world. We’re aiming to improve the lives of people who are homeless around the world (with one project), and also building our micro-volunteering hub.
After finding out that Discus, the industry standard for commenting systems, had been bought by Zeta global and was selling user data - We couldn’t use it in our build due to our community values statement. An incredible opensource project and community like Discourse was what i dreamed of as a two way commenting system.
We also needed to build user profiles, messaging, tools, admin areas, etc, and I realised that it might be possible to integrate Discourse into the platform, basically strapping it on as a backend and community building hub for any website. So partnering with the Docus plugin, that’s what we began building.
It’s going great. we have messaging and notifications hooked up. I currently handle the Discourse side, and it’s getting a bit out of my depth as i’m not really a developer. We need someone, or a few people, to join the build and play around with Discourse API’s and turn Discourse into a plug and play community integration tool. Integrating things like User Levels, Hash Tags, Admin/Moderator Status - basically pulling out API’s for devs in the React side to hook into, creating a seamless transition between discourse and an external site.
We’re building in React and Meteor. That side has a few people working on it already, it’s a Discourse hobbyist we’re looking for to help out on the Discourse side. Pretty much everything will be Open Sourced for all to play with.
You can have a look at The Brighter Tomorrow Map here.
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Also, if you know anyone else with any skills who’d like to join in please do invite them. The community is open to all 