OpenNews/hackdays/storyandalgorithm/supercoolio
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- Project name: Supercool.io
- One-line description of project: Local storage helper/library for news apps
- Your team: Matt, Mark, Irene
- Project URL(s), if applicable: http://supercool.io
- #supercoolio
- What are you building: Local storage helper/toolkit for news apps
- Who is it for: Developers of news apps
- Your goal for this weekend: A data model for a few news item types like article, audio, video, map and working functions to store and retrieve those items.
- Your starting point: Building custom models on top of backbone.js for MVC functionality. Basing data models on rNews/Schema.org spec.
- How is this project useful? It's useful to provide reusable code that solves common problems such as offline use of apps, faster loading in the browser, cross-browser compatibility, etc. Trying to make it easier for us to do news apps development repetitively.
- Where is this project going and what lessons/concepts can be applied to other projects? It will be on github and I will continue working and the rest of the world is welcome. News app teams across organizations will be able to use common features allowing them to collaborate more efficiently, but one of the major outstanding questions is how to get people to work on this type of tool together--it's doable, but can be hard to convene people.
