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AgoraKit Roadmap

Collected goals for the project.

Contribute an idea for discussion or propose a priority change by making a pull request!

Consider refining large projects into smaller ones before moving them higher in the list. Think about long term goals, then pick a good first iteration to prioritize that can be completed more easily. Momentum is more important than completeness. It isn't valuable until it ships.

¹ Proposed for NGI funding

Planned

Ordered list of prioritized projects. Everything in this section should have clear outcomes defined.

Simplify hosting and development with Docker¹

Attracting new developers and server administrators requires a simple, standardized installation workflow.

  • Docker/OCI containers and (docker-)compose are a suitable approach for that:
    • Provide a production compose setup
    • Provide a development compose setup (replacing Laravel Sail)
  • Document the process
  • Document alternatives (e.g. a separate Docker for sqlite)

Improve documentation¹

  • End user documentation is nonexistent
  • Group admin documentation needs improvement

Allow external members¹

Allow people outside a closed group to contact the group. Either by web form, email or using a fediverse account (real inbox for groups).

  • Allow a group to publish public content (currently iCal and RSS are supported)
    • Provide a fediverse outbox at least for public content (public events including those in private groups are a good candidate)
  • Extend users model & database
    • Allow external users to be stored using their fediverse handle instead of email
    • Add new “external” role to group members
    • Nice to have: Users authenticate with fediverse account
  • External requests (from outside a group)
    • When an “external” person contacts a group, a new discussion is created and labeled as “from an external person”
    • Group can discuss as usual and the whole discussion is sent to the external person as well
    • Example: Basecamp external client feature

Add initial Fediverse access¹

Allow groups to communicate with the Fediverse. First step toward further integration.

  • Select an ActivityPub library
  • Auth & external contact from ActivityPub
  • Allow Fediverse users to follow groups
    • Outbox for groups containing public events

Improve mobile experience¹

AgoraKit is a progressive web app (PWA) with 40% of users on small screen. Users expect to receive real-time notifications.

  • Native notifications using web push notifications + user interface to configure those per group and per user (same as email notification preferences UI)
  • Audit all pages on mobile for usability and identify the biggestst challenges for remediation

Improve accessibility

  • Audit for WCAG 2.0 AA status as a first-pass and remediate as needed

Improve content integration

  • Support embed, iCal, RSS

Improve localizaiton

  • Review current localization system for potential improvements & automation
  • Identify which new locales should be prioritized

Enhance calendar

  • Public calendar of events
  • Enhance event form: some fields (location) exist in db but not in form

Ideas

Not yet prioritized. Order doesn't matter. Let's collect all the ideas (wild or not) here.

Discussions

  • Store attachments in a separate directory in files, called "discussions" for example
  • Fix the "scroll to latest unread item" functionality on discussion list
  • Provide a nice navigation for longer discussions (ex: Flarum & Discourse) in a simple way
  • Add inline image display

Files

  • Provide Webdav access to files per group.
    • For connected users, show all their groups, each in a separate folder when using webdav
  • Provide WOPI interface to allow integration with online office tools
    • Collabora Online, OnlyOffice, and Office seems to use this not very known standard
  • Allow drag-and-drop file upload
  • Preview more file types on file embed and show view

Notifications

  • Add notifications
    • Enable/disable per channel
    • Per group, per user
    • Nice defaults and simple checkboxes
    • Examples:
      • "get an email / webpush when an event is created in group xyz"
      • "When someone joins / leaves / etc. the group xyz"
  • Allow notifications to be grouped in the summary email
  • Add notification types for group admins

Calendar

  • Provide caldav access
  • Reccurent event support

Documents

Users asked the ability to create and edit documents (if possible collaboratively). Two options :

  • Use existing Onlyoffice / Collabora / office tools (see #161)
    • Allow to edit files (see WOPI/Webdav support idea for files)
  • Create a new document content type
    • Allow users to create and edit documents inside the files tab.
    • Search and implement a lightweight online editor (https://www.blocknotejs.org/ & https://milkdown.dev/ looks both interesting, based on prosemirror and using the collaboration engine (websocket server needed))

Simple install

  • Use Phing-based build to provide a file archive users can upload directly to install AgoraKit on shared hosting