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A place to slap down all the blue sky "Wouldn't it be nice if..." type stuff.

Contents

Organization and Process

Document Management

Having poured through theforum archives, I constantly come across links to information stored on long-gone m.e.o. sites. Old survey results, old IA documents, stats, etc. If we'd had a central storing place, those could have been saved.

It took some effort also, to get ahold of our logo files. Tara had a reconstructed version, Martin had a version, then I found a bunch of them archived on aardvark's personal site.

It's too bad that we don't have the ability to compare data we collect today with data collected in the past. But it would be nice if we could find a way to archive important org-related documents long term.

User Info

Countries Online

Instead of the dreadfully dull '3 users, 4 guests online' type block, it'd be really cool to have a list of the countries that online users are from. So it'd be

 Users online from [.uk] [.kw] [.ca] [.us]' (etc) 

where [.foo] are eg flags

Achieved using custom user fields, so authoritative user supplied data, rather than inferred from IP addresses.

Workflow

Scheduled publication/expiry

Separate publish and create dates, and only make stuff live on publish date. Also add a publish until date, so can auto-expire old stuff (eg jobs)