Repository for IdeaMango (or whatever we end up calling it)

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ABOUT THE WEBSITE (short - scroll down for long description):
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This website is all about sharing ideas and turning them into reality with people.
The website will be broken up into two main categories - ideas, and projects

Users can create an idea page, where they talk about their idea and why they think its good and why they want it to happen.
Users can create a project page - this is used to describe the project you are working on, whether it spawned from an idea on the website or not. On an idea page there will be a "turn it into a project" button which will notify all of the people associated with the idea that someone has begun working on turning the idea into reality.

Users can vote up ideas and projects if they like them. (I may only allow this feature for ideas)
    The purpose of this is to sort ideas and projects by what is most liked by the community.
    This will encourage the best ideas (the ones that alot of people think would be useful) to
    get done by bringing the most attention to them. *UPDATE FRIDAY MAY 17 2017* I don't think I
    will include this feature - vote manipulation through bots makes this at best, useless.

Users can post jobs or tasks associated with their project that they need help with. This will be a description ofo what you ened done, they type of skills needed to get it done, and tags to describe the job / skills.

Users can find ideas / projects/ jobs by going to their respective pages and looking at the idea / project / job feed. Users can sort these feeds by "Most liked", "most popular" (most viewed) and "most recent".
Users can also use search terms to filter by tags, search in title / descriptions / author, etc.

Additionally, each idea and project will have a forum associated with it so that the community can discuss the idea/project. The owner of the idea/project can set permissions on who can use the forum.

I want this to be a site that emphasizes the possibility of getting stuff done WITHOUT MONEY. We see this all over the internet with open source projects, why not make this sort of thing more prevalent in our everyday lives? If you want to involve money with a project, you can exchange contact info with others and do it privately, the site will not provide a service for such exchanges.

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ABOUT THE WEBSITE (long):
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  I envision the website being a place where people can share their ideas about anything, whether it is a big idea such as the reorganizing of the US economic system or a small idea like an iphone application. If you have a cool idea, and you want to share it to the community just post it on the site - whether its to discuss the idea and refine it, to make it reality, or to just share the idea for the heck of it.

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IDEAS
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  To share an idea, one creates an idea page. This will be similar to a kickstarter project - it
  will have a short description of your idea to be displayed when searching for ideas, and it
  will have the detailed description with pictures and videos and whatever you would like to use
  to describe your idea. Users can "subscribe" to an idea if they like it - this will allow you
  to get email updates from it whenever the idea creator changes the idea (or just wants to send
          updates to the subscribers). You can also "like" an idea - similar to voting up on
  reddit. This, like reddit, serves as a way of displaying the ideas that are the most popular
  among users. 
  *NOTE MAY 19 2017* Probably will not include "like" feature bc of bot manipulation

Each idea page also has its own discussion forum that can or cannot be used to discuss the idea. The owner of the idea controls who can use the forum.

  Ideas will show up on the main ideas page - (ideas.php) this will serve as a hub for finding
  ideas that you are interested in. The top of the "idea display box" will have a search bar
  where you can search for tags that were previously selected by the creator of the idea to find
  things you are interested in. I also think I will allow users to control where the search terms
  are searched in (i.e. tags, title, description, author name, author username, location etc) You
  can also filter what is displayed by "most popular" (ideas that have the most page views),
  "most liked" (ideas with the most "likes"), and "most recent". Finally, like on kickstarter,
  you can choose to look at ideas within a certain location. Right now I have the location
  structure as a hierarchical model starting with city at the bottom, then region (or state/
          province), and country at the top. This location model will be more important for the
  "projects" section (b/c projects are about getting ppl together to work on stuff) - I would
  imagine alot of ideas will not have an associated location, but most projects will.

I want the main ideas page to be as versatile, but also as easy to use as possible so as to best facilitate connecting users with the ideas that interest them.

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PROJECTS
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  If you see an idea you like and you want to get started making it happen, you can click the "turn into project" button on the idea page. This will notify the users associated with the idea that a project has been created.

  Also if you just want to share a project you are working on with the community, you can just post your project page tothe site, no need for it to be a project from an idea already on the site.

  You can format your project page to have it display your description, updates, pictures, goals, motivation, and whatever else you want to say about it. Users can subscribe to the projects just like ideas, but they can also become "members" upon confirmation from the project owner. This designates teh people that are actively working on the project, and the owner can decide how to structure the permissions on teh forum and messages he sends out based on subscribers / members.

  An additional feature of the project is that the owner can post "jobs". This will be a description of what you need done, the type of skills needed to get it done, the location that the job needs to be done in (if any) and tags to describe the job / skills.
Jobs will also be searchable in the same ways that projects /ideas are. When searched it will show the associated project.

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USERS
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  A user page will

Perhaps I should call the website "do stuff together" because I want the website to not only be a place where you share your idea, but you get like minded individuals to discuss and refine the diea, then you turn it into reality with those people. So its really more about getting together and doing stuff you want to do. It can be anything, art, programming, music, screenwriting, engineering, science, politics, community betterment projects, etc etc. You can look at the ideas/ projects in your area by sorting by location. (ideas and projects will have an associated location). Each project/idea will also have tags as another method of search.