Status Board
Ideas
Here are the ideas behind the status board script:
- Self hosted and open source
- Simple and elegant code
- Modular and easy to add new status widgets
Current Widgets
- Authentic Jobs
- Google Analytics
- GitHub commit log
- GitHub issues
- Pingdom
- RSS
- Stocks
- Weather
Widget Ideas
- Basecamp
- News Feeds
- Bus / Train / Traffic status
- Radio - Spotify, Grooveshark, etc. Would play based off api.
- BitBucket API
- Pancake Payments
- Anything that you always want to look at during the day
Requirements
Since the application is built on Laravel, a PHP framework, the requirements are PHP 5.3+ and a compatible web server.
Installation and Usage
Installation is very easy. Upload the files to your server and visit http://example.com/index.php. All of the default widgets should load. To manage widgets, edit application/config/widgets.php
. The application also supports the creation of multiple boards. These are configured in application/config/boards.php
and you'll need to register another route in application/routes.php
.
Remember, this is alpha code so use at your own risk.
Help Out
If you are interested in helping out let me know. The more help the better ;) I haven't figured the best route for project planning so if you have any ideas on the best way let me know. When I mentioned this idea over twitter I did get a lot of positive feedback so I feel this project is worth pursuing.
Also until I get everything planned consider subscribing to a newsletter. I am planning to use that so I can contact everyone to schedule a time and place for v1 planning.