Austrian Economics Wiki:Development

Introduction:

Mises.org is an open content and open source website - meaning that all the content as well as all the source code is available and free for anyone to use. Resources for the development of Mises.org were primarily located at the old community wiki but I would like to move them to the Mises Wiki, as it is better supported and maintained. DavidVeksler 19:12, 12 July 2011 (MSD)

Overview of Mises.org Development Resources:

Ohloh: source code development overview
WebSVN Browse and download Mises.org source code
MisesDev Mises.org Public Development Discussion Group
MisesDB dump: latest copy of the Mises.org Database
SVN access SVN access URL. Use guest/guest for anon access, request account from webmaster@mises.org to commit
Ideas for Mises.org Ideas for New Mises.org Features

Downloading Mises.org Content

Bittorrent URL's

HTTP Access:

How to help: opportunities for volunteers

While anyone can contribute, here are the roles we really need:

Creative: Creative art and web designers to create amazing new interfaces
Tech Support: Technically competent tech-support kind of people
Coders: .Net/C# programmers
A/V media: Audio/visual media experts
SysAdmins: System administrators for Windows and Linux
Project Managers: “feature owners” and organizers of the development effort
Testers: People to test new features and track down bugs

Mises.org TODO/Ideas List

A list of ideas to implement on Mises.org, ranked from 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest) priority. Rank 1-2 is a nice to have. 3-4 are near to medium needs, 5 must be implemented ASAP.

While this may seem like a long list, it used to be much longer! Contact webmaster@mises.org or MisesDev for details.

1: Translate Mises.org into other languages.
1: Automatically transcribe and index all audio/video content on Mises.org
1: Setup an Austrian Economics progress metric to track growth of mises.org community and web traffic
1: Book/media rental subscription service (like Netflix)
At least for books that are freely downloadable, for those that would rather pay a little money to read a hard copy rather than read it on a computer screen, but don't want to, or can't afford to, buy the book
1: Organize the supporting arguments of Austrian economics as a directed graph or network (some nodes representing propositions that are either premises or conclusions of arguments) and the arcs connecting the nodes on the computer screen representing things like a logical supporting relationship. One could then browse through the logic of Austrian economics in a graph (network) format.
create mobile version of mises.org like m.mises.org
1: Have RSS/ATOM feeds for the Mises.org media content split up by year (or quarter) first released. My rationale is that for those of us who want the whole firehose of media content, having a time organized split will make it easier to manage as the past time feeds will never change.
2: Gradually move Mises.org, in part or in full, to an open-source .NET CMS platform. Lots of things could be done better code-wise, and lots of it has already been done in existing platforms. Looking at the back-end domain model, N2 CMS (http://www.n2cms.com/) might be very useful.

o Pros: Deferring development of core CMS functionality to a third-party product leaves more dev time for other things. Functionality which does not exist yet, might be implemented in an existing CMS. o Cons: Adapting the codebase might take some time. (It could probably be done step-by-step though. Refactoring the Blog and Daily sections would probably be very fast. Literature and Media sections would take some more analysis and backend development.)

3: Put more media collections on Itunes U. Make media collections easier to find on the site.
1: Enhance admin UI for the Mises Quiz
1: Better media streaming
1: MetaParserneeds to be refactored.
2: create mobile version of mises.org like m.mises.org
2: Setup automated backup for everything
3: move Mises.org to the cloud (In progress)

How to get Mises.org running locally:

For developers: how to get started with your own copy of Mises.org:

Install ASP.Net 4.0 and Sql Server Express
Checkout MisesWeb from https://code.mises.com:8443/svn/MisesWeb/trunk/MisesWeb (you can use guest/guest)
Restore http://mises.org/services/torrents/MisesClean.7z to a local DB and update the connection strings in web.config
Configure a website in IIS to run in Integrated Mode and ASP.Net 4.0. (I use localhost and alpha.mises.org)
In Visual Studio 2010, open project MisesWeb.sln
Build Solution.
Go to http://localhost. Success! Mises.org running on your pc!
Commit your changes and see them on Mises.org!