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Introduction

This forum topic summarizes the enhancements that will be done prior to the release of PRESTO V1. It also summarizes our post-V1 plans. The V1 enhancements will take about 3 to 5 months to do.

I am sending this info to you for the following reasons:

1. If the V1 list is missing any feature you feel I had committed to, please let me know.
2. Similarly, if you feel any features in the post-V1 list (or any others for that matter) are V1 requirements, please let me know.
3. Prior to V1 release, we will also cleanup various nits below the level of detail provided here. But if there are any nits that are particularly bothering you, please let me know.
4. I would be interested in any other feedback you might have regarding these plans.

V1 Plans

These changes will be implemented over 4 or 5 website updates in the approximate order in which they are listed:

1. Ability to create a new event by copying a PRESTO-provided sample event. Planned sample events are: Book Sale, Election Workers, Conference, Rotating Party, Art Show, and Performance Season.
2. Simplify Email Announcement's UI for scheduling per-day announcements (e.g. for signup reminders and thank-you notes).
3. Add an Admin-actions dropdown menu and a current-event dropdown menu to the header area of admin pages.
4. Provide a Help page for the Observer features at the top of self-signup home.
5. Make various improvements to judged contests.
6. Support global changes to signup schedules (e.g. apply change to an activity across multiple events).
7. Support structural changes to signup schedules (e.g. add a day in the middle of a schedule).
8. Enable hiding of empty days when using make-signup-schedule.
9. Make the make-form and make-report pages easier to learn and use.
10. Increase the length of Group Name (and any other fields you think are too short).
11. Provide a guided-tour slideshow.
12. Provide a creating-your-1st-event tutorial.

Post-V1 Plans

1. Complete the FAQ.
2. Provide an HTML wysiwyg editor for entering messages, activity descriptions, etc.
3. Enable a member of multiple groups to quickly switch between them.
4. Put dropdown menus into the Search form for identifying/searching on individual signup fields and individual group-specific registration fields.
5. Provide general purpose copy/paste feature -- for example, the ability to load a a create-activity form with the values from another activity.
6. Allow declaration of default field values: (1) what an empty field in a registration form should be set to, and (2) setting an empty signup field to the value of a field of the same name in the person's registration info.
7. Support getting a report's scope from a file and exporting a report to a file.
8. Provide a Calendar option for viewing the activities on a signup page. (This would be of use for long events with a small number of activities/day).
9. Provide event-wide send-regrets activity (so a person who tells you she can't make it gets neither followup please-signup announcements nor a thank-you note).
10. Add a which-signups dropdown menu to the current-signups table and the lookup-person page. For example, this menu would allow someone to display signups from past events.
11. Support a waiting list for signups (i.e. allow too many people to signup for an activity and when someone cancels to auto-complete the signup of the 1st excess person).
12. Provide additional tutorials.
13. Provide general-resource topics in the forum, related to volunteering and the like.