Intelligent Design : conference

DC09 - DevCon Code, Slides, Videos

FTProductDev — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:50:00 GMT

We have wrangled all of the devs and gathered all of the content that you saw at the DC09 DevCon. Since we are community focused, we wanted you to have as much code and information that you'd need to get jump started for the RESTful API BETA so that you'll be able to discuss / communicate your ideas on consuming the REST API throughout the Social-Sphere. We've got much more to come with the upcoming launch of our developer community site and the general release of the REST API. Please take a moment to check out the goodies below - the whole dev team really "kicked out the ladder" so that we could give you real world, ministry focused code.

Application #1: F1Touch (Team Fire - iPhone) – 1st Party
Developers: Matt Vasquez, Chad Meyer
Description:
Our app is an iPhone application as a first party vendor open to all churches that opt in. Our application will provide the ability for church portal users to quickly look up congregants and contact them via phone or email as well as pull up Google maps to assist in directions to their house.

Content
Chad Meyer's blog post | Slide Deck | OAuth Lib

Application #2: Outreach (Team Air - Facebook) – 3rd Party
Developers: Ryan Champ, Jas Singh, Kelly Klein
Description:
Facebook is a social networking website with over 200 Million active users. How does the church engage, minister to, and help people through this social medium? Furthermore, is there a way to convert connections made in Facebook into potential church members?

We tackle the problem with a prototype of application that functions with the overarching concept of “Virtual Outreach over Virtual Church.” Not only do we aim to build an ecology of people helping each other, but by reaching out to people and helping them deal with issues that affect their lives, church ministers and lay leadership can build “social capital” and trust in the digital world. This, in turn, will make their invitations to check out the church family much more appealing. Prospects, thus invited via the Outreach app, will then be routed directly into the church’s Fellowship One database.

Content
Video | Slide deck | Code | OAuth Lib

Application #3: Listee (Team Earth – Expression Engine) – 2nd Party
Developers: Nathan Smith, Jingyi Wang
Description:
This module allows a web designer to easily include F1 data using the ExpressionEngine content management system. The benefit of this is that EE is a very popular CMS for high-end designers, because it's templating language is so intuitive.

Content
Video | Slide deck | Code | OAuth Lib

Application #4: IWANTTOSERVE.COM (Team Water - .NET MVC) – 3rd Party
Developers: Tim Hardy, Tudor Lupan
Description:
We’ve developed a “Needs board” application that allows church members (anyone with a WebLink login) to post needs and search needs to minister to each other. There is a tremendous need for a technical tool that can direct member’s willingness to serve to the valid needs of others. While several tools have attempted to provide this functionality, none have taken advantage of the tried-and-true community self-monitoring patterns established by services such as ebay. We’ve implemented a double opt-in system – the need submitter has to “Accept” a helper’s willingness to help, and the helper has to then “Commit”. Both the submitter and the committed helpers can then rate each other to curb service abuses once the need has been met or the due date expired. It completely leverages WebLink logins for authentication, and it contains a fully functional user profile editor

Content
Video | Slide deck | Code | OAuth Lib

Nick Floyd - Integration Architect

Hang with the Developers of Fellowship Technologies @ DC08

FTProductDev — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:32:00 GMT

The Development team here @ Fellowship Technologies wants to meet you @ Dynamic Church 08. We want get to know the men and women behind the screens. We've planned a few things so that we can connect with you and talk shop as well as get together for some fun time - why waste time sleeping.

Developers and non developers are welcome. Here's the schedule:

Thursday 15^th

200pm – Presentation(Rockhill) – Network Infrastructure (drez)

500pm – Presentation(Frisco 3) – Moving to REST (nfloyd)

- RESTing DEV

o Handout public keys and private secrets to all devs attending so that you can test drive the new API.

500pm – Presentation(Rockhill) – Leverage DataExchange(csimmons)

630-800pm - Group dinner – Dinner with dev - look for the tables marked "DEV" (probably in the back, away from the "normal" people)

900pm - Movie with Dev – just another opportunity to interact with other devs in an environment that we are comfortable where we don’t have to talk shop if we don’t want to.

Friday 16^th

1100am – Presentation(Rockhill) – Inside FT (drez)

1200-100pm – Birds of a feather lunch (We will be sitting @ the tables marked IT)

100pm – Presentation(Frisco 5) - Content Management (thardy)

230pm – Presentation(Rockhill) – Customizing Weblink(tcoulson)

730-930pm Concert

1000pm – Gaming with Dev – Go up against and talk trash to the Fellowship Technologies Devs in TF2. You don't want to miss this...

Saturday 17^th

1000-1200pm - Ask the experts (Frisco 5)

1. API 3 person panel discussion and questions with laptops open showing the code for the new RESTful API

2. Developers – Interact with the team responsible for building Fellowship One

Contact me with questions and let us know if we're going to see ya.

--Nick (nfloyd@fellowshiptech.com)

DC07 Eye opener

thardy — Wed, 23 May 2007 12:41:00 GMT

The conference was an eye-opening experience for me. I know that we're writing software that helps church staff get their jobs done more efficiently, which helps the church do what it was meant to do - minister to people. At least I thought I knew it. After this weekend, I realize I didn't really have a good grasp on the reality of it. The conference was a humbling experience, since it immersed me in the world of church administration and technology. Talking to so many people who use our software every day gave me a renewed sense of just how much everything we do here impacts church staff and the kingdom of God.

Now I really know what I thought I knew, and that makes me even more excited about the steps we're taking to make our software better than it's ever been.