Bibleicio.us plan - path to Beta

So I've got the alpha, the rough draft version, running over at http://bibleicio.us/bible

So what's next - try using it and try living it. I'm making a general announcement to my Church this week, and I've already spoken to our 20 Somethings group. I'm hopeful that a few of the small groups will take it and run with it, let their group reflections and discussions of the bible spill over into cyberspace.

This is test week for VLI so I won't have as much time to devote to this as I would like. I'm finishing up my required reading on Paul's letters so hopefully I can stop and add a few nuggets to the site while I'm at it. That's what I would reccomend you do to if you are interested, just try putting a few delicious bookmarks in here or there - try making a direct connection to a bible passage in the blogging you are already doing, and tag things you are already reading with specific bible chapters whether the author makes the connection or not.

After trying it out, if you have any thoughts on how things should be changed or improved post a comment on this blog here.

BTW the overall plan is something like this:

• Alpha Phase - Proof of Concept
• Get online Bible working.
• Search and pull in delicious tags for each book and chapter.
• Start tagging scriptures and get feedback from early users
  
• Beta Phase 1
• Recruit 1-3 additional developers - Javascript, php, AJAX, CSS, etc.
• Recruit 20-50 regular users/community members who are intentionally tagging links
• Focus on the Gospel of Mark, getting 4-10 links for each chapter.
• Start to establish community, determine additional features, work through conflict (in love) and develop a moderation system.
• Main Page - get rid of coming soon stuff.
• Page Layout and Design - CSS master, anyone, anyone, mueller?
• About/Help - describe intent, purpose, statement of faith, tagging guidelines,etc
• Recent Posts - right now hard to tell if anyone is using it, added to main page
• Word/Phrase seach of Bible
• Version 1 of Moderation system for links that appear on Bibleicio.us
• Bug fixes
  
• Beta Phase2
• Solidify site and community norms, add features to enhance community, Improve Bible section of website with better display and more translation options.
• Paragraphs and formatting of bible - OSIS support? (would give alternate versions as well)
• Alternate Translation - ESV API support
• Bibleicious tagging button that prompts and verifies book and chapter when posting to delicious.
• Filter by Tags - filter the links by the non scripture reference tags ie sermon, application, blog, etc for a particlar Chapter.
• Tag cloud on main page of non scripture reference tags included in bibleicious
• User home pages - link to blog list of post, personal info etc.
• List of Users - link to homepages, etc
• Technocrati style tags - add reference to bible passage and automatically get a link posted on bibleicious.
• Adjustments to Moderation system as needed
• Bug Fixes
  Biblicio.us 1.0 !

That's my brain dump. Let me know what I missed/other great ideas you might have.