Business/Mission statement: "A website that connect business to online tools which enables transparency." slogan - "Only Do Good" tagline - "Fork You. Open your mind. Open your business." * Home Page - Newsfeed of business/customizable portal of components. - Uses cases for home page - End user - Finding information about businesses of interest - Learn about products (marketing) - Rate & Review products - Discuss company - Finding a business to fork from (Low priority) - Communication tool for business via existing communication tools - Make information public; allows for transparency - Improve public image - Attract potential employees - Create opportunities for forking - Fork people : Consulting positions - Transfer knowledge from company to company - Sell consulting services - Fork business: Startups (Low priority) - Turn internal work into a side business - Parent business has stake in startup - Fork product (Low priority) - Traditional open source - Open a new project to the world - Adopt an existing project as a maintainer - Just use forkbiz for promotion - Trusted open source - Open source but with the official backing of a business - Opposite of projects from some random guy in a random place - Tighter control on contributions - Safer for businesses to adopt - Addresses quality & security concerns - Coupled with support contracts or reliability guarantees - Adequate documentation - Joint projects (Low priority) - Potentially closed source between predefined group of organizations - Strategic interest to collaborate * Business Tool Integration (Order of priority, Lets NOT reinvent the wheel, if possible using APIs) Integrate with if possible - Marketing and communication - Facebook, Twitter (APIS's available) - HR/recruiting - linkedin.com, glassdoor.com (Custom API available, no public) Can't really integrate with, but can link off to - Website - Google Sites, Godaddy site builder, CMS? (No APIS) - Source Control - Git Hub (http://github.com/guides/the-github-api) - Open Source Project management - SourceForge (Link off to register project) - Hosting- Google App Engine (Not worried about yet) - E-Mail - Google Hosted E-Mail (http://www.google.com/a/) - Documentation management - Google Docs (http://code.google.com/apis/documents/overview.html) - Content Delivery - Amazon & Other CDNS (Not worried yet)