marksie1988 + 18 Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Hi Guys, Im a PHP Programmer and am currently looking for a new project that i could start to do. Only issue is im out of ideas so I thought I would ask you. If there were one thing that you could do on-line but cant currently do what would it be? I would prefer ideas to do with policing that aren't currently been done or that are being done but badly so that i can improve on it! Any project ideas would be great though once i have completed the project i would post here to let you guys see it (maybe a while though) Cheers Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petrena 0 Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 (edited) Hi there, One of the things I would love to do if given a chance to do it, would be a community care interactive forum for the UK. The forum would be very user friendly, interesting and informative at the same time. It would bring all the professionals, local authorities, voluntary organisations together as well as genuine local businesses to help the UK local communities grow. Lets face it, if you look up any council's website, or government sites, they are boring and bland, and people won't want to go and visit them, so the best way is to bring like a little entertainment section to it to get people's interest. It shouldn't be at all stuffy, just a real chillout forum and site. There could also be a series of chatrooms that can be monitored, but they would give lonely people a chance to communicate with one another. It would help everyone, by having sections for different types of problems, whether it would be health, local issues, education issues, money issues housing, security issues for elderly, disabilty. There could be a section for giving information about drink, drugs and sex education. There is alot of this information on line, but there is no real portal or focal point. For example: Someone maybe worried over an issue that could be solved online with good advice from a professional, however it could also be a focal point, so that should there be a pattern to a problem, then you would have an early warning system in place. Another example: Someone may have money worries and they don't know where to turn to locally for help: surely it is better to try to help them before they think of the 'loan shark' and they end up in a very bad way, having to commit crime in order to pay the 'loan shark'. This site could help by indentifying honest business men and it would show people how to indentify the con men tricks and how to avoid them. There could be like a little barter system of trades where we could help each other, for example someone is good at decorating, yet their computer is on the blink and they can't fix it. We have got to try and put some trust back in the community and maybe look towards lobbying the local councils to get some proper community centres built that can help the massive estates both private and council to bring people together once again. If people cannot attend meetings, there needs to be an information online about the meetings, so that housebound people's views can be heard too. That way you get a good picture of what would have an a positive impact on that estate. The community centres could help both the old and young together or bring them together. There could a base to help the local meals on wheels, or a Day Centre and there could be a Youth Centre where there could be activities organised for the young people on the estates, so that no one is left out. People find time to help others in other countries, but we all seem to just ignore the vunerable within our local communities. If we can get all different sectors of our society talking some sense to help people instead of people just listening to idiots who will distroy their lives. I know how the forum could be laid out as I have worked on forum's before but I'm no good at coding or graphics. The site needs to be cool and informative at the same time, without it looking like big brother looking down on folk. I know in my heart that it could work with a bit of vision from everyone. However, people do have to have the will for it to succeed as we as a country have got to start looking after our own people and valuing everyone. When you think about it, it is better to prevent the crime than to mop it up afterwards, so bringing communities together could be a way of bringing a positive image for the police and while you are doing this, you will get more information coming through about the idiots who are out to distroy communities by their criminal activities. The start of the community starts with the people you can reach and then spread you web outward. The best place for this is online, and there is alot of information online already, it just needs for it to have a focal point. I would love to help, if you would allow me to, however I understand if this is too much. Thank you for listening. Edited March 15, 2011 by Petrena Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milkandcookies + 15 Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 So a forum basically Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoneForgotten 2,494 Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Hi Guys, Im a PHP Programmer and am currently looking for a new project that i could start to do. Only issue is im out of ideas so I thought I would ask you. If there were one thing that you could do on-line but cant currently do what would it be? I would prefer ideas to do with policing that aren't currently been done or that are being done but badly so that i can improve on it! Any project ideas would be great though once i have completed the project i would post here to let you guys see it (maybe a while though) Cheers Steve How about cryptographic library to process and manage PKI in a simple and easy way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatarg 20 Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 I wrote an entire BBS with all the (usual) trimmings when I was learning PHP to begin with. Was quite happy with it in the end. Didn't look as nice as this one for example as my art skills are pretty much non-existent Took me about 4 months though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmdkeen 0 Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 How about cryptographic library to process and manage PKI in a simple and easy way? Please no. Those who thing cryptography is a simple thing to implement have misunderstood the problem. Of all the projects to never undertake to improve your skills security is right there are the top. In all honesty I'd say pick something small to work on. That way you can actually complete something, which brings a decent motivational boost, and that you can point to as your own. Make something other people will use, and make it open source. That way you get feedback on your code, for no-one not even the best programmer in the world writes perfect code, we all need peer review. If you have an interest in forums for instance perhaps write a plugin or extension for a popular forum system. It will get you digging through the APIs for a decent system (as decent as a PHP system can be* :D) and perhaps the main code, which will help you learn about how to design such things, which is very much a skill in itself. Just as an idea, and very much off the top of my head - so it may exist, would be an extension for the reputation system PS.com uses. I'd love to be able to see where my reputation points come from - which of my posts have accrued the highest and lowest score. To be able to see on my recent posts history what the reputation votes are. Etc etc. * Speaking as an ex-PHP user (almost wrote PCP there ) who has discovered Django and is falling in love with web programming again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llama 30 Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Hi Guys, Im a PHP Programmer and am currently looking for a new project that i could start to do. Only issue is im out of ideas so I thought I would ask you. If there were one thing that you could do on-line but cant currently do what would it be? I would prefer ideas to do with policing that aren't currently been done or that are being done but badly so that i can improve on it! Any project ideas would be great though once i have completed the project i would post here to let you guys see it (maybe a while though) Cheers Steve Why not look into developing a modular system? Start by building your SQL tables and constructing the PHP frontend and backend for a membership database From there branch out to developing till facilities and reports Then you could even look into developing a loaning system like a library. That was my first major PHP project and it was a real learning curve! Nowadays I'm a full time VB/VC & ASP programmer - now that really is fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksie1988 + 18 Posted April 10, 2011 Author Share Posted April 10, 2011 Well I have had an idea for a community project which if it takes off could help with community tensions and help bring communities. Although I think it will take hunderds of years to make all races and communities to get along this will hopefully help with that. I like the idea of makin it modular. I could even look into creating an API that can be used with the site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PandaRenegade 2 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Well I have had an idea for a community project which if it takes off could help with community tensions and help bring communities. Although I think it will take hunderds of years to make all races and communities to get along this will hopefully help with that. I like the idea of makin it modular. I could even look into creating an API that can be used with the site Marksie, I've sent you a PM re this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanF109 35 Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Open Source is the way forward! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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