$10 for Dean - Implementation
Giving User Interface (GUI)
- Entry
screen , "Why $10" with links to the rest of the screens
- User acknowledges
intent to contribute $10, enter Referrer # if necessary, FEC statement.
- Enter payment
and personal info:
- Initial thank
you screen
- Howard Dean
thank you email
- Depiction of referrer
tree
Feeds from front end
- Feed credit card info (Convio)
- Feed campaign database (via Convio)
- fname, lname, email, referrerID
- Feed tree generation/referral database (Zack Rosen, Ken Herman)
Tree generation database
(allows each person see who has credited them with inspiring them)
- Linked to their personal identifier
- Has own identifier that can be used by end users as “referrer 1035” to
credit referrals
- Link provided in viral emails that referrers can
send to next "referrees".
- Can be queried to generate referal trees ("hash tables"?)
- Issue: when and how
are the hash tables updated?
Candle DB Subset
(enable real-time checking by individuals of
their growing trees)
- Each person’s identifier packet, with a list of similar
packets’ of
those who this person referred, and the next generation, and so on.
- Identifier
packet consists of the “handle” paired with the unique “salesman
1034” idenfitier, and perhaps whether the person is in deanlink, and
a pointer to the deanlink file.
- Zip-code or other geographic or electoral
id????
Output derived from hash table
- Priority
- Tree of dots
- A row of bullet symbols at each level
- Each bullet displays ID/name on mouseover
- Each bullet linked to a referrer DeanLink profile, if present
- Tree of names?
- Next rev
- Geographic display
- Open interface: encourage
more complex network presentations of this data
- Valdis Krebs
- Flash dynamic data