Gsoc Draft Proposal for "Add social media integration to musicbrainz"

Title: Draft Proposal for "Add social media integration"


Abstract
Recently a new feature (Concerts) in event have been introduced in MB.
Using FB and twitter like social media sites to promote events and to
increase the use of MB among users.
ContentPersonal DetailsName: Anjali UjjainiaEmail: [email protected]
Nick: anjaliujjainiaGithub: http://github.com/Anjali2906MusicBrainz
Profile: https://musicbrainz.org/user/anjaliLocation (City, Country, Time
Zone): Delhi, India (UTC/GMT +5:30 hours)
IntroductionI propose to complete the integration of social media into MB
so that users can successfully share the events they're gonna visit or have
visited by sharing on fb/twitter.
Project Goals[1] Modifying the UI to create a subsection for the sharing
button

Creating a subsection in the overview page after editing a entry for
concert, having inks to further share the concerts you’re sharing on
your/friend’s wall via musicbrainz, which the friends can RSVP if they are
attending the concert.

[2] Social Features and their implementation

   -

   At the time of creating a event, we can either ask for a link of the
   official sites of the concerts on facebook and twitter.
   -

   When sharing if the links provided at the time of creating the event
   will work as a #tag for the page which can be extracted from the respective
   API’s of both fb and twitter.
   -

   A login via fb and twitter can also be implemented rather than a normal
   MB login, which helps in several ways:
   -

      Creates a more validated authentication for the users for their
      existence.
      -

      Login via any social media sites provides connecting to other sites
      using these id’s as well.
      -

   People who wants to RSVP will be redirected to MB page of the event
   created and can login via fb/twitter or can form mb user id to rsvp which
   will increase the counter of attendance system which has already been tried
   to implement but not started.
   -

   For twitter:
   -

      Since most of the profiles are public there is no hard need to login
      to twitter for the data too.
      -

      able to gather activity info from social networks and feed it to
      mb(eg. save #relevant tweets in mb-event)



   -

   For facebook:
   -

      We definitely need to login to a fb account to access any of the data.
      -

      Either no login via fb and just share button of fb can be implemented
      which then asks to post on the users wall on behalf of mb
      -

      Also, with invite plugin in facebook we can allow users to invite
      friends to checkout the event (when user provides with the link of event
      while creating the edit) and in this way friends with the users gets to
      know about the upcoming events.

Implementation# Facebook implementation:

Perl API which can be used for the purpose can be: h
ttp://search.cpan.org/~unobe/WWW-Facebook-API-0.4.18/lib/WWW/Facebook/API.pm
<http://search.cpan.org/~unobe/WWW-Facebook-API-0.4.18/lib/WWW/Facebook/API.pm>

which can be used with the moose to integrate and further used for the
purpose of sharing via fb or in any other way feels appropriate.

Plugins such as https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/share-button
can also be used, if not planning to go with login via fb.

# Twitter Implementation:

Perl API can be used to collect the information with a #tag related to the
event or the mb site to check how many people are talking about the concert
or the mb and fetch tweets to check the publicity.

https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/twitter-libraries
About me:

I am Anjali Ujjainia pursuing B.tech, 3rd semster from Indraprastha
Institute of Information Technology. I love web developments. I have one
year experience of python and a basic knowledge of perl, but a motivation
to learn it.

Idea of adding a social media features to sites to get better feedbacks and
promotion attracted my attention. I have not done this feature before and
therefore is willing to learn alot and come up with a good end product. I
am solving issues, reporting bugs and editing database, so that the
database contains for useful information for people.


*Contributions:*

[1] https://github.com/musicbrainz/picard-website/pull/24

Currently working on

http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-6438



I would like to receive possible changes from the developers.

Thanks

Anjali Ujjainia

_______________________________________________
MusicBrainz-devel mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-devel