stack

A web application for stacking people for intervining in a conversation.

Helpful tool for facilitators and participants of meetings with a lot of people or on-site and remote participants.

See Taking Stack (Meeting Facilitation Technique) for more information about the technique.

Deployed version: stack.wmflabs.org

Run

• npm install
• Development: npm start, open http://localhost:3000
• Production:
  1. Compile everything npm run build
  2. PORT=80 node index.js
  3. Deployables are {index.js}, {server/}, and {build/}

Requirements

• npm version 5+
• node.js version 6+

TODO

• Server
  • [x] Migrate server to express
  • [x] Clean up server code
• Client
  • [x] Add buildtool for better client side asset management
  • [x] Refactor frontend using es6 and modules
• Improvements
  • [x] Use SSE or websockets or long polling for communication
  • [ ] Change participant to set name when joining before they can add themselves
  • [ ] Checkbox for I'm a facilitator that enables being able to pop people from the stack (disabled by default)
  • [ ] Being able to manage the stack (remove participants on the middle, etc)
  • [x] Disallow contiguous participants in stack
  • [x] Improve styles