Yes, what I would be looking at is a voluntary… don’t actually turn the program into a commercial plugin. It would be temporary and voluntary just to get the final steps done to benefit us all in the wordpress community.
There would just need to be a specific goal laid out and a time frame or money refunded sort of deal.
Good to hear someone has shown interest! There are some other good options out there but so far this is on top of the list as long as those main core features can get there.
For messaging, just use wordpress comments. It isn’t a big deal if they are a isolated to the assigned a task. Turn the task into a custom post type to utilize all core wordpress features.
Then add custom taxonomies to show it as completed or not with user permissions. Allow users from the front end to complete tasks. When a checkbox is selected it woudl change taxonomy type to “completed”. This would allow for literally an exact copy of Basecamp as a plugin for wordpress. There might be a commercial interest in selling the plugin to basecamp afterward with them creating an API to link to customers existing basecamp accounts, or to import existing basecamp records.
For each client, set them up as a custom user type. This allows them to log in with existing user control instead of a custom unique string. This way they can recover passwords, etc.
Not sure if I am oversimplifying this but I would think utilizing all of the core wordpress features would allow for a lot more control and customization.
Use jquery tabs, in the front end to display the tasks seperate from client info or main message board (single page using comments).
I am not strong enough with the quality coding and cross platform stablizing but I would image designing it using these core features would make this easier and more stable with all themes and avoid other plugin conflicts… not to mention, make it easier.
-Jamie
