Roadmap to the Gateway

0.1 - Basic functionality - Completed 3/16/24

User login, registration, and permissions.
Basic style of the site

0.2 - Anthology Projects - Completed 4/26/24

Users can create their anthology projects
Anthology and Publisher pages show all of the information in a nicer manner
New public browse page shows all anthologies that have a "launch" status

0.3 - Author Profile

Allow authors to complete a full profile for themselves. Create an author profile page that is public so anyone can view the author's information. This information is needed to be able to submit a story to an anthology project.

0.4 - Submissions

Authors can submit a story to an anthology
Receive an email when a project you favorite goes open for submissions
Team members can view submitted stories and download the original file for review

0.5 - Teams

Users can Favorite projects and quickly find them in the future
Project managers can add additional users to the project
Announce upcoming Calls for Submissions

0.6 - Submission Votes

Team members can vote on the submissions to indicate if they enjoyed it or not
The stories with the best votes are brought to the top of the list
Team members can officially accept or decline stories for their project
Accepting or declining a story will email the author

0.7 - Drafts

The author and team members can both upload new draft copies of their submission (with edits)
Each draft will have a comment section to pass information along that is outside of the document
The submission can be set to the state of "Finalized" which will lock it out from any further changes when both parties agree.

0.8 - Contracts

Admins can upload sample contracts that team members can choose to use as boiler plate
Team members can create contract templates for their project, changing the content and adding input fields
Team members can issue a contract to an author
Authors can review a contract, fill in the details, and then sign it
Team members can counter-sign the contract

0.9 - Upgraded Projects

Projects will fall into either a free or paid tier. The payment will be once per project and will be reasonably priced.
Users can search for projects

0.10 - Internal Communications

A forum-like communication area will be included for each project
Any user can post to the forum to ask questions and allow team members to respond
Each project will also have a Team-Only forum section, for internal team communications
Each project will have a Private forum where all of the authors that have been accepted and the team can talk

More awesome features planned.....