[Peers] user interface satisfaction

[jim]

   seems to me a fair amount of my frustration would be 
reduced by some kind of OH users' shared text area (e.g. 
wiwi or forum or...). 

   imagine that any user who's "registered" with OH can 
access a feature that allows up to 4096 (or so) characters 
of input text and has a few fields for meta data: 
* user's name (with link to other user stats) 
* subject field (a la email subject, system allows 
continuation based on the subject field, a la newsnet 
topics) 
* tag box, a combo box that combines a pull-down list of 
tags with a text-entry box with tab completion. 
   users can access the contents by searching by tags 
(the same combo box as for data entry) as well as by 
input-user's stats (or a subset that can be presented 
in another combo box that has "tags" such as user name, 
tags for each interest, tags for locale...), and the 
subject field (probably up/down ASCII sort order). 


start-examples 
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username: jim 
jim's user stats: none (jim didn't want to add any at time of entry) 
subject: i wanna fun python project 
tags: python mentor "san francisco" volunteer 
text: yada yada and furthermore yada. 

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username: jim 
jim's user stats: "san francisco" "system administration" linux 
subject: anybody know of a system admin job in or around SF? 
tags: BASH "san francisco" employment "open source" 
text: i'm really broke and need money so bad i'll work hard 
AND kiss ass. 

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username: jim 
jim's user stats: "san francisco" parrot python documentation 
subject: i wanna fun python project 
tags: python mentor "san francisco" volunteer 
text: maybe parrot would be interesting. anybody know about 
the parrot project? 

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end-examples 

   tags strike me as useful; OH users can create them, system 
can scrape them from text entries and other OH data,... tags 
are single words or quoted strings within some low number of 
chars, e.g. 64), combo box concatenates tags as user enters 
them, system searches tag boxes as OR (users can force AND 
searches).... 




On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 18:41 -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> On Thu, 13 May 2010, jim wrote:
> 
> >   i'm not happy. i want to connect with a project,
> > but i give up shortly after playing with the OH site.
> > all i can offer right now is feelings, but they may
> > be helpful.
> >
> >   i wanna find something fun. i have no idea which
> > projects might be fun (what's fun? people involved
> > are happy and playful). i can't figure that out by
> > reading the scant text available (a project name by
> > itself is pretty much no clue; i don't recognize
> > most of the project names).
> >   i wanna find something that's local to me so i
> > can hang out physically with other people. it'd be
> > nice to have regional info along with People involved,
> > Link, Status, Importance.... i know many projects
> > involve people all over the world, but most projects
> > have mentors in only a few places--it's the mentors'
> > locale that's important.
> >   i wanna filter out stuff i don't care about and/or
> > filter in stuff i care about. e.g. no solaris, no
> > desktop gui, any django, any embedded systems, any
> > modules (device drivers), any parrot. i haven't
> > discovered any filtering that suits my wishes (it
> > might be there, of course).
> >   if OH hasn't got info on stuff i wanna get into
> > (e.g. django, parrot, seems OH doesn't have much
> > about those projects), i'd like a convenient button or
> > some such to let me investigate (so why don't i just
> > access the django or parrot web site? because i'm
> > amazingly lazy; i don't want to have to navigate through
> > their web sites and hope i find a path to contribution
> > and--very important to me--a path to mentoring; my
> > mindset is OH-like, i wanna feel like OH is with me in
> > my wanderings, i wanna hook up to something good and
> > fun and..., so i'd like some kind of OH portal features
> > that do some of the navigation for me and maybe scrapes
> > useful info from my digging attempts).
> 
> Interesting. Jim, as always, your feedback has been great.
> 
> Right now, it's not clear on the site if you're "Mentor" for "Python", is 
> that the skill or the project? And we don't really say what to do with 
> people who want to offer themselves as mentors in a project.
> 
> We can work on that. Bug filed: https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue81
> 
> As for localness... well, the map is painfully slow, so that's useless. I 
> guess we'd like help making it less slow. Or we'll get to it, "soon."
> 
> Filtering out projects is interesting; we didn't really think about an 
> interface for *removing* projects from the browse interface. But we could 
> actually add that. https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue82
> 
> As for what's fun... yeah, that's tough. But it's not impossible. We could 
> actually let people vote on projects in free-software-land to see if 
> they're actually friendly.
> 
> Sorting volunteer opportunities by "Local"ness... now that would be 
> awesome. https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue83
> 
> I don't understand when you say, "i'd like a convenient button or some 
> such to let me investigate".
> 
> Those are my thoughts! What are yours now? (-:
> 
> -- Asheesh.
>