Talk:Participate Live Feedback - Upgrade Meet Functionality
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Can we keep the Buglist up to date here? It is necessary? midschCS 10:16, 8 December 2006 (EST)
Yes and NO :-)
We should only list a bug(mantis entry) / group post IF we actually refer to it. That's the reason we list it in the "References" section. Also, there is NO need to keep the content up to date, as we a) just can't and b) there is a link, so everybody interested can check it out. Sirius 20:44, 8 December 2006 (EST)
"Objective: when a user uses the site, he always sees times and dates corrected to his local time " If I am in Longon (GMT) and there is a meeting begining at 12:00 noon New York time (GMT-5), then surely I DO NOT want the time to be adjusted? I want to see that the meeting starts at noon New York time, not 15:00 London time. If I was going to this meeting then I wouldn't care what time it was in London. Perhaps I am just misunderstanding this, but this is how I interpreted what is suggested. A webchat, say should start at "15:00 your time (12:00 GTM-5)", but anything refering to physical meetups should surely just use "local" (New York) time? FritterPete 04:25, 28 January 2007 (EST)
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Just some personal thoughts, notes and suggestions about some of the points raised
by Steff
Improving existing Features
Dates + Times
I am not sure that I understand the point in correcting the time to local time. What is the purpose behind? It seems to me that the information you need is the date indeed, then the actual local time when the meeting will be held so you know it when you make it there. Or maybe both should be displayed i.e. local time from the place where the meeting takes place plus the user’s local time so as to avoid any confusion at all?
Date display + selection
About the calendar widget.
If it is to be used for people to look for meetings according to a date, I think it would be nice that it allows to look not only for a single date but within a time frame of let’s say 1 or 2 days before and after the date either (this could be optional).
Adding new Features
General Meeting Page
Order of meetings
- Would it be possible too to add a function that orders meetings by distance not only from own login or home but from a location one could set manually? That way the user can enter a chosen given location/region of the globe where e.g. he/she will travel in the near future so one can check if/what things will be going on there and eventually set or modify their travel plans accordingly.
- To enable such a search, it would be nice if when one sets up a new meeting page, it is asked to fill the same kind of information as on the ‘Couchsearch’ page i.e.the meetings region/country/city, etc. Then developers can hopefully set a ‘filter’ that allows to simply see meetings in one region/a given country, etc.
- So that they are better sorted, different types of meetings could eventually be defined and set? E.g. travel/outdoors meet ups (biking trips, picnics) vs. indoors, urban ones. OR work meetings, Play meetings, media coverage, etc. Or another option could be to associate a range of predefined ‘tags’ to meetings since some can fill more than one of those ‘categories’ at a time.
More buttons
I’d definitely go for the extra page for past meetings! Plus it would be cool that there are tools either to classify/filter those like for upcoming meetings since lists are gonna get pretty long and messy quickly enough as years go by.
General Management / Organizers Privileges
Adding an existing meeting as a sub-meeting of another : OK but I think it requires mutual agreement of the 2 organizers concerned. Maybe through emails including a link to approve of it?
Member Management
Ability for organizer to add/remove meeting members
I wouldn’t let the user be added directly by the organizer but would rather like that he/she receives an email offering him to join and including a link to click so as to validate their participation.
Ability to invite members to the meeting
Alright but I am afraid that one can get spammed this way. To limit such a risk I suggest that if the organizer sends more than a given number of ‘invites’ (number TBD) then the messages get sent to the local Ambassador in charge so he can check the content of those and give approval before they get sent.
Calendar
I would like that it is enabled that you see on your friends’ profiles which upcoming meetings they consider attending to so you can plan to come over and meet up there or travel together, etc. – with people consent e.g. they set the option in their preferences and this should probably only apply above a certain level of friendship – I’d go for it as far as my Good and Close Friends are concerned.
Showing it on the calendar sounds nice… though I wouldn’t go for that! Calendars will become overloaded with tons of different information and one does not necessarily wish nor have the time to browse through their friends’s calendars and hosts/guests plans, etc. so as to find this information.
Reoccurring Meetings
Can we make it that ANY person subscribed to the main meeting can organize a sub-meeting? Eventually this would require that a message is sent to the organizer of the main meeting including a link through which he/she can approve of the sub-meeting and sort of ‘delegate’ organizers tasks and tools to the sub-meeting organizer.
I’m unsure whether this is clear… as an example I have in mind the way it works in Paris. We could and would definitely like to have a main meeting page that would gather all Parisian major monthly meet ups. The latter would probably have Dreferic as an organizer since he’s the main Amb there and manages the 2 most active Parisian groups… then what we’ve tried to grow from Fall 05 is that every one person after the other has to organise a monthly meeting so this spread the work between us all and we get to discover new places, get new ideas (Maria and I started the picnic gatherings!) etc.
Having everyone to be organizers on the main meeting page would be messy and confusing and makes no sense but actually to be a sub-meeting organizer you have to be an organizer on the main meeting page, am I right?
About restricting submeetings in duration accordingly to the main meeting time frame: am in favour of this as long as the main meeting actually has a time frame. Otherwise we should make sure there is no restriction put on the submeetings. Main meetings are not necessarily meant to have a time frame, do they? E.g. with Paris again… the main meeting would be sth like ‘Paris monthly larger CS meet ups’ and should not include any time frame since those events are meant to keep occurring again and again.
PROPOSAL: Setting a HOW-TO page (on the wiki?) for meetings
I feel there is a need that someone writes guidelines on how to use the meeting pages aimed at both meetings organisers and participants.
There should be a ‘Meeting pages for dummies’ section linked from the TOP of the main meeting page, explaining the basic stuff e.g.
1/ how to register for a meeting (like remembering people have to be and stayed logged in to be offered the option to register, etc.), what meetings are about
2/ tips on how the meeting section works, how to look for some meetings to attend to, how to ‘filter’ the info, etc.
3/ another page explaining the later phase, i.e. that you can come back to the page AFTER the meeting and add links to photos of the event you’ve uploaded, indicate whether you attended, leave comments, etc.
4/ include a link to the wiki page on how to organize one’s own, etc. plus give any explanations on what the roles and tools of meetings organizers are, etc.
Plus those informations should be linked to the relevant places within the various meetings pages too.
