[p2pu-dev] Should we be recommending Profile tags as the main way to suggest course ideas?

[Wesley Pennock]

Agreed maybe make similar tag connections? Not entirely sure how that would
work but I have high hopes it can be done. Jessica what is a metric by the
way?

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Jessica Ledbetter <
jessica at jessicaledbetter.com> wrote:

> User tags aren't perfect and I'm hoping to tweak it a little. I have a long
> list in my head and some on the commit note too.
>
> Yes, we're hoping that we can easily see who all wants X as a topic. It's
> not perfect though and I'm thinking of ways to make it better. For example,
> if one person puts "Javascript" but I want to see everyone wanting to learn
> "jQuery" maybe those Javascript people would be interested in it. Could just
> be as simple as "Find all people tagged with these terms: javascript jquery
> prototype node." Also, typos count so those looking for "Javscript" won't
> find "Javascript." I could do a "like" for suggestions and something like
> "did you mean?"
>
> Yes, I'm also hoping for metrics. I love metrics and will help how I can.
>
> Yes, I want to be able to subscribe to a tag and get notified when a course
> [1] is created with such.
>
> Courses will have organizer supplied tags in the next release and some of
> that code is already committed (though not in production).
>
> Some of this code is me scratching my own itch but that's one of the
> awesome things about open source ;) Patches/pull requests welcome!
>
> [1] Course, study group, workshop, etc. :)
>
> ~Jessica
> Volunteer Developer
> Lernanta/P2PU
>
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Wesley Pennock <
> wesleymarkpennock at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes Pippa we should. We could have school organizers look through all the
>> users "want to learn more section" and using that decide what should taught
>> next. And maybe create a graph of some sort out of this data. These are just
>> some preliminary thoughts though. Also about the user notification of
>> courses that match their tag, this is a brilliant idea and should be
>> implemented immediately.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Pippa Buchanan <Pippa.Buchanan at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I'm reviewing the SoW FAQ information.
>>>
>>> One section I'd like to make sure we get right is "*I'd like to suggest
>>> a course idea, but not necessarily organise it myself. Can I do that?"*
>>>
>>> We're currently recommending Uservoice as the way to suggest a course
>>> idea. The problem is that potential P2PU users end up creating a Uservoice
>>> account instead of a P2PU account.
>>>
>>> As we've now started to use tags, should I start recommending to users
>>> that they create a profile and add relevant tags to the "Want to learn more
>>> about" section?
>>>
>>> How do we imagine that this  will end up being used? Will users with tags
>>> get notified when courses with matching tags are created?
>>>
>>> P*
>>>
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>>
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