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

Thu Jul 14 19:11:04 UTC 2011

Social glue: +1 That's one of the reasons. I'd love to find all the other
people interested in web stuff so I can follow on P2PU or add to G+ or
whatnots. :)

Jessy: Awesome. Let me know how it goes. I did notice quite a bit of wonk
and have some ideas (maybe a blacklist of terms like "of" "the") for some
folks' tags.

Wesley: Metric is a measurement really. So like how many people have a
certain tag could be a metric. It could then be expanded to show how many
people have that tag and visited the site within the last week. We can use
them to help us improve and see how we're doing as a system.

We could do a 'related' table but think that that'd be way down the line if
we did go that route. For example, "javascript" "php" "mysql" tags are all
"web" but only "javascript" and "php" might be "programming."

I've noticed quite a few folks put "programming" and that influenced me
putting programming so I'm thinking of an auto-suggest which might help.

I get excited about things that help with finding stuff and linking us
together so pardon if my emails on tagging get too long :)

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Alison Jean Cole <alisonjean.cole at gmail.com
> wrote:

> In the fairy tale future, hopefully tags will serve as the social glue -
> they will give users the ability to suggest courses, find collaborators,
> invite guest experts, make friends, etc..
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> ALISON
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> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Jessy Kate Schingler <jessy at jessykate.com
> > wrote:
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>> when i do the next round of work on the metrics script, maybe i could have
>> it scrape that field and do an auto-count of terms used.
>>
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>> Jessy
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>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Wesley Pennock <
>> wesleymarkpennock at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>>
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>>> 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
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>>>> 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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>>>>> Sincerely,
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