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

Thu Jul 14 19:45:23 UTC 2011

Yeah but make sure it is up to the minute in accuracy...  Another thing is
show the interest of the week...

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Jessy Kate Schingler
<jessy at jessykate.com>wrote:

> we shoud show a list of popular/recently added interests on the front
> page/landing page somewhere?
>
> @jessica yeah, there are some good lists of english stop words we can use
> to get rid of that kind of cruft :)
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> Jessy
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> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Alison Jean Cole <
> alisonjean.cole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> +1 for auto suggest, if it's feasible - not to narrow folks' interest but
>> to broaden the chances that they'll connect with others.
>>
>>
>> ALISON
>> p2pu.org/en/alison/
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>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Jessica Ledbetter <
>> jessica at jessicaledbetter.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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..
>>>>
>>>> ALISON
>>>> p2pu.org/en/alison/
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>>>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Jessy Kate Schingler <
>>>> jessy at jessykate.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Jessy
>>>>> --
>>>>> http://jessykate.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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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>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>>>> Wesley Pennock
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