[p2pu-dev] Should we be recommending Profile tags as the main way to suggest course ideas?
Zuzel VP
zuzel at p2pu.org
Wed Jul 20 18:17:37 UTC 2011
Recommendations on the user dashboard are a nice future development
for the applications of tags.
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.
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> 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:
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>> 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:
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>>> 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
>>> 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:
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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?
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Jessica Ledbetter
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>>>>> Wesley Pennock
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