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sasfbd website considerations
last modified September 19, 2011 by pierre
DhakaSASF event/activity distance encounter SASF event/activty local SASF event/activity indiv/ organisations
see website home page
some suggestion for updates of forms and interactivy around form display lists |
here some general questions /suggestions directed to Polash, about the registration system - these questions are inspired by the set of considerations http://openfsm.net/projects/sfexintercom/on-objectives-of-registration-system
1- When I register as participant /organization , will I be given by return (manually or automatically an access to editing some lmited part of the website ?
2- When i register an activity/event, the form includes registering organization data - will I be given by return (manually or automatically an access to editing some part of the website ? also there is no relation between activity form and participant /organization form -
3- I understand the activity forms are “send and forget”, i-e if I do not fill a field which is not compulsory (e-g the exact day and date of a distance encounter ) , the form is emitted towards the website - Now how can I come back later when I know more, and edit the missing field ?
4- will the sent forms be instantaneously visible in some “ browse current list of announced activity” menu ? that would be great …. – of course program group could filter some annoucment that would be incompatible with WSF charter It need to have internally a “ hide activity xx” admin command -this "instant bottom up program menu" could allow to access some various views
- -"dhaka local b/up program" ( activities that are not enlarged, nor distance encounters) -that is probably not so interesting
- a-"dhaka enlarged b/up program" ( all activitites that announce they will or may be enlarged ) this will be useful for remote participants, adn to extension /program working group to assess the need /capacity for internet equipped room in the dhaka venue
- b-"dhaka global b/up program"
- ( all dhaka activities and distance encounter activities ) this wil be useful for dhaka participants - it will be the reference paper program circulted in dhaka ( with a summarized presentation of sasf local program for political communication
- c-"sasf distance encounter b/up program" ( all distance encounter activities ) ( with some of them enlarged) this will be useful for dhaka participant ( specific part of the dhaka global paper program ) that want to experiene videoconferencing with other parts of the world, and for the extension team that will have to organize the detailed schedule of the distance encounter rooms need/ capacity mixing with the enlarged need.capacity but with the extra requirement of having videoprojector and loudspeaker in the room , and accomodating precisely hours taking into account time differences and local constraints of distance encounter counterparts (who will privilege evenings and week end days)
- d-"sasf local b/up program" ( all local activities + distance encounter activiites ) (with some of them enlarged) this allow to see the sasf dynamics in all sa region it is politically meaningful about which organizations are both participating in dhaka and outside dhaka , about
- e-"sasf enlarged b/up program" ( all enlarged activities whether dhaka - local -distance encounter) this will be useful for remote participants
- -sasf global b/up program ( all activities registered in the site )
- list of dhaka participants ,
- list of dhaka participating organizations -
- list of extended participants not coming to dhaka
- list of extended participating organizations (an organisation can be both in dhaka and in extended activities - see the questions here
- ( need a review between the participant case and the organisaiton case since the same form is used for both )
5- If 4 is yes , the one possibility for 3 is to have in the form an item saying this form yyy is a next update of activity xxxx ( xxx and yyy being the automatic number visible in the display list ) - this way people indicate what is the earlier form that they are updating - and the automatic list of 4 may override the earlier version - in order to avoir mistakes there could be some automatic check that form A will override form B only if the emitter private non displayed mail address is the same ..
6- During the meeting polash said that the wish to have “tables” created with the incoming form field data could be met , so comes a following questions can these activities table by displayed , sorted on some colums , searched by field etc….. I remember that the Mumbai social forum 2004 had a very simple and effective search module allowing to combine three selectable columns of the table wth selectable criteria ( contains the string xxx ) which allowed precision search among the 1200 activities there
7- For the sake of good divers communication before the event and after it I suggest to add in all form and email 2 and email 3 fields and this not have only email 1 , this would allow to have systematically several people notified of any message sent to their organization, or activity organizers group
8- If there is no identifiation log in the site , it would be anyway tremendously useful for the inter comunicaton betwenn participants , to have a simple “ site messaging system” - whereby people could say in a specific website form called ("send a message to others") am among the holder of one of the 3 contact emails of org/activity ( select) number (234 ) - here is my email (box) and I want to write this message (textbox with capacity to edit links to url adresses) to activity/org (select) number (45) and to activy/org(select) number 453 –send - ( it is important to be able to direct oneself at least to two entities simultaneously )
When receiving this form the website system would check if the email is in the list of emails of org234 and then send the meesage, the sender to check it is really him/her sending the message,asking him her to click on a validation link contained in it , and on reception of this validation the system would be sending to the target emails a45 and 453 the message associated with a contextualizing header ( "this message come from activity/org 234, whose title is ( ) and is directed to activty org, whose title is ( ) and to activty org whose title is ( )
9- According to the type of form filled 1 participant in Dhaka 2 participant out of dhaka - 3 organization in Dhaka 4 organisations in Dhaka and out of Dhaka 5 orgnisaiton out of Dhaka - 6 Dhaka activity not enlarged -7 Dhaka activity with enlargement - 8 Local - 9 local enlarged - 10 distance encounter –11 distance encounter enlarged , it would be good to feed automatically those 11 mailing list with the email associated to the recently registerered forms this would create constantly updated 11 “ participant group” list with each their common characteristics regarding extension, adn would allow to send them specific communication
10 - it would be good to add in the description box of the form capacity to activate links , ie- if y type the adress of a url page this is recognized and the link is active when the ativity form is displayed, if this is not possible then at least add below each large text box a link fied " put here a link to documetns that are related to your activity " - this will turn the dislay of forms into a hub of links towards very focused pages anywhere in the web towanrds documents or on line spaces ( as openfsm.net) where people broswsing the "instant bottom up program of announced activities for sasf " will find very delelopped informatioj or a collaboartive space where they can interact with the activity organizers