We’re still working on the ins and outs of this forum, finding, tweaking etc. This post is partially a test post to see if people get it in their e-mails, and partially a method for starting discussion here.
what’s missing? what do you want to see? what’s broken?
Pipeline to fix: (Updated 03/10/20)
SSO from Membershipworks, not from wordpress (will fix everyone’s names being numbers, among other things
Currently not working well. We’ll need a script, or for people to just change their username when they arrive.
Figuring out groups
Member rep group added
Editor group for people who want to actively document
Any others?
Badges / badge system
too many badges for random things- adds clutter and noise.
I’m on. Thank you for setting this up and very much looking forward to using this and the wiki a little bit more. You’re awesome! Also my user name did show up as a number and I had to change it
hmm so maybe we need to make digest settings more apparent? i haven’t got them to “work” like google groups yet, so that and the wiki are my two next priorities. i think we need to examine how the forum and a wiki will tie in together.
I am on too. This is very interesting from my phone. It is one collumn and the pictures are great!
Thank you Robin. Send me an email or any possible responses to test.
So as for replacing the Wiki: It seems like the implication is making single user threads that cover the machines individually like they do here:
It might be just a task of converting stuff from the currently existing wiki to this?
I was checking out that link to the SLM discourse and noticed that upon hovering over the calendar icon that it was a google calener as the backbone just like ours… Might be helpful if we are trying to replicate their calendar. Also planning to transition what we’ve got on the MDX to a specific thread like the one shown here. Thanks!
oh man if we can tie in event posts as google calendar events, we’re all tied together ! where is our current wiki by the way? i’d love to get started on just transcribing pages
@jpweisbecker and I were talking about the way our Forum is setup compared to SLM- and we had a couple of ideas that you can view here: Link
Predominantly, our goal is getting people onto the Forum as soon as possible, especially under current circumstances, But the ideal case is the forum is setup in a meaningful way, and I have some reservations about the number of different sections, especially compared to the google groups. We had a couple of ideas about that, which I’ll post here:
Proposal A:
Combining shops into per area, reducing number of categories
Per area
Events
Prototyping
3D Printers
Laser Cutters
Vinyl Cutters
Heavy Shops (Or better named?)
Wood shop
Metal shop
Machining
CNC Mill
Technical (Or Better named)
Electronics
Jewelry
Sewing
Digital
Learning Lab
Software (CAD modeling/etc)
Wiki
Tools Documentation
How to use Areas
Other?
Proposal B:
Similar to South London Makerspace setup
Discussion
Talk about things!
Projects
What are you working on?
Admin
Formal ticket system for bureaucracy
Events
Members
Opportunities for members, Seeking/selling
Rules
How To
Tools Documentation
Thoughts? I’d love more input about the overall design- and feedback on these proposals will be immensely helpful. I’m also interested in starting a more formal committee that makes choices about how the forum is managed, so it’s not just me making decisions for the rest of us-
Hi Pike! We’re still in the progress of moving things over from the Wiki- if that’s something you’d be interested in helping with, let me know! Those would go into the wiki category -> Tools documentation
Robin,
I signed up and would be happy to get things moving to the wiki, any recommended tutorials? Specific formats? I see the link the the South London Makerspace above is the plan to just copy that format?
Perhaps we should set up an online meeting with interested parties and discuss how to proceed so we dont go tripping over each other
I would vote for proposal A and B but I would not group the shops like that though.
Each Lab/Shop/Studio should have its own group as they do not necessarily intermingle in those ways.
I appreciate less categories but I feel they should still reflect logical functionality.
Although I guess the us of tags might be enough to make logical connections?
i created a post asking about tagging formats and ideas here - i think it’ll be a little more sane to use it then a ton of sub-categories personally, but yes i agree- let’s get more people together to talk about it!