Tracking Public Crewing through Projects / OG

One of the things we've been looking at out here in Portland is effective crewing management and tracking through the Open Media Project. At PCM we follow a policy of "if you don't use it you loose it" where producers need to keep active (at least once a year) in order to keep their certifications up-to-date. We also follow a policy of needing to work on productions before you can start your own.

For most producers this is really important when it comes to studio certifications and one of the ways we use Facil is to track the crewing activity for productions. There's an example screenshot at the bottom of this post.

I've been thinking that PCM would need to customize the Organic Group module on which the project module is based in order to track producer activity within the project. Although at the moment we use crew tracking as simply an administrative function it could be used much more with this toolset:

• People looking for crew could see what projects producers have been involved in previously to see if they would be interested in their project
• People looking for crew could see a producer's credibility based on the shows they have been a part of and the amount of experience the
• Staff could identify various skills that producers could use some updating on through a better tracking mechanism.
• It would give producers more public recognition for their ongoing commitment to productions.

I wanted to see what OMP folk thought of this idea before we started to take this customization on. Would this be a helpful feature? Is there something that we're missing?

Example of current Facil display: