Can you spare 20 minutes to take a survey about a Drupal development project undertaken by researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology and Massey University in New Zealand? This NSF funded project -- OKES: An Open Knowledge Exchange System to Promote Meta-Disciplinary Collaboration Based on Socio-Technical Principles (NSF SOCS/IT Research Award Number 0968445) -- seeks input from Drupal developers as to how Drupal can be used to support traditional conference and unconference collaboration.
We are most interested in potential user behaviors and your sense of user rights and responsibilities regarding such a conference support system. By taking the survey, you will help the NSF project investigators in refining functions that are relevant, adequate and pertinent to community-mediated systems of open academic exchange. Once developed, this system's code will be available to the entire Drupal community.
The survey can be accessed via this link: http://ec2-75-101-253-81.compute-1.amazonaws.com/limesurvey/index.php?si...
More information about this project can be found at: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0968445&WT.z_pim...
Please direct any questions you may have to:
Rob Friedman, PhD
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Humanities
431 Cullimore Hall
Newark, NJ 07102
Telephone: 973 596 5765
Email: friedman@njit.edu
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Pick a group
You have posted this in 23 unrelated groups. To be honest, I don't know what group, if any, this is on topic for so I haven't edited it. Please decide where you want it to go and either edit the posting or respond here if you don't have access to edit the group list.
Michelle
It was supposed just be
It was supposed just be posted under jobs. The groups I thought I chose were Seattle, Spokane, Olympia & Fit. I'll try and go back and edit.
Thanks,
Pete
Looking for input
Michelle,
I apologize in advance as I am new to this site and its groups. I am working with a professor at NJIT on an NSF-funded research project. He asked me to join the groups you see listed above and post a request for participation in our survey regarding a drupal-based system we are proposing to create. Specifically, we are looking for a broad cross-section of respondents so that we can determine user interest in the various proposed functions of the system to be created. That is why I posted to so many unrelated groups. If there is a better way of achieving the result, please let me know and I will be more than happy to do that. I certainly don't mean to break any protocols.
Thanks,
regina
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You're looking at this backwards. The idea isn't to post to a ton of groups because you want a lot of people to see it. The idea is to post to groups where it is on topic. If you just want a lot of people to see something, use the forums. These groups are for people working together around a specific topic and sending emails to all those people for something unrelated to what they are working on just because you want lots of attention is considered rude.
As a general rule, 99% of posts shouldn't be on more that 3 groups at most and generally only 1. It's a very rare post that will be on topic for 23 different groups.
So please ask your professor to narrow this down to just groups where it is on topic or to post this in the forum instead.
Michelle
Interested in any follow up information
I'm a web developer for the Delta Science Program in CA and have been web chair for our Bay-Delta Science Conference for the last 6 years. We completed our most recent conference in October of 2010 and I used Drupal with the Conference Plugin(discontinued as of D5). It was not entirely successful, for many reasons, but I would be very interested in your approach and how you plan to tackle the issues involved with paper submissions and reviews. I've been following the C.O.D module for a while and it's good, but not quite to par for what we need it seems to be a very good start. I just completed the survey and would be more than willing to share my anecdotal information regarding Drupal installations for our Science Conference. Best of luck with your endeavors.
Dustin Boeger
Webmaster
Delta Science Program
dboeger@deltacouncil.ca.gov
Please Make a New Topic
I realize it's very easy to just hit reply and continue this discussion. However, your replies get broadcast to 23 different groups.
Would it be possible for those who want to continue this discussion to make a new topic and restrict it to relevant groups?
Even though I'm an admin for the Nanaimo Users Group, it does not appear possible for me to remove our group from this discussion, and it's not relevant to the purpose of our group. By placing your discussion in the relevant group(s), our members can still locate it and participate; but this way it doesn't demand the limited time of those who are not interested in the discussion or able to participate in the project.
I realize I'm asking you to move your discussion into a new topic and that's a pain, but I'm not trying to be difficult. It's actually a bit of a pain that we're being included. I'm sure you don't want that, and people replying to this topic may not realize they are having their replies posted to many groups where the topic is not relevant.
Thanks in advance for your consideration and help with this!
Thank you for your suggestion
I apologize for the broadcasting - I didn't realize that would be the case. Can you please guide me through the process of how I can remove the discussion from the various groups and put it in one central location?
Thank you, and again, I apologize.
New Topic
I'm not an expert on using groups.drupal.org functions; I just started using it not too long ago. I went into the topic and edited the groups it was being sent to down to the only one that seemed relevant, Open Data in Education. Not sure if there are other groups out there that would also be relevant.
My intent was to remove it from Nanaimo User Group, but I seem to have the power to edit it across the board. I think it's only going to that group now. That's the only group I see listed in the first post in the topic. Seems I might have solved that problem then.
Do you have an 'edit' tab at the top of the discussion thread, above your first post? If so, you may be able to add groups through there. Otherwise, you could start a new topic and include only the most relevant group or groups. Then you could PM the people who are clearly interested from this topic and send them a link and explanation about the new topic.
Anyone else more experienced with this interface have a better suggestion?
Thank you
I really appreciate your help. I did look at the edit tab on the posting, but I couldn't see a way to "unselect" the groups that I had originally selected, so I really appreciate your help.
great idea
I think it is a new idea relating to the drupal projects,Normally drupal is not much involved in educational type of activities.in the next generation of drupal we need to concentrate on that kind of enhancement for drupal.I think it will be a greate plus for drupal.
Gireesh
Senior Drupal Developer
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