Codug.com Development

codug.com development wiki page

Note: This is a wiki page, be bold and suggest ideas and make changes! These goals, tactics, features, etc... are not set in stone, but are a collection of ideas and discussion by the group. In the end the site will be limited only by how much we use it. Currently CODUG has the following web sites:

• meetup

  • strengths: marketing, organizing meetups
  • established user base of non-drupal people to target
  • weaknesses: fostering discussion
  • seems cluttered less meeting centric since the layout change

• groups.drupal.org (current codug.com)

  • strengths: discussion, wiki, job listings, link hub
  • weaknesses: only Drupal people know about groups.drupal.org. It does everything, but not well.
    *needs better wiki syntax support

Goals

• Promote Growth of CODUG as a whole

• Education: "Provide a hub to share knowledge"

  • Paul: A hub, a link to everything: People, Ideas/Knowledge, Drupal

• Community Involvement

• In the end codug.com should be a vehicle to "promote real world interaction".

Audience Discussion

• PMs looking for possibilities/opportunities
• Clients looking for help, checking things out
• Developers: growing the local community by helping to provide knowledge and improve skillsets
  • Students
  • People who want to be developers
• Newbies who want to know what Drupal is all about

Tactics

1 Growth

• Meeting Management A centralized tool or set of tools to help us manage what happens before, during, and after meetings.
  • pre-meeting: topic, bar
    • Tools to push announcements from web site:
      • Social networks, professional organizations, educational organizations.
  • meeting: "instant feedback"
  • post-meeting: questions, follow-up, files/notes
• Consolidate Contacts Provide a way to make it easy to find people locally, contact, and meet each other.
• Metrics Establish and use metrics to help plot growth/retention
• Live Streaming

2 Education

• Usable and organized educational materials (do not mirror drupal.org)

  • Meeting screencasts, notes, a/v stream, other files (?)

• Instant Feedback (or) Ask An Expert?

  • This stems from Brian saying he always gets people asking him questions personally, and we should distribute the load.
  • Promote questions/content that are valuable to the community
  • Feedback or questions are related to meeting topics
  • Requires a core group of experts available. This is a very intensive tactic.
  • Instant feedback relates to a way of asking and answering a questions during the meeting itself.

3 Community Involvement

• Connect users to topics and thus to other users
  • "like" (flag/vote) topics?
  • A good method of finding and viewing users (i.e. not g.d.o, d.o., or meetup.com)

Features & Flow

Partially discussed at the 5/20/10 meeting. You can find a flowchart for the site here as well as corresponding source in DOT format.

• Event

  • Title - is topic related and marketable
  • Type of event
  • Identifying Logo (optional)
  • Date/time
  • Location
  • Sponsor(s)
  • Speaker(s)
  • Event Contact
  • Description
  • Topic(s) - taxomony
  • Supporting material - URL, Picture, File, Media
  • Rating
  • Q&A Listing
  • Ask a question
  • Aggregated Comments
  • Aggregated RSVPs (metrics by source)
  • Push Info to other sites using API, email - Meetup, Facebook, Twitter
  • Subcribe to topic(s)
  • Live streaming

Towards the goal of Education

• Usable organized Educational Material

  • Goal: Easy way to find topics from UI
  • Types:
  • Events
  • Links: Embedded Media / Case Studies / Use Cases / - tactic bring hits from Google
  • Job Postings
  • Q&A
    • Non-threaded. Social contract on unique answers by authorized members.
  • Need Community Involvement, posts connected to People
  • Push requested info with Email with teaser text

• People

  • Company (multiple)
  • Contact info
  • Website
  • Etc...
  • Topics/Interests (subscribed topics?)
  • Contributed Content (events, links, q&a, sponsorships)

• Sponsorship

  • Company
  • approved? (each company created by a user must be approved)
  • Ad
  • image
  • url
  • Sponsorship
  • type: event (one-time, but permanent) or organization-wide (renewable)
  • e-commerce stuff
    • free sponsorship for volunteers?
  • Ad: the ad to use, can be changed.
  • (non-site related perks)
    • can have a foam board at meeting
    • (event sponsor) can speak at meeting
  • How to handle finances/payments? 501C3?

• Donation

  • Simple donate feature