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#Clear and open source protocol for setting up, administering, and managing a forum. This would | #Clear and open source protocol for setting up, administering, and managing a forum. This would also serve as a manual that would facilitate the startup of forums by new OSE chapters, including a shared standard and the ability to share data. So that OSE maintains control of its data, ooen source software must be used. | ||
#Forum Moderator, and Moderator Team | #Forum Moderator, and Moderator Team | ||
#Clear User Agreement and Contributor Agreement to protect the open soirce nature of the community | #Clear User Agreement and Contributor Agreement to protect the open soirce nature of the community | ||
Revision as of 20:54, 24 December 2015
Overview
The OSE Forums (forum.pensourceecology.org) are currently unmanaged. OSE Forums have been around since 2008, but we never developed or installed a formal moderation process. Elifarley Cruz was a volunteer administrator for some time. Since then, updates on Facebook have served as a regular communication channel. Currently, Facebook is the main news and update outlet for the organization, such that anyone wishing to find out news and workshop announcements should follow the OSE Facebook Page.
As we go into the future OSE's goal is to upgrade the forum so that it can also be a part of our technical development process. Further, as OSE moves into the future and OSE chapters are started around the globe, our goal is to provide a model for how other chapters can start their own forums, especially if the forums are in a different language than English. To this end, here are the features and requirements that would help us meet these goals:
General
- Clear and open source protocol for setting up, administering, and managing a forum. This would also serve as a manual that would facilitate the startup of forums by new OSE chapters, including a shared standard and the ability to share data. So that OSE maintains control of its data, ooen source software must be used.
- Forum Moderator, and Moderator Team
- Clear User Agreement and Contributor Agreement to protect the open soirce nature of the community
- Easy login procedure and user permissions management
- Integration with Wiki regarding user login and profile, such as a contributor's skill set
Forum Features
Essential
- A good search feature
- creating new threads
- Structure consisting of only a few subject areas, such as Discussion, Development, Distributive Enterprise, and Community. Clear guidelines regarding each section are required, as well as at least one full time Moderator for the Forum. The funding mechanism for the Forum Moderator should be an OSE Distributive Enterprise, in order to further dogfood our products and community development process.
Secondary
- Map of contributors
- Badges
- Link to person's wiki profile and wiki log
Forum Structure or Information Architecture
The main current purpose of the OSE forum is to promote technical development of the GVCS. This includes all the tech ical developme t leading go robust product design - as well as to the creation of Distributive Enterprise related to the GVCS.This must be reflected in the forum structure. There are several supporting functions, including orientation of new participants, helping people find contributors in their area, development of new OSE groups and chapters, technical development per se, and development of Distributive Enterprise, etc.