Apologies for this being an idea with no code attached. I'm hoping that some of the able folks are on this list and will see something achievable.
Something the Community Architecture folks and I have discovered is that when we sign up new folks for an account, there's not any way to mark them for follow up or to indicate a note for where they did it. A couple methods for doing this come to mind:
1. Simple but effective -- a way to tag account holders arbitrarily. This might help with a number of things, like skill sets, karma, and so forth. In this case, the tag would allow Ambassadors to follow up on particular shows by listing everyone with "FooCon 2008" in their tag list.
2. More complicated but possibly more predictable -- A plugin for FAS that would allow ambassadors to request or create a special signup portal, and use it at a show to help visitors sign up (e.g. join.fp.o/foocon2008 or foocon2008.join.fp.o).
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote:
Apologies for this being an idea with no code attached. I'm hoping that some of the able folks are on this list and will see something achievable.
Something the Community Architecture folks and I have discovered is that when we sign up new folks for an account, there's not any way to mark them for follow up or to indicate a note for where they did it. A couple methods for doing this come to mind:
- Simple but effective -- a way to tag account holders arbitrarily.
This might help with a number of things, like skill sets, karma, and so forth. In this case, the tag would allow Ambassadors to follow up on particular shows by listing everyone with "FooCon 2008" in their tag list.
- More complicated but possibly more predictable -- A plugin for FAS
that would allow ambassadors to request or create a special signup portal, and use it at a show to help visitors sign up (e.g. join.fp.o/foocon2008 or foocon2008.join.fp.o).
I'd say 2 is pretty easy in a plugin.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/promo/sign-up/MyPromo
where MyPromo could just be arbitrary. It'd get flagged somewhere that we could get it later.
The point of this is so users can sign up with some sort of flag on how they found out about Fedora, and then run stats on it later?
-Mike
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 15:52 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote:
Apologies for this being an idea with no code attached. I'm hoping that some of the able folks are on this list and will see something achievable.
Something the Community Architecture folks and I have discovered is that when we sign up new folks for an account, there's not any way to mark them for follow up or to indicate a note for where they did it. A couple methods for doing this come to mind:
- Simple but effective -- a way to tag account holders arbitrarily.
This might help with a number of things, like skill sets, karma, and so forth. In this case, the tag would allow Ambassadors to follow up on particular shows by listing everyone with "FooCon 2008" in their tag list.
- More complicated but possibly more predictable -- A plugin for FAS
that would allow ambassadors to request or create a special signup portal, and use it at a show to help visitors sign up (e.g. join.fp.o/foocon2008 or foocon2008.join.fp.o).
I'd say 2 is pretty easy in a plugin.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/promo/sign-up/MyPromo
where MyPromo could just be arbitrary. It'd get flagged somewhere that we could get it later.
The point of this is so users can sign up with some sort of flag on how they found out about Fedora, and then run stats on it later?
Not just stats, but also to get people "assigned" geographically to Ambassadors or some other mentor group, in a way that makes sense and maximizes stickiness.
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 15:52 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote:
Apologies for this being an idea with no code attached. I'm hoping that some of the able folks are on this list and will see something achievable.
Something the Community Architecture folks and I have discovered is that when we sign up new folks for an account, there's not any way to mark them for follow up or to indicate a note for where they did it. A couple methods for doing this come to mind:
- Simple but effective -- a way to tag account holders arbitrarily.
This might help with a number of things, like skill sets, karma, and so forth. In this case, the tag would allow Ambassadors to follow up on particular shows by listing everyone with "FooCon 2008" in their tag list.
- More complicated but possibly more predictable -- A plugin for FAS
that would allow ambassadors to request or create a special signup portal, and use it at a show to help visitors sign up (e.g. join.fp.o/foocon2008 or foocon2008.join.fp.o).
I'd say 2 is pretty easy in a plugin.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/promo/sign-up/MyPromo
where MyPromo could just be arbitrary. It'd get flagged somewhere that we could get it later.
The point of this is so users can sign up with some sort of flag on how they found out about Fedora, and then run stats on it later?
Not just stats, but also to get people "assigned" geographically to Ambassadors or some other mentor group, in a way that makes sense and maximizes stickiness.
So something more exact then timezone, locale and country or could this metric bet completely independent of those values?
-Mike
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Mike McGrath wrote:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 15:52 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote:
Apologies for this being an idea with no code attached. I'm hoping that some of the able folks are on this list and will see something achievable.
Something the Community Architecture folks and I have discovered is that when we sign up new folks for an account, there's not any way to mark them for follow up or to indicate a note for where they did it. A couple methods for doing this come to mind:
- Simple but effective -- a way to tag account holders arbitrarily.
This might help with a number of things, like skill sets, karma, and so forth. In this case, the tag would allow Ambassadors to follow up on particular shows by listing everyone with "FooCon 2008" in their tag list.
- More complicated but possibly more predictable -- A plugin for FAS
that would allow ambassadors to request or create a special signup portal, and use it at a show to help visitors sign up (e.g. join.fp.o/foocon2008 or foocon2008.join.fp.o).
I'd say 2 is pretty easy in a plugin.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/promo/sign-up/MyPromo
where MyPromo could just be arbitrary. It'd get flagged somewhere that we could get it later.
The point of this is so users can sign up with some sort of flag on how they found out about Fedora, and then run stats on it later?
Not just stats, but also to get people "assigned" geographically to Ambassadors or some other mentor group, in a way that makes sense and maximizes stickiness.
So something more exact then timezone, locale and country or could this metric bet completely independent of those values?
Another note on that, if we split up the ambassadors into regions (I suspect they already are) would it be better to just create a group for each region managed by the ambassadors?
-Mike
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:33:32PM +0000, Paul W. Frields wrote:
Apologies for this being an idea with no code attached. I'm hoping that some of the able folks are on this list and will see something achievable.
Something the Community Architecture folks and I have discovered is that when we sign up new folks for an account, there's not any way to mark them for follow up or to indicate a note for where they did it. A couple methods for doing this come to mind:
- Simple but effective -- a way to tag account holders arbitrarily.
This might help with a number of things, like skill sets, karma, and so forth. In this case, the tag would allow Ambassadors to follow up on particular shows by listing everyone with "FooCon 2008" in their tag list.
We could possibly do this by using the 'myfedora' application namespace that already exists in the FAS person config model. Each user in the db can have a list of configs for a variety of different apps (currently hardcoded to asterisk, moin, myfedora, and openid).
For MyFedora we were thinking about storing various widget settings in this field, but the namespace has not yet been decided on.
I'm not familiar with the FAS codebase, but we may be able to do something like this::
from fas.model import Person, Configs
Person.configs.append( Configs(application='myfedora', value="{ 'tags' : ['FUDCon2008Boston'], 'skills': ['python', 'c++', 'trolling'], 'karma' : -8, }"))
luke
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