On 2011-03-15 Jos wrote:
Hi boosters,
<snip dreaming> I've heard a little bird (ok, huge one) whisper to (yell at) me that I wasn't concrete enough. So, let's remedy that. Let me give a usecase. Note that for 90% of what's needed I have already added requests in Fate, see my other mail! And some things are already implemented by Henne. ==== use case ==== You're a Dutch ambassador and there's going to be an event. You want to organize an openSUSE booth & talks for this event and get the word out on that to everyone. So you create an event page in the calendar on Connect with data on the location and time, link to the site and the logo of the event. You set yourself as organizer and ask other ambassadors to add themselves as either speakers or ambassadors for the booth. Add a list of materials and ask the othe ambassadors to add what things they can bring, like laptops, networking gear and power connectors. Add a list with arrival- and departure times and let people say if they need travel sponsorship - once you have a clear overview of what is needed, you can discuss it with whomever has budget for this (marketing team/board/sponsors). The page will show up in the event calendar for your group (local dutch openSUSE team) and in the "upcoming events" calendar on news.opensuse.org! So you spread the word using this link and get people to show up there; you click the button "create a facebook event" and invite people there; you tweet/dent the event to your followers and add it to your own calendar downloading the ical file or clicking the google calendar button. Once you've attended the event, you add a picture gallery with photo's of the event and some info about how it went to the event page. Then tick the "event report done" box! The page now shows up in "events openSUSE has attended" on news.o.o and the report will be in OWN. Maybe it will even be part of the monthly news article on events in the past month & what's upcoming! The page now also shows up on your profile under "events this ambassador has organized" and the other ambassadors and speakers see their attendance on their pages as well. Isn't it awesome ;-) *Why connect?* In short, connect offers two big advantages over the wiki: a MUCH lower barrier to entry (big issue for the ambassadors!) and much more opportunities to automate and link things like the facebook and twitter buttons, ical files, integration in news.o.o, the tracking-of-events etcetera. Then of course connect is inherently a lot more social than the wiki - and for the work the ambassadors do that is exactly what is needed! The tracking of events & linking it to those who've been there offers very nice things: you can see who our most active ambassadors are and who's less active; you can see where we have events and where not. The lower barrier will hopefully lead to more and more ambassadors actually USING these facilities, which in turn gives us a better oversight. This will be/is needed to be able to plan things like ambassador travel/hotel sponsoring or the sending of materials! Cheers, Jos
Cheers, Jos