Team Chat Agenda, March 6, 2014
- meetup program status check
- any questions/suggestions from meetup organizers on good things we can do to support events
Playing it a bit free and easy this week as we catch up from last week.
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Jen Mylo
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andreamiddleton
Just a reminder that we have another WordCamp organizers’ orientation hangout today at 17:00 UTC: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103997538489675217618/events/cb0t9r9ogevi8lhis4p550q1suk
If you are on a WordCamp organizing team and have not yet had a chance to attend an orientation this year, this would be a great time to join in! There will be another one in two weeks, if today’s event is not convenient.
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Jen Mylo
The activity stream in profiles now has the updated data fields (posts on make blogs, additional trac activity, wc speakers, etc). Note that while we are backfilling all the old WC speaker info, it’s showing up as new activity because that activity is based on pub date. So on my profile, for example, the most recent item is “Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Portland 2010, 7 hours ago” because @camikaos entered those old PDX speakers earlier today.
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Jen Mylo
Team Chat Agenda, Feb 27, 2014
It’s the 4th Thursday of the month, so the focus is “Contrib recognition, site stuff” — kind of a perfect day to talk about profiles, right? Thinking we might try a combo IRC/hangout so we can show what we’ve done so far this week, and since Andrea, Ian, Cami, Rebecca, and I are all in the same place today. If that sounds good, will post a hangout link before meeting time.
To suggest additional agenda items, leave a comment.
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Chantal Coolsma
I will join on IRC tonight.
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Andy
Expanding WordCamp.org Data Fields
We collect a lot of information when organizing WordCamps, and it’s often saved to a 3rd party service like Google Drive, Dropbox, Trello, Basecamp, etc.
It’d be great if we could store this information on WordCamp.org sites instead.
What we’re proposing here is an expansion of data fields on WordCamp.org user profiles and post types. Some of the data will be public, while some of it — like contact information — will be private.
There’s a few benefits to taking this approach:
- We’ll reduce dependency on 3rd party services.
- It makes WordCamp.org sites more “turn-key”. No fussing with other apps.
- Data can be pulled into WordPress.org user profiles.
The fields proposed below are a starting point. They’re based on what we’ve used in spreadsheets at WordCamp Toronto over the last few years.
Let’s beat this up and make it better.
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Dustin Filippini
Excellent. I like the idea of keeping it centralized.
I notice the statuses on the post types. Would this also include embeddable forms to automatically create these posts when someone submits a talk or sponsor request or something?
I wonder what the viability of creating an on-site slidesharing service would be so we wouldn’t have to rely upon Slideshare, etc. to hold slide decks and losing the slides if that service goes away or the user cancels an account. It would be nice to have that somewhere on the WC.org side like videos are.
Would we want a website link for sponsors?
This is probably beyond the scope of this current discussion, but I can see this increase in data lead to a creation of more tools to help WC organizers. If we could get someone with some JavaScript mastery, we could create a dashboard to drag/drop around sessions to create the schedule in a Trello-like fashion. I also had a discussion with one of my speakers last year about creating a better check-in system when attendees arrive instead of using a Google Spreadsheet. The attendees post type could be extended too allowing for statuses of checked-in or not. If we couple this with the JSON API that will be coming to core, a lot could be done. Maybe, the check-in system could then be extended in the future to a mobile app that scans a barcode to check people in.
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Jen Mylo
We’re starting to think about doing away with the CPTs and using usermeta for stuff like this, bc we’d like to have people log in to wordpress.org before buying a ticket, applying to speak etc. I think having anything requiring scanning is not a great idea (when WCs use QR codes it kind of sucks), but having a web-based check-in system tied to the profile is definitely on the wish list. Are you mostly theorizing/suggesting, or would you be interested in working on developing some of this stuff with us?
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Dustin Filippini
Both, Jen. I’ll definitely help out with creating some of this stuff.
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David Laietta
If help is needed in filling info out on the spreadsheet, I’ve been to a fair number of camps in the Southeast and can see what I can add upon.
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Jen Mylo
New Authors
Some new people will be posting to this blog as we add more people in positions of responsibility, just wanted to give some context.
- Andy McIlwain (@andymci, Toronto ON, Canada) is going to be taking a lead role in helping with the meetups program, as anyone who’s followed the team chats might have already figured.
- Cami Kaos (@camikaos, Portland OR, USA) handles the billing/payments, contracty stuff, cameras, swag, etc for our support of WordCamps and meetups, and will start postly weekly updates so we can increase transparency about things are run (not to mention so folks can appreciate how much work goes into that support).
- Rebecca Collins (@rebeccaAC12, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia) has been handling conference sponsorships for Automattic for more than a year, and while a bunch of those events are done as Automattic, some are done as WordPress. She’ll start coordinating the WordPress events via this team so that people will know where we’ll be, and so we can coordinate local volunteers for tables/booths at relevant events.
Welcome, Andy, Cami, and Rebecca!
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Jen Mylo
Profiles: A Sketch
Thank you to everyone who’s been leaving comments and suggestions on the thread from yesterday, and keep adding to that thread, I’ll be bookmarking it for continual review.
Anyway, here’s an update on this project.This week Ian Dunn and Scott Reilly have been cranking out code, testing, hunting for the bugs, re-testing, etc. Mel Choyce and I have had our heads together on design, and Andrea Middleton and Cami Kaos have been heads down with volunteers on backfilling the WordCamp.org data for speakers and organizers*. We plan to launch something today, but it will definitely be a v1, and I’m proposing we (being whoever wants to work on it moving forward, not necessarily this specific group of people) work on iterations in 2-week cycles moving forward so that improvements (even small ones) are continually making the profiles better.
The way I’m looking at profiles from a ux perspective is that for a visitor, the profile serves as someone’s WP resume, while for the profile owner, it serves as the dashboard for their involvement in the open source project. Based on that, here are the requirements for design:
- No one’s profile should look sad and lonely because they are new to the project or currently inactive.
- Seeing someone else’s profile should do the same thing as WordCamps, and help with the goal of our informal 3-word catchphrase (inspire*connect*contribute).
- The first look when you land on a page should give you a sense of who someone is, and what their involvement level is.
- It should be easy to see involvement by area/tasks, collections of things, activity in any part of wordpress.org. Including both a big-river activity stream and breakout views would be the base of this, with an infinitely extensible UI to allow for adding more areas of activity as we start to connect them to the central profile.
- Recognize contributors who are part of recognized contributor teams with a curated badge (vs pure quantity generating: imagine a forum volunteer and a spammy commenter/questioner both getting a badge saying they’re on the support team based on their activity numbers — yuck!). We’ll have to come up with a transparent metric for deciding what level/frequency of activity makes someone a ‘team member’ vs a contributor in that area. I’ll start checking in with each team and ask the team reps to help wrangle those decisions on a team-by-team basis.
So here’s the sketch I did yesterday for Ian to use as the starting point. Please take this in the spirit it’s offered; it’s just the working sketch/a set of ideas, and we’ll wind up with whatever we wind up with and then continue to iterate. So try not to get hung up on specifics yet.
Jen’s sketch of profiles redux project v1
- The top part serves as an overview for the person. Picture and user info is in the upper left, while the upper right is available for badges and special designations (like in this fake-nacin example, a custom status might say “Lead Developer” above the badges). If there is no activity, the picture and metadata will look like a nice digital business card with some lovely white space rather than a gaping, empty maw. Note it includes the join date that people have added from the forum profile, as well as more social media links, swiped from gravatar profiles. The badges are going to be done using dashicons on colored circle backgrounds to keep the wp logo branding style in play. Note: WordCamp speakers will be included in this, but the giant backlog of missing and/or nonexistent usernames will mean it takes a while to get those caught up.
- The stats bar below the top will likely be v2 (esp since Scott is leaving today), but the idea is that it would highlight your areas of greatest activity/contribution. So if we identified say 20 potential stats that could go there, someone might have 5, or 3, or 10, or however many depending on how spread out their activity is. There would be no empty/0 counts. Someone with lots of docs activity would have different stats showing that someone who’s mostly in core or WordCamps, for example. We talked about doing a cool graph or visual treatment, but we’ll consider that again later based on availability of people to make something like that.
- Below the stat bar is the main content area. Here’s where it diverges — this sketch is layout A, which uses a left-hand nav/psuedo-tab approach to swap out the content in the main area. This is the layout I’m working on. Mel is working with Layout B, which has the same top part, but instead of separate sections to click on below, will put all the activity in one long screen. We’re going to use the same information/data and styling for both so that we can do a little A/B testing to see which layout approach people think is better/easier to use.
Some of the bits of data in the sketch don’t exist yet, but we’re going to work on adding them. The stats bar may have to wait until v2 for timing reasons. I’m pretty excited, though, and I think this will be a great improvement over what we have now. Look for a status update by the end of today or tomorrow at latest. Thanks!
*I spent a couple of hours doing this data backfill and it is TERRIBLE having to search all over google to find usernames and try them out only to find that really prominent people in the community who’ve spoken at multiple WCs don’t have a wordpress.org account at all. Makes me even more itchy for the next WC project, to have people log in/register at wordpress.org to buy a ticket, apply to speak, etc.
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DailyPlugin
This is a great improvement. Much easier to get in touch with plugin developers!
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Mel Choyce
A little late, but here’s the one-column version based on the sketch @jenmylo posted:
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Bryan Petty
Not necessarily an issue on the profile page itself, but highly related to that, I’ve started to realize just how confusing it actually is that usernames and avatars throughout make.wordpress.org blogs themselves never actually even link to the main WP.org profile page being improved here, and also, they still link to two completely unique locations (your Gravatar profile, and Author pages for posts on each blog individually).
So, for example, let’s take Jen’s posts. You’ll find that her username links to any of the following locations:
- http://en.gravatar.com/jane (through her avatar picture of course)
- http://make.wordpress.org/community/author/jenmylo/
- http://make.wordpress.org/core/author/jenmylo/
- http://make.wordpress.org/ui/author/jenmylo/
- http://make.wordpress.org/meta/author/jenmylo/
- other Make blogs, etc…
Note that from any author links on the Make blogs, none of them even link to her profile page:
I’d like to make the (somewhat large) suggestion that all of the above link to just the main profile page, but maybe just when new profile pages actually include activity from posts and comments on any of the Make blogs as well.
Jen Mylo
Profiles: How Do You Use Them (or Want To?)
Hi all. As you know we’re working on a profiles update, and given all the new stuff it’ll include, it’ll get some new design as well. We’re trying to figure out what is most important to show in the default view, how to categorize sections/views, and in terms of layout, how to structure it so that no one’s profile looks like crap if they haven’t participated in much of anything yet. To that end, if you have a minute, can you comment with the answers to these questions? If you have time to ask some people you know and get their input as well, go for it. Thanks!
- When you go to a wordpress.org profile, what are you looking for? If you go for multiple things, which are most important to you?
- Is there information we don’t currently show in our profiles that you would find helpful?
- Currently we have sections for Activity Stream (temporal information) and several “collections” of a person’s stuff (plugins and themes they’ve authored, plugins they’ve favorited, etc). Changes to items in a collection show up in the activity stream as well, but the collections are not tied to a temporal display. Does stream + collections make sense, or should the collection items just be part of the stream, or should they be separate but on the same view based on type, or do you have any other ideas on whether this distinction is useful or irrelevant? Any thoughts or ideas are worth sharing here.
- Feel free to add any other new thoughts on profiles, but be prepared for us not to act on them in this week’s project given the timing.
Update: If you don’t know how to find the profile I’m talking about, it’s at http://profiles.wordpress.org/yourwordpressdotorgusername
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Boone Gorges
> When you go to a wordpress.org profile, what are you looking for? If you go for multiple things, which are most important to you?
Top two for me: 1. Where they’re contributing (recent activity). 2. Lists of plugins/themes contributed.
> Does stream + collections make sense
I like the split. If collections were part of the stream, plugins/themes that haven’t been updated in a while would be deemphasized. (And if the person has had a flurry of recent activity, this could happen even with items that were fairly recently updated.)
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Sam Sidler
The top thing I look for on a profile is information about who they are, generally. Blog or social media.
The top thing I *want* to see is contact information. I’d love to see a form to contact someone (email them) or something along those lines, though I know it’s not necessarily feasible. (Unless… BuddyPress!
)I think the stream/collections split makes sense.
However, I’d love it if I could go back in time in the stream. Some contributors contribute in spurts, which makes it hard to see everything they’ve done recently (things get buried), but more so, it’s nice to look back at contributions over time for all contributors.
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Jen Mylo
In the existing stream we don’t go back indefinitely on everything, but I did ask Scott about including that for this project. If it doesn’t make it in this week, it can be in v2.
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Sam Sidler
Sounds good. I know it’s not a simple thing to go back indefinitely, but more than just a few items would actually be useful. As it stands now, the stream can be useful or completely useless depending on the contributor.
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Jen Mylo
Agreed, and that’s just what we were saying yesterday.
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Jose
+1 on the contact info.
That is one of the top two things I look for in a profile. The first being just basic information about who the person is.
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verdonv
Boone has said it well. I also like the idea of a list of ratings/reviews.
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camikaos
“When you go to a wordpress.org profile, what are you looking for?” – How the person contributes, how long they’ve been involved, personal blog or site.
“Is there information we don’t currently show in our profiles that you would find helpful?” – The ability to easily get to my profile would be lovely. Community contributions. Which WordCamps they’ve organized, spoken at, or volunteered for.
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@ubernaut
some more basic stats might also be good like counts for forum replies date joined that kind of thing.
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Jen Mylo
We won’t do it in this week’s project, but ultimately I’d like to merge these profiles with teh forums profiles so there’s just one wp profile to rule them all.
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Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
My precious! The ‘Member since…’ date would be awesome
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Jen Mylo
On the list in the “swipe from forums stuff” section.
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David Laietta
If I’m logged in, I’d like to see it as a place to view support threads for things that I’ve uploaded, or even a simple button to subscribe to those things. Basically easier to keep track of when I have support threads started for plugins.
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Chris Reynolds
I love the wp.org profiles. However, I get weirded out by the Google Map marker. I know this is opt-in, based on my location, but I *do* want my location available, I just don’t like a marker pointing at me, so there’s that.
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Jen Mylo
We’re thinking we’ll ditch the map and just list it as text like on the support forum profiles.
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esmi
+1 for ditching the map. It’s a little pointless unless you just so happen to be in the same city/area as someone else which, statistically, is unlikely. I definitely like the activity stream as It provides a better all-round picture of someone’s contributions. The more pulled from different areas, the better, IMO.,
Sam mentioned contact information. I think that would have to handled carefully and on an “opt-in” basis. I can see some of the support regulars feeling a bit skittish about contact details.
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tskk
+1 to contact details being opt-in
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Jen Mylo
I’m anti contact info for a variety of reasons, but for a future iteration could see looking at messaging per sam’s point above (built into buddypress, etc) or at least letting user enter a url for a contact form on one of their sites or something.
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Sam Sidler
Fully agreed here. I don’t think we should just expose contact information, I just want a way to contact community members from their page. As Jen mentions below, an optional link (to a form) or using the built-in BuddyPress messaging would both be options here.
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Alexander Gounder
The map is too small to be of any use… and the detail that it’s zoomed into might not be close if they’ve mentioned just a country!
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jonradio
This is “just me”, but I quite like people to know what City I live in, but strongly object to people knowing where in that City I live, or my home or cell phone number, lest I suffer the fate of my personal software hero (the late Dr. Ralph Griswold), and get phone calls or people showing up at my door at 3:00 a.m., asking for help with my Open Source software.
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Jen Mylo
We wouldn’t display that level of info anyway.
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Ulrich
At the moment you only see the theme reviews that have been closed and not those that have been approved. I wonder if the contributions to the plugin and theme handbooks can be displayed also.
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Jeremy Herve
> When you go to a wordpress.org profile, what are you looking for?
In order, Profile info, recent threads, and then plugins/themes.
> Is there information we don’t currently show in our profiles that you would find helpful?
I would love to see a better separation between forum, plugins.trac, and core contributions. At the moment all this is mixed in a single activity stream, with no way to filter or see only one type of information.
> Does stream + collections make sense
I like how it is today. I would just add more filtering options, and maybe a true representation of the activity in each section. Right now the activity stream seems to pick a few forum threads, a few commits, but never displays everything. With filters, we might be able to display everything.
> Feel free to add any other new thoughts on profiles
As others already mentioned, I’d love to see a ‘Member since…’ section.
I would also like to see the Notifications link a bit more. I know it’s there, but I think it’s a great feature and I wish more wp.org users would use it.
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andreamiddleton
a better separation between forum, plugins.trac, and core contributions
+1
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Diana
What about a rss feed for my own
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Jen Mylo
With the switch to BuddyPress activity streams, that would be totally doable.
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Jan Dembowski
I like that idea. RSS feeds for sub-forums or news feeds?
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Valerio Souza
Seeking all she ever did. (Plugin, Themes, Core).
But missing contributions in translations.If there is some connection with WordPress (works at Automattic, WordCamp organizer, etc..)
Social networks
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Marius Jensen (Clorith)
I like the social networks idea (fields for facebook/twitter/G+ or something like that), a lot of contributors like to interact with users and potential contributors via them.
A connection to the forum titles would be nice, I think that would pick up Automatticians, WC organizers etc to some extent, I know at least some of them have forum titles.
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Jen Mylo
The working plan is to pull in social media connections that have been set up in the person’s gravatar profile since we already use it for the picture based on email, and then we don’t have to make people edit the info in multiple places.
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jonradio
Although not exactly on topic, I should start by mentioning that the first two plugin authors that I looked at, had managed to “mess up” in the sense that their Profile does not “know about” their plugins. I cannot speak for the others but, in my own case (I was one of the two that messed up), it was caused by me using my “name” (jonradio) instead of my login ID (adiant) in my plugins’ author fields. Best way that I know to resolve this, and now I’m back on Topic, is to make it easy to change your login ID from within the Profile page, without losing all your history of support responses, etc.
Back to Topic: When I go to a Profile, I am usually trying to figure out “how” to speak to the person. Are they an experienced PHP programmer? Do they have I.T. experience? If so, does it include formal Development environments, with separate Prod/Dev/Test environments. Does their I.T. experience including Data Centres, backups and the like? Do they know SQL statements? Do they know MySQL? Do they know HTML? Do they know JavaScript? Do they understand graphics? Do they understand digital audio? …digital video? FTP? Text Editors? etc.
How strong is their English? I’ve got burned not knowing that a person posted a question using Google Translate. When they used Google Translate to translate back it came out almost as bad as “Your dog has fleas.”
Oops, I almost missed the most obvious omission of all in the current Profile: no indication of what year the WordPress.org ID was first created.
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Samuel Wood (Otto)
Best way that I know to resolve this, and now I’m back on Topic, is to make it easy to change your login ID from within the Profile page, without losing all your history of support responses, etc.
That is not possible in the current system. The username is not the main ID in WordPress and associated properties, but not all of our connected systems use the ID number. Trac, codex, SVN, these use the usernames. Changing the username means retroactively changing every mention and use of that username throughout all connected systems. Which is a big, big job (and in the case of SVN, not actually possible without a complete rebuild every time it happens).
Your username, in a lot of places, is the sole-identifier for your identity. You cannot change it without loss of that identity information.
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Aubrey Portwood
I’d love to see all the tickets on trac I’m involved in. I find myself hunting through email to find a ticket I commented on a while back.
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jonradio
+1 on that idea (TRAC)
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Jen Mylo
trac comments and follows will be in the new streams, as listed in the post last week, so yay!
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hanni
Squee!
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Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
Maybe a link to http://make.wordpress.org/core/reports/ stuff?
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Pippin Williamson
Yes please!
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BrashRebel
I really like the WordCamp connection thought process (attended, spoke, sponsored, organized, volunteered, etc.). I would also love to see some connection with WordPress.tv videos. Visiting a profile and being able to go directly to videos of WC presentations by them would be powerful.
Less specifically I think some data indicating more of what the user does do and wants to do with WordPress. Skills, contributions, business applications, areas of interest, etc.
Along a crazier line of thought, I wonder whether something akin to a Klout score would be neat? Measuring how active someone is across the web…probably not the place for that though.
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Jen Mylo
wordpress.tv is definitely on the roadmap, but will take some extra work because like meetup.com, it’s tied to a 3rd party ID system (in this case wordpress.com, which hosts .tv on their videopress service), so we’ll need to invest some time in doing username match-ups for all of those too (and it is a pain in the butt, based on how time consuming it is just looking up speakers and organizers from WCs… you’d be surprised at how many never created a wordpress.org account at all).
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mrwweb
I come first to see who they are (website, location, position, social media profiles) then how they contribute.
Separating out plugins, themes, WordCamp talks given (or wp.tv), etc. is good. Those major accomplishments would get lost in a stream and feel pretty different from leaving a comment on a blog make.wordpress.org post or support topic.
For some people the favorites plugins list is great to, but I’d put that as a lower priority.
If the profiles did move toward a mostly-stream view, it would be cool if those “major” events were sticky by default and other stream events could be made sticky.
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Andy
Haven’t read through all the comments yet, but here’s my $0.02:
- How is this person working with WordPress?
- What have they contributed to WordPress?
- I use the “Favourite” feature more as a “bookmark this plugin” feature… so maybe different ways to organize/tag those plugin listings on your profile.
And stolen from Jeffro in a chat today: “the WordPress.org user profile is hell of a lot better showing of WordPress knowledge than a certification.”
Marius Jensen (Clorith)
Is there any plans to involve the IRC users in the activity stream in any way (I gotta represent my people here, haha). I know that the people contributing, my self included, aren’t very active on say the forums for example (in regard to giving support and so on), and many of them only contribute in that way but they devote a lot of their time via it. So there’s the risk of valuable contributors in that aspect being left out, which of course would be less than ideal.
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Jen Mylo
So, active members providing support would definitely be called out as members of the support team (get the badge etc), but for activity streams it’s trickier. How would you imagine incorporating IRC support into the activity stream, can you give an example?
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Marius Jensen (Clorith)
I have some ideas, although without knowing the architecture of the IRC bots we have, I can’t say if they are doable;
Well, we have the bots that log all the channels, and nicks can be registered and identified as. I’m wondering if the bot can do a check when a user first joins if they are identified, and if so attach that to the log lines spoken by that person. Of course you might not have been so lucky as to have gotten your own name, so we might need an “IRC Nick” field in your profile settings.
Once we have that, maybe an activity graph or something by nickname that is cached for X hours/days (so as not to tax the system) could be an idea?
Of course hide the IRC stuff if you haven’t supplied an IRC nick. It won’t necessarily show how many people you help, but it would indicate community activity and interaction.
Of course that’s just a rough idea to get the suggestions and ideas flowing
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kmessinger
I have this profile, http://profiles.wordpress.org/kmessinger and this profile, https://wordpress.org/support/profile/kmessinger
Not sure why there are 2.
+1 And stolen from Jeffro in a chat today: “the WordPress.org user profile is hell of a lot better showing of WordPress knowledge than a certification.”
wacoh_327
1. I would love to have the resolved issues lists in the profiles page, like “Resolved Threads”
This could be very helpful for the people who views your profile.
For example, when a user have an issue and I’m the one who solves it. Then 3 months later, they encountered the same issue, if they remember, they can just go to my profile and find the resolved thread.
2. Can we have our personal website url in our profile?
3. A lists of contribution into WordPress would be a great new feature.
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Ian Dunn
2. Can we have our personal website url in our profile?
It actually already supports that; you can enter it at http://profiles.wordpress.org/wacoh_327/profile/edit/group/1/
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Jen Mylo
One thing I’d like to do is have more than one URL: personal, work, photoblog, whatever. Am thinking that since we use gravatar for the photos already, we could co-opt their multiple website listings in addition to their social media account lists. The only thing is that we’d definitely want to be able to identify the primary url for the user summary bit, so I’ll check with gravatar folks to see if they could add the ability to designate one site a primary.
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Daedalon
4. Being able to find a thread I want to return to. The same as Wacom’s #1, but I believe the best resolution is a search, which could have filtering parameters like “show only tickets from [support forums] that are [resolved]“.
simplethemes
Really glad to see this coming to life. As a new contributor, I was *just thinking this whole section could use some love.
Some ideas that I think users would like to see (and use) at some point:
- Activity
- - Code: Themes & Plugins (sortable by rating, release date and recently updated)
– Core contributions
– Active Support/Forum Topics
– Ratings/Reviews I’ve given
– Status: What I’m working on
– Social
— Website
— Latest tweets tagged #wporg (or something) by user
— RSS Import from user blogs (this could be a moderation nightmare, though).
— Country or State or City (with user display preference)
— Featured Site (Latest WP powered) meh?
A “badge generator” for users to embed on their websites the profiles section would also be nice. The “Proudly Powered by WordPress” is cool and all, but it could be something the community would enjoy using. Maybe as a Jetpack add-on?
Just some ideas. Thanks to everyone involved.
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Jose
The badge generator does sound like a pretty neat idea.
Torsten Landsiedel
I would like to see a tabbed UI for the profile pages.
At first contact details (including Social Media, like Twitter, Google+, etc.) maybe taken from Gravatar
Tabs: My Forum Activity / My Contributing Activity / My favorite plugins / My favorite themes (new, see: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/28) / My Reviews
Forum Activity should show international forums as well and a filter (e.g. just show all unresolved posts for my plugin, show all threads I started, etc.)
Now we have three different profiles. It would be really great if we have just one tabbed profile for all things we do on WP.org.
http://profiles.wordpress.org/zodiac1978
http://wordpress.org/support/profile/zodiac1978
http://de.forums.wordpress.org/profile/zodiac1978
Siobhan
It would be cool to see information about activity on the make blogs.
With regards to docs, there’s a lot of projects in the air that I’d like to see integrated in a later version. For now, links to Codex pages edited would be great.
Future docs things that could be represented on profiles could be:
- handbook pages edited
- code reference submissions
Not sure if this is in the scope or how it would work but it would be cool to see some sort of visual representation of where a person is most active. Like a badge appears when a certain number of forum posts have been answered, or patches committed in core, or trac pages responded to, or whatever.
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Ian Dunn
It would be cool to see information about activity on the make blogs.
I’m pretty sure we’re planning on adding posts/comments to the activity stream. Is there anything else that’d be valuable? Handbook page edits should be pretty easy to add in too.
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Jen Mylo
Yes, posts and comments on make blogs are part of the v1 updates. The list of stuff already in v1 is in the post from last week: http://make.wordpress.org/community/2014/02/20/profiles-work-v1/ cc @siobhan
We’re incorporating a lo-fi badge system as part of it also, though tied to general involvement vs milestones. Adding milestones to the activity stream would likely be v2.
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hanni
+1 on Handbook page revisions. All those who contribute to the handbooks should be noted as having done so.
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Jan Dembowski
Not sure if I missed this in the replies but this sort of functionality akin to @keesiemeijer‘s page would be fantastic.
http://www.stoerke.be/recentforumactivity/?profile=jdembowski&pages=5
That alone would make me visit my profile page as a starting point for forum support. As his logs can tell you I hit that page all the time.
Kaspars
It would be really cool to have RSS and/or JSON feeds for all of this meta activity so that it could be pulled into personal blogs and profiles.
bjorn2404
TinyMCE for biographical info and more hooks would be fantastic.
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bjorn2404
Nevermind – completely misread this.
Jeff Chandler
The first thing I look for on a WP.org user profile is the persons real name. It’s kind of goofy to write about someone and have to use their profile username. Unfortunately, many have left those fields on their profile blank.
It would be great if there was a way to contact someone or if they had some contact information available whether it’s skype, Private messages, etc.
I’d like to see the Location data in profiles be put to good use. Right now, there is no easy way to find out how many WordPress people are in my area without doing some sort of grassroots effort to figure it out. It would be cool if in the future, I could create a group on .org and add people to it that are in my geographical area based on the location data in their profile.
A general question I have. It looks like the activity stream will be just one big firehouse of activity. Will there be anyway to sort through that firehouse on the profiles page?
I can’t wait to see Forum profiles and .org Profiles merged because they are a source of confusion for me. I’m looking for things in one profile which are only available in the other. Frustrating.
Also would love to see a Trophy Case like area on .org profiles to list out badges and accomplishments aka milestones and then, be able to easily share that info in a text widget.
Stephen Edgar
I just checked out the profiles with the now added activity, awesome.
It would be great if we also pulled in bbPress & BuddyPress Support forum topics and replies also.
Stephen Edgar
I’ll add another request, bbPress & BuddyPress Trac activity please
Siobhan Bamber (siobhyb)
> When you go to a wordpress.org profile, what are you looking for? If you go for multiple things, which are most important to you?
When visiting someone’s .org profile, I look for their most recent activity, profile description, and links to sites or blogs.
> Is there information we don’t currently show in our profiles that you would find helpful?
We don’t currently show contributions to the codex, translations, #wordpress IRC, handbooks, Make blogs, WordCamps…
I think it would also be cool to have a way of ‘giving back’ or showing appreciation to contributors through their profiles. Some ideas of ways to do this:
- A “Kudos” feature. A “This person has received 5 Kudos points.” message on someone’s profile would show that 5 people had stopped by to give “Kudos” to that contributor. (Disclaimer: Those reading this from Automattic will know that I’ve copied this idea straight from Automattic’s internal profiles!)
- Space for an Amazon wishlist or a Gittip link in the social link area.
I’d also like the ability to scroll back through and explore all the information in a person’s “My Activity” stream rather than being restricted to the select pieces given in the current profiles.
Jen Mylo
@sabreuse: There hasn’t been a community team post over on /updates since January 31st, despite the fact that the past few weeks have been a flurry of activity for us. Are you still up for team rep/updates? If your schedule’s gotten too busy, we can take updates off your plate for now and have someone else post them.
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Amy Hendrix (sabreuse)
That would be great — it looks like I’ll be this busy for the next 2-3 weeks; I should be able to pick updates back up after that.
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Jen Mylo
Okey-doke. I’ll pick it up until you have the availability.
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Jen Mylo
FYI, we were accepted as a mentoring organization for GSoC!
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bravokeyl
great !!
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