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posted by NCommander on Monday November 07 2016, @12:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the whadaya-say? dept.

So, as per usual, I like to occasionally check the pulse on the community to make sure that people for the most part are happy and satisfied with the day-to-day operation of the site. For those of you who are new to the community, first, let me welcome you and explain how these work.

When I open the floor to the community, the intent is to provide a venue to discuss anything related to site operations, content, and anything along those lines. I actively review and comment on these posts, and if one issue pops up multiple times in comments, I generally run follow up articles to try and help address issues the community feels is important before someone decides to take rehash and form a spinoff. Feel free to leave whatever thoughts you want below.

In contrary to my usual posts, I don't have that much to say to this, so to both the community and editorial team's relief, I'll cut this off right here before it becomes Yet Another NCommander Novel.

~ NCommander

 
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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday November 08 2016, @01:02PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 08 2016, @01:02PM (#424046)

    Maybe a helpful thing to do is start an editorial calendar to track such things.

    Great minds thinking alike, I've agitated for years for something like that to hold space mission content.

    The technology is pretty far away from web log bulletin board thingies like this.

    If the startup scene didn't totally suck and if it had any creativity at all, some kind of "community calendar" social media technology would seem to be very start up able. Good luck with the UI, dealing with spam, thats where all the secret sauce would lie.

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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday November 08 2016, @07:29PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Tuesday November 08 2016, @07:29PM (#424201) Journal

    If the startup scene didn't totally suck and if it had any creativity at all, some kind of "community calendar" social media technology would seem to be very start up able. Good luck with the UI, dealing with spam, thats where all the secret sauce would lie.

    But what would a "community calendar" actually look like? Sounds like Google Calendar. Or Facebook events. Just spun off into a single focus website.

    Most people want to import a specific groups' events into their personal calendar. They don't want to dig through events for every group in the area. Where they do it's generally groups that are part of a larger group (ie, student groups at a university; or groups within an office) and they just have a calendar for the larger group that includes all of them already.

    Same goes for Soylent. Ideally we might want to find, for example, an ical feed from NASA of their events and just import that into ours. Of course, some organizations may not have such a calendar, and for those we'd have to track it ourselves. Which could get interesting. Thinking specifically about annual conferences, where the date and location aren't fixed but it still occurs at roughly the same time each year. So you could get interesting features like repeating events without a definite date...maybe it creates a "ghost" event on the same date next year just to remind someone to check and update it? But yeah that's veering way off topic now...

    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday November 08 2016, @07:57PM

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 08 2016, @07:57PM (#424215)

      Right but just like BBS software, or web discussion emulation of it, isn't a 3-d simulation of writing on notecards and sticking them on a physical cork board..

      Another good analogy is I'm old enough to have experienced the last few years of log files being a printer typing out logs and the logs getting tossed into a fireproof safe. If you stay under a couple hundred lines per day its not that ridiculous and dot matrix is inherently line oriented (laser printers being kinda page oriented...) But something like a standard ELK stack (elasticsearch logstash kibana) are not 3-d vrml simulations of my last log file printer from '96 or whatever.

      A "real" community calendar would have to handle both top down declarative stuff and bottom up suggestion workflows... have some kind of tagging of topics (I'm not into bio so some biology conference would be "eh" to me) some kind of moderation and likely metamoderation. And like you mention there's calendar entries that are pretty fuzzy like "rake up the leaves about this time of year".

      Doing it right ends up being a lot more complicated than just sharing google calendars. Although that would be better than nothing, I guess.