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New Community Site - Basis and Ideas

New Community Site - Basis and Ideas

Thursday 18 June 2009 11:37:37 pm - 29 replies

Hi all,

As some of you know, we are looking at building a new community site and we are working on building a prototype together with a partner (Grenland Web) in Skien (Norway), our resources being focused on delivering the updated roadmap (cf. http://ez.no/ezpublish/roadmap )

This is far from a specification document but it shows the concepts and ideas we are thinking of.

We would like to discuss that at the Barcamp (Friday 26th, 3.00pm) at the eZ Conference and hopefully get feedback.

You can download this document at : http://ez.no/download/other_downloads/community_site_ideas

See you in Paris !

Modified on Tuesday 11 January 2011 9:58:43 am by Nicolas Pastorino

Sunday 27 September 2009 4:15:00 pm

Hi Piotrek,

Currently all users are included on the new site. I wouldnt say they are migrated because there is a single-sign-on linking the two sites, so users exist on both sites in some form.

User created content such as articles and forums should be part of the new site. Articles for sure, and forums are still being explored. Since we use eZFind 2 it makes sense to have all that old content available for relevant searches - something the present search system doesn't handle too well.

I think the bugs should stay with the existing system, but your user profile can show which bugs are yours - its simple to link it together.

There will be a ranking system similar to the present points system. However, its not clear yet how 'old' content such as old forums should be included. Should we start afresh or include everything?

What do you think?

Paul

Sunday 27 September 2009 6:18:13 pm

Bertrand,

thank you for your feedback. Especially the community manager sounds like a good idea. We will contact you in order to discuss things regarding us directly, but I though we also stood a good example of what's coming for many partners. I also didn't know about the 5 best community partners thing - any details on that?

Thanks,
Piotrek

Sunday 27 September 2009 6:19:35 pm

Paul,

As far as I'm concerned, articles aren't that much of an issue - important as they are, there aren't too many of them and they're easy to handle wherever they are.

However, forums are in my opinion the key ingredient of the existing community and of course it would be great to have them all moved to the new site and made searchable with eZFind as well as being able to vote on content (and use other planned functionalities). I believe that current ez.no forums cover at least 80% of all issues, faq's, problems, ideas, suggesions that users may require to become successful with eZ tools and I wouldn't like to see that waste, and that's what I think will happen if they are not moved to the new community site. Not to mention that the new site may have problems to go into living with old forums existing in parallel at current location blunk.gif Emoticon So my suggestion is to migrate everything, especially all the forums.

One of the tools I was always missing at ez.no was "my" area, where I would be able to find text links to the threads I have created myself (or possibly also taken part in). Also this would be great to simply see my own bug/issue submits, as you mentioned. These lists should be ordered chronologically at least.

If you plan to make rating systems, I hope they will be database and not session based, so that one user can only rate once ever or once every period of time. I believe it would really help to promote quality content if we knew that threads or articles weren't rated a thousand times over and over again blunk.gif Emoticon

Are projects.ez.no going to be integrated into the new community site? As far as I can remember - no, but please confirm.

If anything new comes to my mind, I'll share blunk.gif Emoticon

Cheers,
Piotrek

Monday 28 September 2009 9:13:38 am

Hi Piotr,

We will come back to all details around how community activities will be measured ( like the previous point system of the partner program). But the 5 most active companies globally will have the possibility to become a Business Partner for free.

That is it for now happy.gif Emoticon

Cheers.

Wednesday 14 October 2009 10:36:37 am

How will the new Community Site address eZ components project?
Related to: http://ez.no/developer/forum/suggestions/ez_components_forum

Friday 06 November 2009 7:18:36 am

So now that we have a separation between business partners and community partners, we can ask more about community partner reality. For example:

  • who's on the community company directory list and why?
  • how are the community directory entries ordered?
  • how can community partners work themselves up?
  • how does 5 most active companies globally actually mean and how is it assessed?

Also, even though the community partners are not listed here: http://ez.no/partners/worldwide_partners, they still have their partner objects with related references. Will that be kept? And also it seems like we lost the ability to edit that information...

Thanks,

Piotrek

Saturday 07 November 2009 4:25:48 pm

For me it's also completely not clear when you can be considered a "community partner". Are there requirements to become one? I did not find any information about that on ez.no, nor here.

Sunday 08 November 2009 8:39:30 pm

http://ez.no/partners/business_partner_program/partner_requirements mentions a Community Program, but a link to this document I can not find back anywhere.

Wednesday 21 July 2010 8:38:29 am

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