- Looks like you got it right to me
2 years 38 weeks ago - errr... wait, I already
2 years 38 weeks ago - Found a way to create input by content type
2 years 38 weeks ago - Fred...
2 years 38 weeks ago - A Blog post explaining how to implement application forms
2 years 39 weeks ago - Mentor, Entrepreneur Roles,
2 years 40 weeks ago - I'd like to delete entrepreneur and mentor roles
2 years 40 weeks ago - Projects tab showing the list of projects
2 years 40 weeks ago - How to get input format as wiki format for wiki pages
2 years 41 weeks ago - Still a couple of things to set up
2 years 41 weeks ago
Tab Menus
Submitted by FredericBaud on Wed, 09/26/2007 - 11:30.
I added four tabs in addition to Home and Forums.
I propose that we discuss what the tabs should give access to:
Home
Should give access to the home page. We have the same kind of question that for B&F Watch. What should be the content of this home page. It should be editorial, and easy to edit. Maybe some kind of inclusion of a wiki page?
Projects
This should give access to the list of projects and probably some tools supporting exploration (tag clouds, filters by industry/maturity/..)
Entrepreneurs
A space where interactions with entrepreneurs take place: possibility to post public or private messages, access to entrepreneur's bios (the entrepreneur cards to fill when you check entrepreneur as one of your roles).
Mentors
Again a space where interactions with mentors take place: same thing about communication. There should also be a way to access mentors according to their declared expertise. Access their bios (the mentors' cards).
Investors
Same thing about communication. Investors should define their investment strategy and let know what they can provide in addition to money. This should be especially important when applying a FundCamp because entrepreneurs should find in the investor pool something that will help them grow from the valuation fixed at the FundCamp to the next round where valuation has to be much higher. The ability of investors to provide knowledge, network, business experience should be a critical aspect in convincing entrepreneurs to wish being offered funding at the end of the FundCamp.
Forums
The non specific communication space where all kind of conversations concerning FundCamp can take place.
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Projects tab showing the list of projects
I have created a new project with an unpublished status and would like to see it (I can't)
Would be good if for example I click on the Projects tab and all the projects that have a published status and my project (whether they are visible or not)
Would be good as well that someone we a role of organizer can see all the projects (published and unpublished)
Frederic Baud
http://www.p2pventure.org
The funny thing about "roles" in Drupal
The thing about "Roles" in Drupal is that they are designed to give specialized permissions to certain parts of the site. "Roles" code emeged in Drupal as a way to keep access to certain content restricted to certain people, assigned the role by a site manager
Drupal has never made a provision for letting users choose their own "Role" on signup, because it doesn't make any sense within the purpose of "Roles" in Drupal. Someone tried to add this functionality here http://drupal.org/node/90983#comment-270094 but was rejected from adding to the module for the reasons I state above. The patch they submitted does not work in existing Drupal code that we have, and it would be difficult to port it to our code. Plus, and perhaps most importantly, we would have a custom set up, and others would have a tough time recreating it from existign Drupal code buildign blocks, which is somethign that I really want to avoid.
In our Drupal set up, anyone can register for any role. Yet, we only have special permissions currently for one Role (Investor). They are the only ones who may add reviews to Projects. With existing code the only way to really assign roles that way that you envision is for a site manager to manually do it for each user. Again, this is because "roles" were really meant to be permission "buckets" only, and not openly self-assignable by users.
So, a solution with existing Drupal code is to use existing modules we have installed here, which only let user register for one Role, then have the user contact site admin to be assigned other roles (like an investor that also wants to be a mentor).
Sam Rose
SocialSynergy Blog
Distinction between security roles and workflow profiles
This makes sense not to mix security based on roles (which is administered) and workflow profiles (which is user defined and indicates the way the user wants to interact with the application). Mixing the two is a shortcut and could lead to very nasty situations. With this definition mentors, investors and entrepreneurs are indeed profiles and not roles.
For the moment, I think that we only need authenticated user as a role for every one who would like to interact as a mentor, an entrepreneur and/or an investor.
Frederic Baud
http://www.p2pventure.org
Profiles
Ok, maybe I'll scrap the "Roles" registration, and instead we can put some fields, possibly checkboxes, and maybe tags in the form that users sing up with.
For instance, they could check multiple choices for each workflow profile, and they could insert tags based on their areas of expertise if they are mentor, or categories their enterprise falls under, etc.
What do you think about that?
Sam Rose
SocialSynergy Blog
user-defined profiles
Yes makes sense.
Would a module like http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/profile help?
Frederic Baud
http://www.p2pventure.org
Bio
I have set up the "Bio" module in place of the older and more limited "profile" module see: http://drupal.org/project/bio
The good thing about "Bio" is that it turns the User's profile into a "node". It allows all non-admin users to make one "bio" node.
The good thing about making the profile a node in Drupal is that it allows us to include taxonomies, CCK items, and almost anything else we want, into the "bio" node.
I have set up three example taxonomies so that I could experiment with adding them to the Bio, and making the Bio for each person navigable by these tags. Bio can also have arbitrary categories in addition to "freetagging". I also made a directory under "tags" above on the primary links, that lets you look through these tags.
I made a tag vocabulary for each working profile in the project (Entrepreneur, Mentor, Investor)
The current theme/CSS displays just the tags without the name of each vocabulary in bio, although I beleive this can be adjusted in the CSS for the Theme (or the template, will be looking into this).
Also, I am going to look into getting this bio to show up upon sign up/registration. I think if nothing else, "logintobbogan" will redirect to "add/node/bio" for a new user. So, we should be able to accomplish that.
Feedback welcome!
Sam Rose
SocialSynergy Blog
I have a bio
Just created a bio. What kind of tools can we use that would leverage the info in the bios?
Frederic Baud
http://www.p2pventure.org
All new tabs point at node list
For the moment, all the new tabs point at the list of nodes. We should create special pages that could offer the corresponding access to specific functions (Entrepreneurs, Mentors, Investors).
Frederic Baud
http://www.p2pventure.org
next steps
Will be to see if I can flesh out the pages and functions you outline above...
Sam Rose
SocialSynergy Blog