On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I don't know that voting and having a full blown ideastorm like site is >> that great. I think it lends into having a lot of people expect that >> ideas that are "voted" the highest will automagically be worked on, >> when it's not really the case. > > > Only if you expose the vote totals for viewing directly. > > You can use idea voting in another way...you can encourage people to > vote on ideas and then systematically sort the collection of ideas and > voting records to come up with clumps of ideas and corresponding > clumps of people who support a common theme and encourage them to work > together towards their common aims. Instead of simply voting and > expecting others to work on it the idea voting process becomes a way > to map out groups of people who can work together towards a shared > interest. The board can look over the identified clumps, identity the > ones that are generally inline with overall project goals and work to > get the clumps of people working together as a self-supporting group. > > Its like how online dating sites work. Answer questions (creating a > voting record) and use that to find a similarity metric. Except we can > do it to find proto-working groups in a way that hopefully > self-selects against poisonous personalities. > > In this sort of scheme, general popularity of a single idea isn't the > metric. Its the similarity of multiple ideas and how people prioritize > ideas. > > We could go further along the onling dating system analogy and if we > could collect skills information we could even try to figure out which > proto-team not only has critical mass of interested participants but > also skillset coverage. If the submissions were called something other than "ideas" or "suggestions" we could avoid creating the impression that they'll just magically happen. "Proposal" seems a bit awkward but is probably closer to what people prefer across the project. It'd be helpful to include a simple checkbox along with each submission: "[ ] I am willing and able to spend a few hours a week working on this proposal." Tagging would provide a means to sort the proposals into clusters, possibly. Paul _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
