On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Paul Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I already have a toy algorithm for similarity analysis. The Ubuntu Brainstorm people gave me a dump of their anonymous voting record with which to test a while back. I could only take it so far because its anonymous. I did see clumps, but I couldn't actually identify a group of people to talk to. And the way they construct polling doesn't encourage people to build up a broad voting record so their data was very sparse. Instead of thousands and thousands of questions which only get a few votes each on average. What I need is a system that encourages people to express their interest consistently across many tens of questions. It doesn't have to be all questions, and it doesn't have to be a simple yes/no..range works. Enough people answer enough of the same questions in a way that expresses like or dislike. The direct "i'll work on this tagging" isn't strictly needed. Whether that sort of check box is there is not important to the broader similarity analysis. The clumps of people (and ideas) fall out of the voting records. As long as many of our contributors..both potential and active are building up a record of interest across the question space...we get a dense enough data set to do a similarity analysis and find the clumps fall out of that. I would actually require people who used such a system to affirm a desire to actively participate in some part of the project and to state what they think they can contribute in terms of time on a weekly basis on average working on "something". The goal for me would be to use the voting record to identify good fits between groups of people and projects (both existing and new). When on review a strong clump is a set of new ideas and primarily new people, the Board may feel compelled to step in and guide that group into standing up as a new project team. People who already have a strong idea of what they prefer to work on are going to gravitate towards that on their own regardless. The similarity stuff asks to get a broad view of likes and dislikes to help point people who are interested generally into the direction likely to be a positive experience for them, and the others in the team. -jef _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
