It is helpful to know these goals in order to suggest improvements. With respect to data gathering to assess the quality of participation, I suggest just gathering simple data at registration time, plus a retrospective data gathering exercise of the top N reviewers at the end of the study. To build community, may I suggest the "business card" metaphor; a minimal amount of information, but enough to roughly position a contact in terms of professional qualifications and to provide a basis for identification and follow-up research, if need be. For example, here's my business card info: Robert D. Cameron, Ph.D. Professor, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University President, International Characters, Inc. http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~cameron/ So, for education, simply ask for the highest academic credential. "Please choose your highest academic credential from the drop down list or enter in the text box." For those who self-identify, I suspect that more than 75% would list their highest credential. On the other hand, if you ask for a list of credentials giving year, institution and field of study, I suspect you may have less than 25% of reviewers providing this info. As for "publications, grants, awards, memberships", I would be surprised to see even 5% of reviewers providing this data. On April 10, 2007 06:06 pm, Beth Noveck wrote: > Thanks for this helpful feedback. It definitely doesn't look "right" > yet. Work in progress. I appreciate the suggestion of more > programmer-centric lingo. > > We could just go with an open-ended approach of letting people tag > themselves with whatever info they choose. But we want to build > community through more information about who's participating and > gather data to prove the point that open participation can work and > can attract expertise. > > Since this is a site about generating, not just any information but > the right information, and identifying specialists on very narrow > topics, it's important to get people to self-identify clearly. Hence > we want to encourage without forcing people to tell about themselves, > if they wish. > > Also - I anticipate that some people want to participate here in > order to get noticed and get hired by the inventors. Hence they may > want to "brag." > > Will keep working on this. Suggestions always welcome. > > Beth > > On Apr 9, 2007, at 5:36 PM, Luis Villa wrote: > > On 4/7/07, Rob Cameron <cameron@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I think it is too simplistic to have a single "professional role". > >> People may have different roles with different affiliations. > >> > >> I think the personal profile is asking for too much information, > >> and the wrong kind. It looks like academic CV style information. > >> In particular, the "publications, grants, awards, memberships" > >> info is overboard. > >> > >> Open source developers won't be welcomed by the focus > >> on things like grants and awards; they will want to be recognized > >> for their open source projects and their roles within those projects. > >> Isn't there a goal to encourage participation by open source > >> developers? > > > > Second all this. > > > > I might also suggest replacing 'Professional Role' with something like > > 'Relevant Expertise', which might be information about a relevant > > profession, but might be about other non-professional expertise. > > > > More generally, this is a lot of information- my eyes glazed over > > about half-way through. Unless you've got a particular plan to utilize > > all this information in a way which requires it to be structured, I'd > > recommend asking for no more than a biography paragraph- 'this is who > > I am; this is why I have relevant skills'. (You may have such a plan > > in which case I retract these comments until I hear what the plan is > > ;) > > > > Luis (Beth, I'll try to write in the other thread tomorrow.) > > _______________________________________________ > > p2patent-developer mailing list > > p2patent-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/p2patent-developer -- Robert D. Cameron, Ph.D. Professor of Computing Science Simon Fraser University _______________________________________________ p2patent-developer mailing list p2patent-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/p2patent-developer
