Right marginon home page needs a scrolling feature:
scroll posts by date most recent at the top

Messages and posts and events windows for messages need a spell check feature

From Ross

For posts and create events and presumably for replies there is a "save" button and a "preview" button. The "save" button doesn't save the post or reply, it actually posts it. So the button should say "post message."

Sam,

We are unable to open the read or reply to messages page. Clicking on reply to a post generates a "page not found" message.

Neither Megan nor i can see how to create a new group on the website. Next week we expect that some new groups may form and access the site. I have been to my account, to groups, to my groups -- and none of them have a create group option that we could find.

a user should be able to create a new group, from the groups page. However it is done, it would need to be easily seen and used.

Thanks for your attention to this.

Create a view at http://localfoodsystems.org/profile that shows users in alphabetical order (with no picture? <-- please answer this question) and with the size of listing reduced, to decrease scrolling.

One page that shows groups you have joined, and groups you have not joined

Add spell check on on message posting

Making a logic for listing groups (alphabetic).

Megan, can you describe the other ideas that you have about choosing groups when posting? thanks!

Connect blogsites about local food systems with LFS. Lots of independent ning, local blogging groups, google groups, etc. are forming out there, and two examples follow that are efforts of LFS subscribers and are about the same thing in the same place but different groups of people. Can LFS be a conduit that connects them easily, so that if someone (LFS subscriber, perhaps even anyone) blogs one group about a particular subject it creates a message to another group elsewhere, either within LFS or on another site, that has a common interest? Must be done carefully so that it really is making the connection logically and according to content rather than a blitz of information about everything to everyone.

examples:

1) http://www.local-matters.org/wp/

2)
date Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 1:28 AM
subject columbus food update by kareng

hi there. I'm gearing up to do some more writing for localfoodcolumbus.wordpress.com Do any of you have any subjects you would like to hear more about. I'm doing research this week on tempeh making and food processing facilities. The website is coming along. I think we're getting a lot of hits. .... I've also posted a couple questions on the localfoodsystems.org concerning food bank farms and factory chicken farms. This site goes to a lot of dept of Ag people (both gov and Ohio State Univ) for discussion in their research papers. please check both out let me know if you appreciate this info. sincerely kareng

messages used to say which group the message was addressing, and that would be helpful to have back. It would be even better if it said which groups when there are several being addressed.

Programmatic generation of visualization of project elements across time, across projects

This system will allow a web, and/or desktop ability to upload multi-media "steps" and order them in a "sequence" that will allow for documentation of virtually anything. The sequences may then be exported as embeddable "slideshow" objects, PDF objects, or self-contained flash movies that can be played in any browser

Steps consist of:

* Audio file object
* Video object
* Images that allow annotation, eg http://www.fotonotes.net/
* Inline annotatable text

The system will also export and store sequences, and modifications to sequences in a distributed revision control system. It will also output metadata about objects within the system.

This is a place holder for a plan to migrate existing http://socialsynergyweb.org/oardc site iteratively over to new systems. This plan will be disaggregated into actionable user stories after this proposal is discussed further.

The idea here is that existing mechanisms may be migrated over time to the new system, starting with those least used, such as business plan proposals, support offers, decision making systems, etc, and eventually communication itself.

New systems would be embedded into existing systems. Improvements should be part of new systems, then embedded into existing. This is marked as iteration 3, but would span all iterations.

The system can guide participants through a step by step process (eg from ideas/questions to research/analysis/due diligence, to implementation).

The basic unit is a "stage", which can be collected into a "cycle". The logic is driven by "decision making trees", decision making moves forward at least in part by collective decision making (eg Consensus Polls).

A system also will exist that guides users through the creation of stages and cycles.

users should be able to Create groups that are focused on tasks and communicate through both web based, and email-inbox-based channels to those groups

Curriculum creators want to be able to present the problems that people are trying to solve, together with the ways that people solved them. These objects (problems, and solution objects) should be categorizable, sortable, and colelctable into sequences. Should be made protable so that they can be emailed, printed out (PDF), delivered via computers, and transferable to other systems via open data formats (like XML, REST, etc)

Data from all user activity is stored in a universally accessible data base. This database can interface with existing systems (like google docs, Drupal, Media wiki sites, etc) to pull in data.