Open-source Society Project

This is the home page for the Open-source Society project.

Project Links

• ThinkTank Meetings
• Taxi App Home page
• Zoom meeting link (passcode was provided individually)
• Sub-reddit (forum)
• Initial Project Overview (Google powerpoint)

Software Requirements (additional)

These are the ideas that we are coming up with as we work through our weekly meetings:

• Home pages of Units should be customizable e.g. re-order and collapse components as needed
• Social media share function (twitter, facebook)
• Show related and Linked objects (for all objects)
• Importance level -> change to 'Priority'
• All posts (Issues, Objectives, Tasks) should have a box for OP's comments, as well as the wiki entry which can be edited by all. The wiki part can be called 'Issue Wiki' etc
• Issue editing:
  • Issue default sort: by Priority
  • 'Issue Wiki' (for describing the issue) and 'Resolution wiki' (for working towards a solution). 'Tasks Wiki'- duplicate object shown separately in the Tasks table
  • Issue can be 'Mark as Verified' by a minimum of 3 people (or one third of the total active users for last month etc, round up to 1 at least)
  • Issue then becomes locked
  • Editing the locked issue requires 50 activity points and System will give a warning: "Warning, this issue has been marked as Verified. Editing it will unverify the issue and re-start the verification process. Are you sure you want to edit it?"
  • Issue then becomes unverified and can be edited
  • Rate issue importance: Low, Medium (default), High: Weighted average (need to create method of calculator for 1 to 10 for importance): 1, 5, 10 for low, medium, high
• Sort issues by type (if people are interested in issues of a certain type). Possibly let people create custom views in which they can customize their dashboard and only see what they want to see
• Meeting functionality
• Global action rate limit depending on activity points

For later development / lower priority

These can be implemented if these problems are encountered.

• Reporting functions:
  • Report this (for: spam, conflict of interest, misleading data and science, other terms of abuse)
  • If an Issue is reported, a mediation group can analyze the report and reject the issue or archive it etc (reporting requires some points)
• Request responses/feedback/answers for objects that haven't gotten a response (or system highlights 'high priority' objects that havent gotten a response etc)
• Rewards have an expiration (as observed in StackExchange) to provide motivation for people to respond (e.g. bonus rewards have a timer on them). Search on this for more info.
• Gantt Charts (some open-source solutions available here)
• Specific chat and meeting organization for objects (issues, tasks etc)

To-do

• Make block diagrams /flowcharts for various processes in our project (Issue reporting, resolution, Task creation to completion, Objectives management)

Suggestions but these features already exist

• Treasury View (already exists)
  • Log of debits/credits (already exists)
• File attachments for objects

Links

• Fields for issues: https://support.backlog.com/hc/en-us/categories/115002395547-Issues
• Example of sub-tasking (tasks divided up into smaller tasks): https://support.backlog.com/hc/en-us/articles/115015386347-Subtasking
  • Another example of sub-tasking: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/create-an-issue-and-a-sub-task/

Older Material

Selection Process

• Slides (move from there?) - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tPpuYZktzO8ioIx-ub1RHaSeQqGFonCNYupeNx1_bbw/edit#slide=id.p
• Calendly Link
• Apply

Recruitment

The goal is to find students with the appropriate backgrounds. Our methods can include:

1. Contacting teachers teaching these programs to see if they can put us in touch with their students. The programs can include:

• community development
• problem-solving (any students who have studied one or more courses for this)
• hire college students directly who have studied these kinds of courses

Sample searches:

• degree community development site:.edu
• certificate community development site:.edu
• program community development site:.edu
• certificate problem solving site:.edu

2. Finding people on forums about problem solving or community development e.g.:

• problem solving forums
  • AoPS Community - Art of Problem Solving
  • General Youth forums

3. Searching for student hiring/internship websites where an ad could be posted

4. Searching for groups of students on social media (facebook)

5. We can also search directly for resumes mentioning the above

Approach/Selection

• Informational slides (to send to teachers)
• Initial questionnaire