I'd like to see a real profile field (instead of what we're doing now, just putting it in a field) for twitter username and then allow me to easily follow all the tweeters in a group where I'm a member. @topperge was telling me about his idea for this which involved a whole separate website just for that. There still may be need for that (after all, not everyone I know is on Mix or associated with Oracle--I know), but seems like an interesting potential application for groups.
The other stuff about messaging to a group could be a useful way for me to replace the RAC SIG notification emails I send a couple of times a month and just have Mix do that for me instead :). Similar groups may find that to be more effective (and easier to maintain--no listserv or other stuff needed) than current solutions. I know I would and it'd allow RAC SIG members to use other features of the site as well. I'm sure that many if not most of the RAC SIG members aren't even using Mix currently.
Jake
· 1 year ago
So you want a Twitter ID field on the profile, surfaced in group members? Trying to think how that would work, since most people won't have one. Would make for a lot of whitespace, but OK.
I think sending mail from groups may be a no-fly for us with GIS, which I think has pretty strict spam controls on Oracle-owned mail servers. Wouldn't digests meet this though? Since we're investigating digests though, it would be possible if you triggered the mail by posting something.
Dan Norris
· 1 year ago
You're probably right--I guess it seems like there quite a few tweeters, but I suppose there probably aren't a significant percentage of mix members. At least not yet.
As for mail, yes, I suppose that might work, but in thinking about it more, there's a possibility that people won't like the hassle of being forced to register for Mix (even though it's great) since we'd still want their profile on the oracleracsig.org site (since we gather RAC-specific info from them during registration). So, maybe it wouldn't work for my case, but digests do sound interesting in general.
Jake
· 1 year ago
Unfortunately, registration is a must have. It's hard to run a social network if you're not enforcing some ways to ensure that people are 1) people and not bots and 2) who they claim to be.
This may be an area for an OpenSocial app, to port profiles from an existing system. We can do data portability among our sites more easily due to implicit trust. Assuming you trust us :)
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The other stuff about messaging to a group could be a useful way for me to replace the RAC SIG notification emails I send a couple of times a month and just have Mix do that for me instead :). Similar groups may find that to be more effective (and easier to maintain--no listserv or other stuff needed) than current solutions. I know I would and it'd allow RAC SIG members to use other features of the site as well. I'm sure that many if not most of the RAC SIG members aren't even using Mix currently.
I think sending mail from groups may be a no-fly for us with GIS, which I think has pretty strict spam controls on Oracle-owned mail servers. Wouldn't digests meet this though? Since we're investigating digests though, it would be possible if you triggered the mail by posting something.
but I suppose there probably aren't a significant percentage of mix
members. At least not yet.
As for mail, yes, I suppose that might work, but in thinking about it
more, there's a possibility that people won't like the hassle of being
forced to register for Mix (even though it's great) since we'd still
want their profile on the oracleracsig.org site (since we gather
RAC-specific info from them during registration). So, maybe it wouldn't
work for my case, but digests do sound interesting in general.
This may be an area for an OpenSocial app, to port profiles from an existing system. We can do data portability among our sites more easily due to implicit trust. Assuming you trust us :)