"@admin That “ATARI BASIC PROGRAMMING” avatar is probably an optimal strategy for the avatar selection game." · View
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IMD Admin posted an update in the group Website Dev: 1 year, 1 month ago · View
@sfisher yes it is possible, and easy to set up. This does bring up one question, though: now that we can have all these nice sorted projects pages, why do we need to lock down who can post projects? Many students would like to be able to post their stuff on the site — see the Universal Happymaker group for one example. It’s something to think about, and I know there’s a tension between using this space for marketing vs. using it as a community space, but my sense is that most students wouldn’t post anything but interesting share-worthy work anyway.
cc: @josborn
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Michael Annetta posted a new activity comment: 1 year, 2 months ago · View
You and your logic @josborn!! [shaky fist!]
In reply to - Michael Annetta posted an update in the group 511 Seminar: @tdiefenbach I’m using my ability to spell (first initial, last name) Admittedly, yours is tougher than most.
I’m pretty sure that the FILastName set up is common across all the people here. @admin is the exception to that rule, I believe. ·
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IMD Admin posted an update in the group Website Dev: 1 year, 2 months ago · View
@josborn addressed the email ”respond to” issue by enabling the reply to functionality in the activity streams. i think this is probably a good feature, but would appreciate yr thoughts. now doing the css tweaks to make better use of backchannel space…
I think this is nice, and it might also help with the vertical space stuff — a lot of the confusion when the space gets blown is keeping track of multiple threaded conversations, and this may help.
Not sure if it’s possible to ”bump” replied-to messages to the top but I will look into it. The little dedicated pages for a particular thread are also neat too.
Already I feel this is a great improvement. Thanks, Jeff!
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Jeff Watson posted an update in the group Website Dev: 1 year, 2 months ago · View
@josborn — ”raging against php” — that pretty much sums up how I write code for Wordpress, too!
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Jeff Watson posted an update in the group Website Dev: 1 year, 2 months ago · View
@josborn a private group is join-requestable, and its activity is only visible to members of that private group… down the road, we could write a plugin to do ”pure Backchannel”. I think a meeting of PHP / Wordpress ninjas might be in order to coordinate stuff like that!
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Jeff Watson posted an update in the group Website Dev: 1 year, 2 months ago · View
@josborn you can create a ”Hidden Group” that will do that (ie, won’t post updates to the main backchannel; will only be visible to members of the hidden group)…
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Michael Annetta posted an update: 1 year, 2 months ago · View
and I made you an admin in Always On Help Desk @josborn
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Michael Annetta posted an update: 1 year, 2 months ago · View
@josborn I was getting there! Finished now.
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IMD Admin posted an update in the group Website Dev: 1 year, 2 months ago · View
@josborn — and everyone — can you add the hashtag #bugreport to any glitches you find (like the email thing you just mentioned)? this will help us to sort thru over time.
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IMD Admin posted an update in the group Website Dev: 1 year, 2 months ago · View
@josborn cool cool – yes would love to hear how you do it. We now have a 50mb upload limit via standard wp posting, but if there’s a better way that isn’t too difficult to implement (ie doesn’t require breaking the custom post types schema we’re using right now, etc) then let’s go for it. JW
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Michael Annetta posted an update: 1 year, 2 months ago · View
@admin I agree with @josborn about moving ”Projects” to the top-level and I think your take on shrinking the size of the IMD title text is probably the best course of action (or perhaps shrinking the left margin a bit to make room). I know you want to keep the UI clean, but (despite being in an academic setting) my mind separates ”Projects” and ”Research” as two distinct areas. Also, and I’m sure you’re already on this, but will you be adding the other labs (e.g., MEML) under ”Research”?
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Jeff Watson posted an update in the group Website Dev: 1 year, 2 months ago · View
@josborn also: you might want to consider starting a UHM Group – you can associate rss feeds with Groups which means any new UHM posts will automatically appear in the Backchannel stream. I hope — I actually haven’t tested that yet. ;-/
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IMD Admin posted an update in the group Website Dev: 1 year, 2 months ago · View
@josborn Totally agree with you on both points. Am at the benighted Denver International Airport right now where connectivity is at approximately 1999 levels. Am writing this on my phone. Issue with Projects link is that I’ve literally run out of room in the header menu – ideas for reorganization? Shrink the IMD title text? As for opening Projects submissions to all: I’m meeting with Faculty tomorrow and will entreat them to do so; esp. now that projects can be sorted there seems to be no reason to lock them down e.g. Game Innov Lab can hav their curated projects page while students can add to main categories. Thanks for engaging so quickly with this!
Posting projects is absolutely fine as long as they’re not all lumped together in one indistinguishable pile. And it’s not about ’marketing’ issues – it’s a matter of clearly articulating and representing the research that SCA does in the broader context of an R1 research university. So, would be ideal to have clear categories for sponsored research, thesis projects, and another for student projects or others that lie outside those two. Also would be helpful to have the game/immersive/mobile/etc. categories to sort as well – possible to do that without it becoming way too complicated?
The way we have it set up now, the main ”Projects” page aggregates all #projects in the system. The individual projects pages (e.g. ”Games” ”Mobile”) display only the projects that have been placed in those categories. Projects can be placed in multiple categories. So we could have a project that is categorized both ”Games” and ”Sponsored Research”, for example, and it would appear in both of those archives. We could also have another taxonomy in there so that we could enable users to look at all, say, Games that are Sponsored Research, or all Mobile projects that are Thesis Projects. This would probably be the way to go if we were to open things up: it would allow granular control over where projects appear, and we could make the top-level taxonomy be something only admins can set — ie, all student projects would by default be ”Student Projects”; to have them categorized as something like a ”Sponsored Project” or even ”Thesis Project” would require a supervisor, but students could still place their new projects into categories like ”Games” or ”Mobile” or whatever.