| Issue 22: | Events and groups classified by headers | |
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Under the new "Member Groups" tab we'd like to have the list of our member groups (pulled in from GroupSpaces with blurbs and links to their websites) classified according to their activities, see the bottom of this email for the list. It's felt that the current list is getting too long for people to have to search through without some sort of classification. So ideally you would go on to www.cambridgehub.org/membergroups and there would be text saying "Want to find out how you can take action on issues that matter to you? This section of the website is here to connect you to our member groups so you can get involved in charitable, ethical, campaigning and volunteering activities. Turn up to an event. Meet new people. Make a difference. If you cannot find the information you need, feel free to contact us and we'll do our best to point you in the right direction!" and on the left-hand side there would be tabs with the five sub-headings, see the bottom of this email for the list. Eventually we'd also like to have a page with groups listed according to clusters, e.g. ones that have activities to do with climate change, development, etc. but perhaps this is something we could try and work on a bit later. - Campaigning People & Planet SPEAK Stop AIDS Amnesty International CUSU Ethical Affairs Oxfam Group Student Action for Refugees - Volunteering The Café Project Cambridge Volunteers in Nepal Contact Engineers Without Borders Linkline Student Community Action Oxfam Group Student Action for Refugees Oxbridge Cultural Exchange Project TravelAid - Social Action Social Entrepreneurs Community Transition Cambridge - Fundraising RAG SSSK Oxfam Group Student Action for Refugees - Discussion, Debate and Research Environmental Consulting Society CUiD / U8 CUUNA Soc Doc Soc The Forum for Social Change The Globalist
Nov 14, 2008
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Nov 14, 2008
Use tagging?
Dec 17, 2008
http://dharmony.dwighthall.org/index.php
Dec 28, 2008
Question: Should we allow groups to be in multiple categories? It seems this would be recommendable, though we could probably get by without it if there's no alternative. Note that dharmony.dwighthall.org does allow it (and seems to work nicely). Now, member groups are all stored on GroupSpaces. So the best option would be if we can get the groups categorised on GroupSpaces itself (either directly by the group admins or by the network managers). GroupSpaces already supports categories, but currently categories are shared across all networks, and all charities get lumped together under "Charity & Voluntary" (which obviously doesn't distinguish things much on Hub networks). So we'd need to see if they can enable different categories for some networks (presumably a group in multiple networks would be able to choose a category in each of them where they differ); or alternatively some other way of tagging. This should make charities usefully grouped on GroupSpaces itself, and then we'd be able to replicate the structure on Hub sites by reading the categories in the group RSS feeds we import from GroupSpaces. Andy, what do you think? Alternatively if we can't do it via GroupSpaces it should be possible to apply categories to the nodes on our site using Taxonomy, and use that to group them, though we'd need to be careful this didn't get reset whenever we re-imported the nodes from GroupSpaces. (Do we already have a bug about changes to auto-imported nodes getting silently lost when nodes get re-imported from GroupSpaces? I couldn't find one, but I remember Cosanna losing edits she'd made this way...)
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apexauk
Dec 28, 2008
We already have a plan to allow custom group categories for each network - so your Hub groups wouldn't all be under "Charity" which hardly helps. Allowing groups to be in multiple categories shouldn't be too much of an issue, although it would require some work at our end. If you need this quickly look at using your Taxonomy module, longer term we'll support this.
Jan 21, 2009
To answer John's question, it would be best if groups could be in multiple categories so they can self-associate. Is taxonomy something I could work with if you give me a quick intro...like where to find it :)
Mar 23, 2009
Okay let's go ahead and do this on our side using taxonomy. I need someone to go through the member groups and designate which categories they fall into, then I'll go ahead and create the menu system to allow people to navigate using categories. Cosanna here's how to do that: First set up the categories. I've added the ones listed above but if you want to add more then: 1 Administer -> Categories 2. Click "list terms" next to "Society categories" 3. Add categories with the "Add term" button at the top Now configure which societies are attached to which categories: 1. Administer -> Content Management -> Content 2. Select the radio button next to "type" and in the dropdown box next to it select "Charity". Hit filter. If nothing comes up then hit "reset" and try again. 3. To assign a society to a category click the edit button for the society and select the relevant categories in the list at the top of the page. You can select more than one by holding control (sorry if I'm saying obvious things!)
Apr 1, 2009
Hmmm perhaps we can do this better. The GroupSpaces feed api let's us query particular group categories like this: http://oxfordhub.groupspaces.com/api/groups/-/charity-voluntary http://oxfordhub.groupspaces.com/api/groups/-/international-culture We should be able to set up separate feeds for each group category in Drupal and the FeedAPI should be able to automatically assign taxonomy labels as appropriate.
May 27, 2009
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Events and groups classified by headers
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Sep 18, 2009
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Sep 25, 2009
Give Andy a list of groups and corresponding categories and he will set the group memberships, then implement feed approach as above. |