Issue 22: Events and groups classified by headers
Project Member Reported by adam.obo...@googlemail.com, Nov 14, 2008
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
Project Member #1 aasgrode...@googlemail.com
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Nov 14, 2008
Project Member #2 aasgrode...@googlemail.com
Use tagging?
Dec 28, 2008
Project Member #4 mel...@gmail.com
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...)
Cc: apexauk
Dec 28, 2008
Project Member #5 apex...@gmail.com
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
Project Member #6 cosanna....@gmail.com
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
Project Member #7 alex.fl...@gmail.com
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
Project Member #8 alex.fl...@gmail.com
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
Project Member #9 alex.fl...@gmail.com
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Sep 18, 2009
Project Member #10 adam.obo...@googlemail.com
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Sep 25, 2009
Project Member #11 alex.fl...@gmail.com
Give Andy a list of groups and corresponding categories and he will set the group 
memberships, then implement feed approach as above.