Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Idea about Ideas

Grouping ideas and possibly allowing duplicated ideas to sort themselves out 
sounds good.  i like the idea of an "aged" score in an automated way either;

1. Something like accountants might use for "aged debtors", something like the 
sum of votes older than 2 years gets reduced by 75%, the total  over 1.5 years 
(but less than 2) reduced by 50% and the total over 1 year (but less than 1.5) 
getting reduced by 25% or

2.  Perhaps by simply dividing the number of votes by the length of time.

I prefer the first method because it allows old, unpopular ideas to get quietly 
dropped without anyone's intervention while allowing ideas a fair time to build 
momentum.  It is easier to tweak and develop some finesse with it too.

Incidentally, Drupal looks good.  It is completely contrary to the way it was 
described to me (not a huge surprise there).  I still haven't been able to play 
around with it and have only just got used to joomla so i would still find it 
difficult to compare the 2 myself.  I still tend to write in html in gedit and 
copy&paste into article pages or templates and let joomla sort out the fancy 
stuff.  I'm fairly certain this is not the perfect way but it's better for me 
than using the wysiwyg gui.  Please post comments about this paragraph to me 
off-list if required.  Many thanks to those people that did respond to my first 
questions about this.

Regards from
Tom :)




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From: Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Tue, 21 December, 2010 22:14:11
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Idea about Ideas

Le 2010-12-21 10:36, Tom Davies a écrit :

> I have been wondering if these ideas could be "sorted" by newest well as
> top 10 for each month.
> This was stated before, but there needs to be more options to the
> sorting process.
>
> The voting idea is fine, but as stated earlier, there needs to be some
> weight to the problem of
> the oldest ideas getting more votes due to the time on the "forum".
>
> One of my user groups for a community based network computing system
> changed forum
> scripts.  When they did that, they took a look at the categories of the
> threads and made the
> new forum to be divided into groups based on the thread subjects.  Is
> there a possibility to
> have the discussion system allow for an administrator to look at the
> ideas and group them
> based upon some subject?  Group Writer, Calc, etc., ideas in different
> sections.  Group the
> look and "feel" of the software in another section.  With each section,
> you have sub-groupings.
> Then have some type of sorting so you can view the new ideas for each
> group, or major group,
> along with "user rating" and such that were discussed before.
>
> If you really want to have a discussion web page system, you must do it
> right from the beginning.
> There are a lot of forum and discussion site scripts out there.  Find
> one that does what you want
> and need, then find the lowest costing web hosting system that supports
> that scripting.
>
> My hosting account supports the following.
>
> Content Management
>      anyInventory, Drupal, Joomla!®,  Mambo, MODx
>      Moodle, Nucleus, PostNuke, SilverStripe, Xoops
>
>
> Forums
>      phpBB
>      SMF (Simple Machines Forum)
>      Vanilla Forum
>
> Project Management
>
>      Brim, dotProject, Mantis, phpCollab, PHProjekt
>
>
> Social Networking
>       Elgg
>
> Tools/Scripts
>      jQuery
>      Script.aculo.us
>
> plus many other options such as many languages supported.

For those of you who are interested, here are the different areas that 
the Drupal site has in the works as well as the "Ideas" system. If you 
are adept at Drupal or for that matter quite passionate about this 
particular area feel free to volunteer to help and insert your name. You 
will find it here: 
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Website/Drupal_Strategy

Cheers

Marc
Drupal Web Dev Team Membmer


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