[OWW-Discuss] Invite someone to join OpenWetWare...

[Jason Kelly]

> F. Should we allow for sending invitations to more than one person? We can
> do a whole lab if we want; I'm current;y taking in just one name.

>   They probably can just send it to a mailing list.

I think it would be nice to list multiple addresses in case you want
to invite a few of your friends.  Also, not sure why they need to put
in the name of the invitee, email address should be enough.

cool, this is a great addition for outreach / recruitment.

thanks,
jason

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Austin Che <austin at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>  > 3. The person who invited the user currently isn't being sent. I think this
>  > may be important; I've added support for it but I have a few questions.
>  >
>  > A. Should people need to be logged in to send the message?
>
>     Definitely. Avoid being a spam relay.
>
>
>  > B. Should the name of the member be included in the message?
>
>     Yes. That's much more likely to get a response.
>
>
>  > C. Where should we put the button or label to send the invitation?
>
>     Maybe on the how to join page.
>
>
>  > D. Should we record the invite and then send a message to the person who
>  > submitted the invitation when the invitee registers?
>
>     That might be difficult to tell unless you have some unique cookie
>     or something for them to accept the invitation. It would be easier
>     to do the reverse and have a field on registration that has the
>     inviter's user name. Even better, it should be possible to
>     generate a link that when clicked, pre-fills out the registration
>     form with various items (such as inviter's name, maybe the lab, etc.)
>
>
>  > E. Should we allow the person submitting the invitation to add an additional
>  > comment?
>
>     Can't think of why not.
>
>
>  > F. Should we allow for sending invitations to more than one person? We can
>  > do a whole lab if we want; I'm current;y taking in just one name.
>
>     They probably can just send it to a mailing list.
>
>
>  > G. Should we offer to cc: the message sent out to the person sending the
>  > invitation?
>
>     Sure why not.
>
>
>  > Recording the invitation isn't a lot more effort to implement and would make
>  > for a way to let users know we appreciate their efforts. It also gives us
>  > quantitative info on who's being invited and how often the inviation is
>  > acted upon.
>
>     Might as well record it if possible.
>
>     I think we need to implement a karma system. 'Worthless' numbers
>     indicating the value of a member is surprisingly good at
>     motivating people to do things in communities. We can do something
>     like the weighted sum of:
>     - number of invited people
>     - total number of edits
>     - number of articles created
>     - number of emails sent to discuss mailing list
>     - etc.
>
>  --
>  Austin Che           <austin at csail.mit.edu>          (617)253-5899
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