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

[Bill F]

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.
>

>>Excellent point. I should have thought of that before.

>
> > B. Should the name of the member be included in the message?
>
>     Yes. That's much more likely to get a response.
>

>> Since they're logged in, I'll add it. I can use the template to fill in
the username of the person sending the message in the text.


>
> > C. Where should we put the button or label to send the invitation?
>
>     Maybe on the how to join page.


>>Good place for now.


>
> > 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.)
>

>>The email address is unique. I'll use it for now. If they join with a
different email address, we lose. No big deal.

>>We can also do the same thing that gets done via the email confirm: we put
a token in that they can click on to register.
When they click on it, we preload the email address and get the context that
allows us to send the thank you message to the inviter.
I've re-used the MediaWiki code to do this before.

>
> > E. Should we allow the person submitting the invitation to add an
> additional
> > comment?
>
>     Can't think of why not.
>

>>Done.


> > 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''m adding support for 5 addresses. Copy and past.


>
> > G. Should we offer to cc: the message sent out to the person sending the
> > invitation?
>
>     Sure why not.
>

>>OK.


>
> > 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.
>

>> Database table is now present for invites.

>
>     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.
>

>> We need to talk about this. Sounds like a great idea.


>
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