Adrian and Abie have been talking about and working on a Group Directory

Here are some notes:

Why would I look at the group directory?¶

• I want to find a specific group
  • Maybe I don’t remember the name exactly

• I want to join a group but i dont know which one
  • Is the group open to membership requests.
  • What is the group
  • Where
  • What issue

• I want to learn about the existence of a group of some sort
  • Geographic View/Search: I want to find a group near me
  • Issue based View/Search: I want to locate group working on an issue that I’m interested in
  • I want to find a group near me thats working on a similar issue to mine.
  • I want to find groups that are willing to work in a confederated network :)

• I want to see statistics on how groups are doing
  • when was there last activity in the group
  • what are the most active public groups generally and by location
  • Are things going really well with a group? – how is this measured?
  • Are things going really badly? – how is this measured?

• I want to see if crabgrass is doing well, or if “the movement” is doing well (on crabgrass)
  • New public pages could be interesting for answering many of these questions

Notes from Feb Dev meeting¶

we.riseup.net/cgdev/directories-convers...