Hi Karl, Thank you very much for your response ! Comments interspersed.
Yves > Similarly, our civil society portal is structured with folders for key > domains while individual NGO affiliates have separate but equal > subfolders. Interesting. > You may be interested in some of the work that Jennifer Golbeck Indeed. Re: "At this stage, I'm asking for urls of sites that tackle similar environmental issues that involve a large variety of stakeholders from government department officials though to county/city officials and citizens." > Kindly take a look at https://waterportal.sandia.gov. Our use case isn't > the same as yours because regulations require us to more tightly control > users with upload privileges. Some of our use cases will be of that type. > On the other hand, our civil society portal at http://wacsi.unm.edu is > hosted at a nearby university so as to relax some of the constraints on > content owners. We have disabled Plone's default 'join' option on both > portals. In either case we would have to enable anonymous input via > changes in workflow to allow contributions by citizens in the community at > large. I disable join on such sites too. We'll probably rely on trusted users to begin with. That is, we'll invite people to register to the site and only those registered users will be able to upload content. Maybe we'll open up commenting to the general public, but the way I believe we should approach the problem of convening the largest possible audience without risking having too much noise in the data/monitoring is to invite people. I may be wrong though. Or maybe let people that have an OpenID account log in to our site. Not sure yet. > We are currently working on an assessment tool that is directed at the > nuclear energy community (regulators, advocates, academics, and critics). > We will be using PloneSurvey and its ability to allow anonymous users to > take the survey. I've user PloneSurveu in a couple of intranet projects here and I like it, except for some UnicodeDecode errors [our users are part of the 5 M French speaking community of NE America ;-)]. I gather the people at Leicester aren't in a rush to port PloneSurvey to Plone 3 and I definitely will deploy (if the project goes forward) a Plone 3 for my project. > That site is still under development, but I can see a few commonalities, > especially if the survey asked cyanobacteria-monitoring questions, > assessed user background and skill, and collected geo-coordinates for > data. That's indeed a very interesting way of collecting user data. Collecting geographic coordinates would likely need a helper environment (like opening up a map portlet that the person could use to pinpoint the location they are talking about). One geodata is in the ZODB, we can use the GIS python software stack to display/query/edit/chart it. Thank you again ! Yves _______________________________________________ NGO mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/ngo
