I would like a bit more time and conversation to consider. While UCOE has disabled the carousel (easy to do), rSmart does run it in production in our public implementation, where I think it serves as a somewhat effective introduction into an unfamiliar experience.
While the carousel may not be serving needs well, it's basic goal is highly important to an underlying goal of OAE: to help people make NEW connections to content, people, and experiences, rather than just using the platform as a way to take care of existing business. So before we rush the carousel out the door, can we talk about how we will support it's underlying goal more effectively? Most platforms that support building NEW relationships with content, people, experiences, and goods have fairly prominent suggestion engines: Twitter, FB, G+, LinkedIn, Amazon, Flickr, eBay, etc = nate On Jun 28, 2012, at 8:42 AM, Clay Fenlason <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 for shelving it, but I would prefer to see it placed in the widget > library rather than simply disappearing. Some widget developer in > future may pick it up and do something more inspiring with it. > > ~Clay > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Anthony Whyte <[email protected]> wrote: >> +1 for removal. We could disable it by default as a deprecation step but >> given the reasons for removal outlined by Nico below we should take it out >> now. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anth >> >> >> On Jun 28, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Bert Pareyn wrote: >> >> >> +1. >> It's not hard to remove from the config but if the institutions don't like >> it we might as well get it out of there in 1.4.0. >> >> - Bert >> >> On 28 Jun 2012, at 15:30, Nicolaas Matthijs wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> There's been many reports of institutions not liking the carrousel >> widget and people requesting to disable it. Given that the carrousel >> widget as we know it will be disappearing anyway in 1.5, would it be >> acceptable to remove the widget as of 1.4? There are a few widgets >> specific to the carrousel that could then be removed which will speed >> up QA, and eliminating the requests on the landing page will be >> helpful for performance as well. >> >> If there are any -1s, we should probably keep it in 1.4. >> >> Thanks, >> Nicolaas >> _______________________________________________ >> oae-urg mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/oae-urg >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> oae-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/oae-dev >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> oae-urg mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/oae-urg >> > _______________________________________________ > oae-urg mailing list > [email protected] > http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/oae-urg _______________________________________________ oae-dev mailing list [email protected] http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/oae-dev
