Jivespace: Message List - Will Clearspace X evolve to be more like Facebook?

Re: Will Clearspace X evolve to be more like Facebook?

communities@jivesoftware.com — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:35:25 GMT

I as well would like to see this level of granularity, even for Spaces/Communities. Being able to make the Community visible, and requesting to be added would be great for many internal and external use-cases. Fishing for participants is always a big element from our perspective....awareness is expensive...self-discovery is ideal in every respect. =)

Re: Will Clearspace X evolve to be more like Facebook?

communities@jivesoftware.com — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:52:35 GMT

We will be using Clearspace x as for external facing collaborative ad hoc projects so we

are looking to make it as self sufficient as possible.

We use IBM Quickr 8.0 internally and that’s a very much set it up and let the users run

with it. You can give a user permission over a space / site and they manage it

themselves.

We are hoping to do that with CSX if we can get the permissions sorted out.

We are looking at the way people join or are invited to projects as well. Ideally a

user set up a project say to design a new water pump…. So he does a search for

engineers etc in that field and invites them in. so a team can be put together

by searching peoples profiles for experience / skills.

Re: Will Clearspace X evolve to be more like Facebook?

communities@jivesoftware.com — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:20:09 GMT

I would love to have projects that functioned like this! Projects that are contained within a department are fine that everyone in the space can see them. It so nice and easy to segment departments into spaces based on the pre established groupings in active directory and everything is happy until the topic of cross-department projects AHHH!!!! The permissions model jut becomes too big of a nightmare to think about controlling the show fom the admin slot. I've thought about just making all projects open, you know the whole kumbaya the mre minds the better theory, but for certain projects (and users) this just isn't appropriate. User controlled permissions to the project would be ideal. What I'd really like to be able to do is make a space where any of my users can go in and make a project and have that project be locked down to just them. Then give them a way to invite people to collaborate on that project which gives those people access.

Re: Will Clearspace X evolve to be more like Facebook?

communities@jivesoftware.com — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:30:26 GMT

Hi AJ,

We have had our eye on the projects feature for awhile now. A great addition to this would be granulated permissions so you could define users more.

We were hoping for Three levels of Projetcs:

Public (as it is already, everyone has access to the project)

Semi-Private (would have a Public and private side) (documents, discussions,

blogs etc can only be seen by people who have joined the project (throught a

signup form and authorised by the owner), the project has a public blog and can

release public documents, project can be found through a search and is listed

with other projects)

Private (only people who are specifically invited can join, project does not

show up in searches and is not listed - these projects can release their

findings afterwards if required)

How we would like to permission Projects: Each Project would have an owner. This Owner would be able to add and remove people to his project. He would be able to assign permissions to members of his project like reader, editor, publisher etc, ideally like the permissions you can do with Vanilla: http://getvanilla.com/ (its open source!!) So you could create rolls and add levels of permissions.

Any file, discussion, announcement, etc created in a Project stays within that project. Project Owners can move files, content etc.

I'll stop there!!....

Re: Will Clearspace X evolve to be more like Facebook?

aaron@jivesoftware.com — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:35:09 GMT

Forgive me for being critical but you guys need a tech pubs writer as a gate keeper

We've got one, his name is Steve (seriously)

I'm pretty sure that when 2.0 comes out we're revving our website at / around the same time, so the website should have some good stuff on what 'projects' are as well. Thanks for the feedback!

Cheers,

Re: Will Clearspace X evolve to be more like Facebook?

communities@jivesoftware.com — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:46:27 GMT

Thanks, AJ, I checked this out http://www.jivesoftware.com/builds/docs/clearspace/beta/ClearspaceHelp.html#ManagingProjectsSection2

It wasn't easy to find, i.e. until you pointed me at it. Could search / leaders be better ? Often when I go to the "beta" page I just get pointed at "normal" forums/documentation.

Cheers mate!

Steve

Re: Will Clearspace X evolve to be more like Facebook?

communities@jivesoftware.com — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:19:04 GMT

Hey AJ, erm, well I'm looking for "what is projects"?

Forgive me for being critical but you guys need a tech pubs writer as a gate keeper

Steve

Re: Will Clearspace X evolve to be more like Facebook?

aaron@jivesoftware.com — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:05:15 GMT

hey Steve,

All the documentation for Clearspace 2.0 (which is still beta) is over here:

http://www.jivesoftware.com/builds/docs/clearspace/beta/index.html

I looked at this quickly just now and didn't see anything specifically about projects, what were you looking to do?

Cheers,

Re: Will Clearspace X evolve to be more like Facebook?

communities@jivesoftware.com — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:06:05 GMT

Hey AJ, I am struggling to find any decent docs on Projects - can you point me at any?

Cheers

Steve

Re: Will Clearspace X evolve to be more like Facebook?

aaron@jivesoftware.com — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:44:36 GMT

We are looking at using Clearspace X for ad hoc collaborative projects

You should check out the 2.0 beta, projects are turned off by default for ClearspaceX but you can turn them on and then give your users the ability to create projects.

Cheers,