2009/9/30 Seb Bacon <[email protected]>: > Yes, I've already had that feedback from friends. The whole point of > the site is exactly that, though; if you want to help out on > unspecified, democracy-related tasks, you can do so here. > > So, not sure how we'd fix that. Perhaps add a sentence on the front > page to the effect that you can opt out at any time? Explain that > you're not committing yourself to doing anything, just opting into a > list of people who might want to do something? Change the model so > you're signing up to a particular task?
I could get behind this; while I'm happy to receive alerts about things that need doing locally, I only promise to do the ones that I explicitly sign up to. Some sort of assignment tool would also to help divvy up tasks and avoid duplication of effort. I don't like the "opt-out" idea; it suggests that, until you opt out, you're expected to get involved with everything advertised. This is not realistic and I imagine it would turn people off from signing up. I think many of the objections would disappear once the site has got going and people can scan it for lists of recent tasks people have done -- such a live list of examples would demonstrate what is actually involved and what you are signing up to. But clearly we don't currently know ourselves exactly what is going to be involved. Perhaps it would be good to actually start doing some tasks in some of the hip, laptop-wielding constituencies as a demonstration to others of what is involved? Phil _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
