Sorry for my late reply: On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:46:49PM -0700, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > --- Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj wrote: > > On Apr 9, 2005 3:42 AM, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > > > > > > The proposed idea is to engage the various project maintainers by having > > > them step-in to cultivate future helpers and volunteers. The idea is as > > > follows. When a person registers today he/she has to indicate if they're > > > interested in one of 4 categories - Translator, Developer, Artist and > > > Public-Relations. Depending on the category he/she chooses, the user > > > will see a pull-down menu with a list of all the active (ie. non-retired > > > or completed) projects in that category. He will be asked to select an > > > entry (default is "SELECT a PROJECT" - ie. they HAVE to select something > > > else their registration won't be accepted). > > > > Is it too early for technical questions? This drop-down menu with the > > list of related projects, should it be on the same page as the > > category selection menu, or on the next page? It is possible to have a > > menu right next to the category selection menu and when user selects > > translator for example the other menu is dynamically populated with > > GNOME, KDE etc... or... we can have this selection on the next page. > > First method would involve JavaScript, something which our site is > > almost free of. I'm for making the registration process a multi-page > > one. > > It's upto you. Personally I think a single page would be nicer. > Some other options, > > + Force a re-load of the page (don't think you need javascript for this) > + Spawn a small page with the pull-down menu (don't need javascript) > > But as noted it is entirely upto the implementer :-) > It's something I hate to say, But I know how to implement such a menu in javascript. I've implemented a 3-4 selection-dependant menu like this. I'm offering my help here. > > I noticed most of the people who register (for those who dont know, we > > get a LOT of newly registered people) do not even go and subscribe to > > the lists we suggest in our welcome email. Is it because they are > > lazy? Is it because they dont know how? I dont care. What I have in > > mind is just near the end of the registration process, they get a list > > of checkboxes of all the mailing lists. e.g. they would say "subscribe > > to the Documention and Translation Mailing List", "Subscribe to the > > General list". For those of you who have ever signed up with MSN > > Hotmail, this will sound very familiar. In fact I plan to copy the MS > > model by creating nice little icons for all the mailing lists. > > > > Some of those checkboxes would be preselected by default based on the > > category of contribution the new registree picked in the previous > > page. i.e. if he chose "developer", the developer list would be > > preselected by default. > > Sounds reasonable - we just didn't feel right and/or comfortable adding > people without their consent (make sure to make it plenty clear to them > that they can remove/add/change things by supplying the mailing-lists > URL). Make sure to also select the 'announce' list for all :-) > WEll, Since they'll get a confirmation email from mailman and they have to click on a URL or to reply to the email otherwise they won't be subscribed, there is no harm IMHO. -- ---------------- -- Katoob Main Developer, Arabbix Maintainer. GNU/Linux registered user #224950 Proud Egyptian GNU/Linux User Group <www.eglug.org> Admin. Life powered by Debian, Homepage: www.foolab.org -- Don't send me any attachment in Micro$oft (.DOC, .PPT) format please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Preferable attachments: .PDF, .HTML, .TXT Thanx for adding this text to Your signature
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