This is a wiki topic for documenting the Community Directory and how it functions.
One of the major features of the directory is support for showing membership of Local Groups and Working Groups.
For more about how this works see the user stories .
Here’s how to get your Local Group setup.
This topic is to make requesting new Local Groups a repeatable process. We have 59 countries in the Open Knowledge network but only 8 Local Groups at present.
To request a new Local Group, add a New Topic in the Local Groups category. Include:
the text you’d like to have in your “About this category” topic. (You can change this later)
the @name of the existing forum member you’d like associated with your “About” topic.
After you’ve added the post, one of our staff or volunteers will set up y…
In the process of building up our Open Knowledge Network, we are representing users of local and working groups using “badges”. You can see these here: Open Knowledge Forums
Group coordinators can add members to their group using links like the following:
https://discuss.okfn.org/groups/ok{xx}/members
For instance, the group coordinator of the OK Sweden local group can visit Open Knowledge Forums to members using the Discourse interface. Membership in Open Knowledge Sweden is viewable here:…
Stephen
April 27, 2016, 10:12am
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@Stephen this is awesome.
My only thought is that this is more about how to use the forum vs using it as a community directory. My suggestion would be moving this to a new forum topic called “Enable a Reply to be marked as a solution” or in a “general” topic called “Tips and Tricks for Using the Forum”.
As a general point on this thread please dive in an edit the main topic post at the top - I’ve made this a wiki topic so anyone can edit and we can use the comments only for discussion.
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