It is possible to search across content titles and tags, within 3 content types: events, projects and members. Search field (also visible in the header navbar) works with autocomplete: start typing and it will offer options from available titles and tags, and display them on the search page (http://ouishare.net/en/search)

Clickable tags

Clicking on a tag brings up a search page displaying content (events, projects, members) that has this tag.

“Coworking” tag results:

Members page

We replaced numeric paging with alphabetic list on the Members public page.

TODO V.3.3.:

add search field on members page
add datafiltering (immediate search like in the backend members list) to be able to find names quickly

SEO

Formerly the SEO description field was one and the same for the entire site, which caused issues. Now the SEO description id auto-filled with the beginning of page content text.

Backend / admin pages

There have been many general changes across the admin section:

Auli has updated the design in many admin pages:

making buttons more visible,
optimizing fields size and placement
improving field labels and adding help texts

PitchMe replaced long user association tick lists in event, community and project pages with a select+dropdown combination (inspired by the language selection list on user profiles). We still need to turn them into autocomplete fields (like the search page has).

Members directory: reactive search / user filtering in the admin page

Write keyword in the Search field and it displays immediately any names or e-mails containing entered characters.

TODO V.3.3: We should add similar filtering also to the public members directory page.

http://ouishare.net/en/admin/users

Communities admin

On communities listing page, added guidelines and link to tutorial in Ouiki.

On Community edit page, Connectors and Events association fields are now select-adds.

(Any community on http://ouishare.net/en/admin/communities)

Event admin

Any event on http://ouishare.net/en/admin/events

Project admin

Any project on http://ouishare.net/en/admin/projects

Home sliders / top banners

On http://ouishare.net/en/admin/home under section “Top Banner”

Project overview details

Website project proposal for participatory budgeting, September 2015

What is planned for the next 6 months? *

What are the next main steps and milestones in the development of your project?

The next steps include:

.. Adding interaction features to other content types (projects, knowledge groups)

.. Adding editable SEO fields to pages

.. Adding search possibilities to members’ directory and site in general

.. Making tags (on events, profiles, projects) interactive so that on clicking on a tag you see all content containing this tag

.. Making joined projects and communities visible on member profiles

.. Improving the backend

What are your concrete needs (financial and other) to start/continue this activity? *

Give us some details about what you require and how we can help you. Don't hesitate to describe needs that are non-financial.

In general we need the budget to be able to work with external developers (Pitch Me) and keep adding features. We also need to have a small buffer to be able to fix the bugs revealed in daily use, and meet crucial unexpected development needs arising during the year in a flexible way.

Outside the financial scope it would be ideal to find a group of Rails experts willing to contribute to smaller bug fixes and flexible improvement of the backend on a volunteer basis, however such tasks and workforce, as is common in open source development, cannot be expected to meet strict deadlines, so it can only be seen as a complementary resource.

Budget minimum and maximum asked: 4000€ - 8000€

Allocated budget: 2,440€

Features selection (November 2015)

Overview in spreadsheet ouishare.net next steps 2015 V(3.)2 / PRIORITY LIST >>

We listed issues fitting the structure named in project proposal, and prioritized all issues, trying to find a combination of issues’ difficulty, priority and amount to fit the available budget.

Main features proposed vs added

.1 Adding interaction features to other content types - DROPPED

Need: Continue creating associations like on we did for community pages - display associated content (communities, members) also on project and knowledge group pages.

Solution: Other issues were more urgent, so we postponed the task to a later release/project.

.2 Adding editable SEO fields to pages - LIGHT SOLUTION

Problem: SEO description was the same static text for the entire website, which confused search engines. We needed specific, potentially editable SEO descriptive text on each page.

Solution: instead of adding specific fields to all pages, SEO description is generated automatically from the beginning of content text. This should solve the issue in most cases.

.3 Adding search possibilities to members’ directory and site in general - LIGHT SOLUTION: content filtering by tags

Need: We needed a site-wide search solution that would enable finding content easily.

Solution: for the lack of budget it wasn’t possible to work out an extensive solution, however having a kind of search remained top priority. We developed a lighter search solution, enabling search/filtering across content titles and tags, within 3 content types: events, projects and members.

We also added members alphabetical listing (by suggestion of Sam Muirhead) on http://ouishare.net/about/members

In the members admin page (http://ouishare.net/en/admin/users), we added datatables search (searches interactively across member names and e-mail addresses across the member database).

Remaining needs:

to develop the search further, to include any page or profile content.
to include more content types in the tags search (determine which ones)
to design search results page http://ouishare.net/search
clean up tags in the pages administration (in older pages, many of them are hashed lists, but they need to be without hashes and separated by comma) - can be done by anyone

.4 Clickable tags - DONE

Making tags (on events, profiles, projects) interactive so that on clicking on a tag you see all content containing the selected tag

.5 Displaying projects and communities on member profiles - DROPPED

Making joined projects and communities visible on member profiles -- it was in the planning but didn’t fit the budget this time.

.6 Improving the backend / admin pages - DONE

added 3 more slides on landing page (final: 5 slides)
added markdown parser to biography field on user profile
display user association lists everywhere as autocomplete
in community page admin:

display events selection as autocomplete
display event date & language after event title
display project language after project title

in events slider, made the whole event clickable
on event page, show “Join us” section only if the join field is filled
display different twitter links based on site language
members list admin: add easy filtering/search
many general CSS/UX changes and fixes made by Auli (screenshots above):

making buttons more visible
improving field labels and help texts, adding texts and subheadings for more clarity
optimising field sizes and placement

Ouishare.net website analytics overview: 2014 vs 2015

Results for the tracker UA-48002605-1 on ouishare.net

General statistics

Number of visitors and % change compared to previous year (2014)

We have visitors from all over the world:

New vs returning visitors

Session duration

Visitor flow

Top visitors

Top countries

France, Spain, USA, Germany, Italy, UK, Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, Brazil

Top cities

Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, London, Lyon, Berlin, Bordeaux, Brussels, Toulouse, Nantes

Next steps: V.3.3

Collections of issues and tasks to be tackled next is available and open to contribution on Github issues, arranged by milestones (task groups) : https://github.com/OuiShare/OuiShare/milestones

If you have any needs or ideas for further development, please feel free to either create a GitHub issue about this (don’t worry about the milestone, we’ll arrange that later), or contact Auli directly via e-mail or slack.