Editing Meeting Minutes/2020-04-13 Hackweek - references session

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History At the begining, refs were not needed (similar people) and the size of the community was too small.

How do you actually trust profile? * When you see picture * When you can read more about them * When they have friends * Life outside Trustroots

References as: * Security/safety feature * A way to say “thank you” * Indication of experience * Indication of like-mindedness

No “negative” “vs positive” Removing green/red as connotation of good/bad Free text description; load on support?

== Demo: ==

* Invitation only feature — history + data
* +1 idea to tribe belonging
* reference people according to meet in person
* report ppl when you give negative ref
* 3rd step is free-text

== Invitation-only feature ==

* it was not in the very beginning
* introduced in Spring 2017 to get more quality on UX
* Autumn 2018 feature was removed

== New ideas: ==

* connect feature with “add as contact” feature? tie refereces closer to contacts as a way to lower the barrier to get references, also solves problems around “this profile doesn’t have references” — highlight them that they have contacts instead.
* show only “this person has hosted someone within 6 months” -type of indication about activity, hide “no” / “yes” answers publicly
* it’s problematic to collect “yes”/“no” replies first privately, then publish them later on
* giving a “matching score” about like-minded people can be misleading.
* option to say “haven’t met them”
* guidelines for writing free text
* how much do you trust the person?
* at some point have a minimum measure for new profiles to be allowed to leave references (but not in the beginning)
* How do we not make the freetext field a popularity contest?

== Action items ==

=== Team 1 ===

who: Abel, Dario branch: https://github.com/Trustroots/trustroots/tree/references-private-experience

* <s>Change question to “did you feel comfortable hosting this person/being guest/meeting them?”</s>
** ask michal: How do we have to handle the translation of strings? Do the json files update automatically? <s>- Change colors from red/green to neutral</s>
* Check expected behaviour and database storing
** How is stored in db when you check more than one option of how do you know them
* go through other UI to make sure that texts are clear what is public/what is not

=== Team 2 ===

who: Nick, Edvard, Michal

* Add guidelines how to fill freetext, what to write in it? describe more the person, not the event/place. Ideas:
** “What would you add to this profile?”
** [michal] first of all, what culture of references do we want to encourage?
** [michal] how to use non-judgmental language, say I had that experience rather than this person is such and such. What else is important in non-violent communication?
* Add public freetext
* Remove frontend display of negative / positive refs
* public fields in listing: hosted or not, free text, people, date
** ensure backend API only returns public fields
* PR for listing references, needs rebasing and reworking a bit: https://github.com/Trustroots/trustroots/pull/918

==== Steps ====

* add freetext field in the backend/database model + add freetext field to the backend API + maybe backend tests for those parts
** TODO: feedbackPublic is optional, but should it have a minimum/maximum length (max:2000, min:none)
** TODO: check about email notification message
** TODO: check about push notification message
** TODO: what format should the message be in? plaintext, or rich text with mediumeditor?
** TODO: if with mediumeditor then we need to check the maximum is plaintext value
* restrict which fields are viewable for other members (i.e. the “did you feel comfortable” bit (and other stuff?) should be kept private)
* later… some more UI stuff

=== To distribute ===

* Keep the 2 week period,
* General question: Will references be available in the “Download your data” section?
** Just add it there and it will. :-) -Mikael

=== Nice-haves: ===

* Possibly private free text?
* Encourage people to leave references
* Activity or experience number in profile summary-area: Number of references in the last 6 months? Similar to “last seen 2 months ago” thing.