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

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:

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?

~~Change question to “did you feel comfortable hosting this person/being guest/meeting them?”~~
- ask michal: How do we have to handle the translation of strings? Do the json files update automatically? ~~- Change colors from red/green to neutral~~
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

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

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

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

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.