What and Why

Note

Connect is in active development and not yet feature complete. See RoadMap for information on planned features.

Objectives

Connect’s objectives are:

1. To foster a sense of community across geographical boundaries
2. To help community members form professional and personal relationships
3. To ensure a safe and welcoming space

Features

Core Functionality

Connect members can:

• Create a profile containing:

  • A biography
  • Links to external websites (e.g, twitter profile, linkedIn profile)
  • Roles - for nominating how they prefer to interact with other members (e.g. by selecting ‘mentor’)
  • Skills
  • Location settings (TODO)

• Filter the membership base by:

  • Role
  • Skill
  • Location (TODO)

• Contact other Connect members (TODO)

Safety And Security

• Membership by invitation or approval only
• Built-in abuse reporting and adjudication system
• Logging of moderator decisions (viewable by other moderators)

Email Notifications

• Standard users are notified when:

  • Their account application is approved or rejected
  • They are invited to Connect
  • They are reinvited to Connect (reminder email)
  • An abuse report they have logged has been adjudicated
  • A moderator issues a them a warning (as a result of an abuse report logged against them)
  • A moderator bans them from the site (as a result of an abuse report logged against them)

• Moderators are notified when:

  • A new account application is logged
  • A new abuse report is logged

Moderators do not receive email reports (nor can they view logs) where they are the subject of an abuse report.