[Fsa-guatemala] What data is easily available to Groups?

[Jamie McClelland]

On Wed Sep 17, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> One of the pieces of feedback that we've gotten repeatedly from
> Participants in this exercise is that they want easier ways to quickly
> tell what's going on.

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> The Scribe can at any time request a list of revisions of a given
> Right, along with the time of the revision -- in the past, this has
> not included any information about who had endorsed each revision.
> Some Participants wanted prior endorser information available.

I think seeing a list of past endorsers is a good idea.

> Other Participants have requested that their Group somehow get
> notified if a Right that they had Endorsed got changed (i.e. if their
> Endorsement was cleared).  This would make it easier for them to keep
> track of Rights that they care about (so that they can more-quickly
> re-Endorse or Edit, depending on their feeling about the revision).

I don't clearly remember people saying that they want easier ways to
know what's going on as much as people saying that there's too much
going on, please slow it down! 

Especially with all the language chaos, I would be hesitant to add
anything additional that will require a group to process more
information. 

Furthemore, I think we *do* need to add some kind of inter-group
messaging. I would rather not have automatic alerts compete for the
attention of a group with things like messages from other groups.

> I'm sure other folks can think of other types of alert/notification
> that are possible.  But we currently have only two ways to get data to
> the Groups: the Board, and the Scribe's connection.  Are there ways to
> get the data that we want to get to the Groups smoothly within this
> constraint?  Do we want to consider adding some additional conduit of
> information?

Text messages :). !! Just kidding.

jamie


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