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:
- To foster a sense of community across geographical boundaries
- To help community members form professional and personal relationships
- 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.