Re: [xwiki-devs] [xwiki-users] [Investigation] User Statuses

Hi Caty, a mail to share my vision about the User Status feature. The main idea is to have a mechanism for users to broadcast messages concerning their activities. The key use cases for this are: 1) Fast communication between enterprise members which can replace IMs and mails with user status 1.1) Communicate what you are working on 1.2) Quick question answering and feedback gathering 1.3) Interesting material dissemination 2) Focused discussions about a given topic 3) Fast communication with external clients to keep them up-to-date In order to realize these use cases we need something that resembles to Facebook's Wall or, if we look at more enterprise oriented products, to SalesForce chatter (http://www.salesforce.com/chatter) In particular: 1) The feature should be implemented as an internal subsystem that takes advantage of the Wiki underlying model for exposing information 1.1) User status can contain reference to Wiki entities (i.e., page, attachments, comments) and external links. As Jerome said in a previous email, this is key. An autocompletion mechanism could help making this feature more usable. 1.2) I am not sure that we need to provide an upload mechanism to associate an artifact to a user status. Linking an attachment in a Wiki page is sufficient in my opinion. 2) It should be possible to define one or more "neighborhoods", i.e., people that will receive our status updates 2.1) This is something that is more powerful wrt to what we have in Facebook because it would allow us to create different social-graphs that can be targeted when a user status is updated 3) It should be possible to comment on a status update (e.g., quick question answering and feedback gathering use case) 4) The user status are not tweets... I think that the number of character should be limited to a reasonable high threshold (e.g., 2048) 5) User statuses should be visible only to the users belonging to the "neighborhood" targeted by the status 6) User statuses could be displayed using an activity stream in the user's profile page and also on the home activity stream 6.1) The user statuses should also appear in the Workspace home pages. In this case they are configured to display the statuses of the "neighborhood" implicitly defined by all the members of the workspace. Feedback is welcome. Thanks, Fabio On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) <valicac(a)gmail.com> wrote: