The Farm Hack River of Activity

In 50 characters or less...	Posted by	Post date	Last comment	Number of Comments
Full details for event	rachelatNOFANY	Friday, June 28, 2013 - 12:24pm	Friday, June 28, 2013 - 12:24pm	0
Edible Hydroponic Wall Garden	nofanh	Thursday, June 20, 2013 - 9:11pm	Thursday, June 20, 2013 - 9:11pm	0
Digital Public Library of America -a treasure trove waiting to be hacked	Jeff Piestrak	Thursday, June 20, 2013 - 10:25am	Thursday, June 20, 2013 - 10:25am	0
Aquaponics	Todd Cleckner	Sunday, June 16, 2013 - 8:15am	Sunday, June 16, 2013 - 8:17am	1
More water at my wash station	jennajane	Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 9:55am	Monday, July 29, 2013 - 8:47pm	2
Why are you interested in Farm Hack?	Jeff Piestrak	Thursday, May 30, 2013 - 3:41pm	Thursday, May 30, 2013 - 10:43pm	2
help? off farm food cart idea but run by battery.	eda	Thursday, May 30, 2013 - 2:51pm	Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - 9:25am	1
ifarm 2013 links and report	dorn	Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 1:18am	Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 1:18am	0
Will there be plans to build this posted as well?	Panterra	Friday, May 24, 2013 - 9:10pm	Friday, May 24, 2013 - 9:10pm	0
FarmHack.net Next Steps Proposal. Feedback encouraged!	R.J. Steinert	Monday, May 20, 2013 - 12:15pm	Monday, May 20, 2013 - 10:35pm	4

Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Sun, 03/04/2012 - 9:15pm

Haha, ya, we're definitely going to have to expand/modify those rules. If anyone wants to keep the ball rolling feel free to post a new forum topic called "Community Collaboration Rules Proposal .1". After a few iterations and some discussion we can vote on one. We could do a vote right now though, an "is this good enough to launch with?" vote.

Submitted by Louis on Sun, 03/04/2012 - 9:04pm

I can easily think of a dozen potential problems with so few rules, however, I fully agree the idea we shouldn't fix it until it's broken. I think that I'm just used to building things and trying to anticipate everything that can go wrong; I don't think the method works when building community.

Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Sun, 03/04/2012 - 6:40pm

Emily asked me a few questions about this proposal and I've decided to paraphrase my answers here.

It's worth pointing out that not all collaboration is going to be good fit for Farm Hack if it is going to be run as a Bazaar. Collaboration in the Cathedral mode is more efficient when you need to limit the amount collaboration to a few people while the Bazaar mode is more efficient if you want that collaboration to scale up to a large number of people.

Collaboration will happen in Forum topics and Wiki Pages under each Farm Hack Topic. For now we can just forums under a "Topic" category and down the line those Topic forums will look like a Tool page does now with a Wiki and a Forum.

Lastly, note that users can create wiki pages right now for whatever purpose they want and link to them from Forum Topics or other Wiki pages.

Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 11:22pm

Hi David, Thanks for the bug report! I can't seem to reproduce it that problem in IE 8. Does that always happen for you or only sometimes? If only sometimes, then is there a URL where it happens consistently? Also, if you take a screenshot of the problem and post it here then I might be able to figure it out.

I just realized we can't attach files to comments. I'll enable that so you can post that screenshot! Also, in case you don't know how to take a screenshot, there might be a "Print Screen" button on your keyboard that will save your screen to an image on your desktop. Sometimes it's abbreviated on your keyboard like "Prnt Scrn".

Submitted by David Meehan on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 7:07pm

I would say it’s very helpful. The best way to make the interface as user-friendly as possible would be to keep it simple, and based on the way the table of contents works on the example site, it’s quite simple. The fact that it follows the user is great since they don’t have to scroll around to find it. It’s always there and hard to miss. Furthermore it works similar to standard hyperlinks, so it should be easy for users to understand. And if a user happens to miss it, he or she could still scroll through the page regularly and it wouldn’t get in the way at all.

One thing I just noticed though is that the banner at the top of this site does not appear in internet explorer. So I’m not sure if that means that any table of contents that gets added will not show up as well in IE. The table of contents at rasantiago does show up in IE though so it can probably be worked with to allow IE users to still have the feature. Making sure users of different browsers can all access the feature is quite important. I just made a post under website problems, so maybe it’s just my browser in which case this would be a non-issue anyway.

Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 2:58pm

Hi David, Making things collapsible would definitely help squeeze things in. I've been thinking a lot lately about how to accomplish usability but still make it accessible for 99% of users. What I worry about is users who aren't familiar with modern UI elements like collapsible elements on a page not knowing that there is more information behind a click of an expand button. I guess if we made anything collapsible expanded by default then we might avoid that problem.. hmmm..

Here's an example of I imagine clicking on a table of contents might behave. Check out http://rasantiago.com/ and click on "solutions" at the top. It will scroll you down the page to the Solutions section of the page. What do folks think about the table of contents scrolling down with the user? Does that sound confusing or helpful?

Submitted by David Meehan on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 2:11pm

What if the Tool Wiki and the Tool Forum subsections of the page were collapsible and expandable? You could probably add something to the banners for each section to allow it to be collapsed or expanded. And this way, if a user wants to go to the discussion, he or she could just collapse the wiki section. I’m not sure how practical such a thing would be, but just throwing some ideas out there.

The table of contents idea definitely sounds like a good idea though. It would be very intuitive for users and would allow easy access to the content of the page.

Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 11:55pm

@Dorn Is this fixed? If not then I'm not understanding your description correctly.

Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 10:41pm

Just added these to the Stages vocabulary and added this as help text for that field on tools. Check it out http://dev.farmhack.gotpantheon.com/node/add/opentools-tool.

Submitted by danpaluska on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 5:33pm

nice list, also dumpsters and local hardware stores. ;)

-dan

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Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 5:28pm

Yay! Nice icon.

Submitted by dorn on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 5:28pm

Amazon and e-bay are often good places to look too.

Submitted by dorn on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 5:15pm

If you have additional suppliers please add to the list in this forum

Submitted by test-user2 on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 8:32pm

A video would help me figure out exactly what I'm doing wrong.

Submitted by test-user2 on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 8:30pm

I'm thinking the 17th of April.

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