Proposal for a projects calendar in account profiles

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Overview

Based on user interviews with a sample set of members from Fifthel and rootconf communities a few requirements have becoming evident. These are:

1. Content discoverability.
2. A schedule of upcoming and past projects hosted by the account.
3. Opportunities to network and discover other members within the community.

Out of these the schedule of projects or program listing (2.) inside an account in the form of a projects calendar seems to be big factor in driving purchasing decisions. A clear listing of a quarterly of half-yearly program schedule could ease the sale of the memberships product for a lot of users.

This information can be accessed from the Account model that has all the Projects linked under it. An additional flag that removes selected projects from the calendar can be introduced in the future.

Key information and structure

These are some of points of information that are essential to ease the decision making at the point of purchase.

1. The quantity and frequency of projects included in the membership offering.
2. Other specifics like the time of the project and the day of the week with respect to the current date.
3. The project description or tagline for setting the context.
4. Is the project is offline, online or hybrid?
5. Is the project free for all, free for members or paid for members?
6. Past projects and upcoming projects in the membership offering.
7. If the project is accepting proposals or not.

Affordances

Effectively organizing the information within a widget of a UI component prevents interface overload and allows easy navigation. Based on the above mentioned information hierarchy the UI should afford the following behaviours:

1. Navigate between dates that have scheduled projects, past or upcoming.
2. Navigating to the projects page from the calendar.
3. Apply filters like free, paid, online, offline, hybrid etc.
4. Share the calendar on social media.
5. Sync the calendar.