Feature: Show Skills of members on the Site

[sandersjj]

Hello,

On the last meeting I had the privilege to Speak to @rdohms about the new site. I really like it. I opted the ideat that members of the community could show on the site which skills they have. Aren't we here to help each other? Aren't we colleagues.

So lets say I am looking for someone who is good at Behat for example I should be able to search through the db and look for members in Amsterdam who I could contact.

@rdohms liked the idea. I don't know if this is the place to put them down. But maybe it could start from here.

Happy to hear your thoughts about it.

And after all: Happy new year, happy coding!

[pascaldevink]

Would this be something we could couple with Meetup's users through the API? Or do we need to build up a new database of users and let them have a "profile" of sorts (which would be searchable)?

[rdohms]

With a little work we can use Meetup as a single-sign-on kind of thing.
Then people can just login and "decorate" their local profile with their skills. Having our own login/user DB may not be too interesting i think.

[sandersjj]

I'm not sure if the meetup API could be used for it. In your meetup you could only add some biography and that's it. There is no way to systematically add your skills. It looks like we need to use the Amsteredamphp database for this.

[rdohms]

@sandersjj yes but we use the meetup API as a base for the user account and authentication, that means we only need to store and handle the skills not new username/passwords.

[sandersjj]

@rdohms Correct

[sandersjj]

Which tool could i use for a wireframe and what parts exactly need to be wireframed?

[rdohms]

@sandersjj i use the term wireframes loosely. Its just something to show whomever will implement the general direction. We basically need to specify the details, how we will display it, where it integrates, searching, etc..