list of bridges with leaders

[ultrasaurus]

I'd love to highlight the Bridges and their leaders on the Bridge Foundry website. Instead of building out something there, I think it could make sense to keep the data in Bridge Troll and pull it via an API.

Idea

• bridge model: name & description, has many leaders (user) -- for most bridges this would be a board, but sometimes new bridges, just have a leader or two doing workshops
  • editable by leaders
  • page where the list of bridges and their info would be visible (with analogous JSON API) or maybe better: a page for each bridge with list of bridges on the home page

Eventually, allow workshops to be linked to bridges, then (for the Bridges that use Bridge Troll) we could auto-generate stats about # of workshops, students, TAs, etc. which is the kind of data that is really good to send to sponsors and media

[tjgrathwell]

There's a model called Organization which serves this purpose (every event has an @event.chapter.organization). "Chapter leader" and "Organization leader" functionality isn't quite built out yet, though we have "Region leader" functionality so it wouldn't be too different than that.

I would prefer that the code just called them Organizations rather than Bridges because "bridge" seems more of a branding type concern. Presumably someday an organization with a compatible ethos could post events on Bridge Troll without having a 'Bridge' in their name.

[ultrasaurus]

@tjgrathwell @lilliealbert can you tell me a bit about RegionLeader functionality? with all chapters I've talked to, the different Bridges don't interact and choose a specific region leader, instead the individual chapters have leaders and the bridges have leaders.... can you provide some examples of current region leaders and what is enabled for them in Bridge Troll?

Thanks!

[lilliealbert]

Since Region Leader was brought over directly from what used to be Chapter Leader, all the role can do is view and edit additional details on locations within that region, specifically contact info & notes fields.

It's not a very-much used feature, but was added to try to help chapter leaders not have to keep a separate spreadsheet of venue contact information.

The reason that we'd want to have any chapter lead be able to edit the locations would be for locations that were shared across Bridges — for example Pivotal in SF has hosted both RailsBridge and MobileBridge events, and we don't want to have to have multiple locations for a single office in Bridge Troll. I'd expect any chapter lead in the region of SF would be added as a leader of that region.