COSIMA Hackathon v2.0 -- Tuesday January 24th, 2023

[Aidan (Aidan Heerdegen, ACCESS-NRI Release Team Lead)]

@navidcy

@Aidan why do you have an ACCESS-NRI logo on your avatar? How do we get badges like that?

They’re called “flair” in discourse world, and requires the use of groups. I’d canvassed if we wanted to use these in the “staff” category for site admins, but I’ve moved that post to site feedback to make it visible and get some … well feedback

Add little badges (flair) to user images

@holger wondered if there was some way to easily display affiliation to help with understanding who people are and their roles and interests. Turns out discourse has an option to add a little icon to your avatar (image) and calls this “avatar flair”. If we have groups for Organisations (as mentioned in https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/using-discourse-groups-for-working-groups/192/1) then those organisations could have an icon. And we can make a setting that automatically adds the primary gro…

related:

Using Discourse Groups for Working Groups

We could utilise groups for working groups. It has the ability to message all group members which might be useful functionality It is possible to make other groups for institutional affiliation, but that seems exclusionary rather than inclusive and not sure there would be much point.