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Rumpus Land Online: Progress Update 27 April 2021

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 15:53:58 +0000

Rumpus Land Online: Progress Update 27 April 2021

Created by Thom Browning on 2021/04/27 14:40.

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Thom Browning

Development Site Update

The Rumpus Land Online Development site is progressing nicely. This week it will see its second run in the field to test that currently functionality is stable.

Currently, the following has been implemented:

* The Well: Basic functions include new page names added to The Well in the side menu, and a gallery view of content in The Well in the form of a slider (updates manually).

* The Portal: Collection form that upon submission performs three actions

Sends email to applied.creativity@slq.qld.gov.au as backup.
Creates new page with unique page name in The Well.

Adds line to The Well back-end database (not publicly accessible)

Functions that the WIKI does not currently support invlude:

Databasing/indexing of new data collection by forms for automatic access on other pages.
Linking one page to another through a database/index.
Automated email notifications to users when their THING is logged as being used as inspiraton.
Gallery sliders that automatically update with content from a database/index.

Going Live on Development Site

In order to have participants browse their content post workshops, we will need to put this development site online soon. Things that need to be done before we do this include:

Restructure the site so that The Portal is only available to approved contributors, as a moderation policy.

Go through each page and tidy up the functionality and design across the site.

Attempt to make the site as aesthetically pleasing as is able without our Visual ID or design concept

Add disclaimer text to each page letting viewers know that this is a site in development

Additional Custom Functions

Now that the Rumpus Land Online development site has most functionalities complete, there are now a list of items that will require custom programming to implement.

1. Well Database feeding drop down menu

When the user is submitting Designed Thing X, a field in the form they complete is “Was your design inspired by an Imagined Thing?”
In that field, a drop-down menu appears. The contents of that menu are auto-populated from the Well Database field “Imagined Thing Name”.
The user selects Imagined Thing Y.
When the form is completed, the user presses submit. This form performs three actions:

A new page with a unique name and QR code, and a link to the Imagined Thing Y page.
A new line in the Well Database INCLUDING a link to Imavib above.
An email to applied.creativity@slq.qld.gov.au with the information that Designed Thing X was created inspired by Imagined Thing Y
In addition, the

2. Email Notification Form

A form will be created on the Grumpus back end. It will have two fields, each a drop down menu populated by The Well Database.
A staff member manually selects each field based on the email they have received at applied.creativity@slq.qld.gov.au.
They select: Designed Thing X has been created inspired by Imagined Thing Y.
They hit submit. The form performs one action:

An email is sent from the email address assigned to Imagined Thing Y (in the database) letting them know that Designed Thing X has been created inspired by Imagined Thing Y.
The email features links to both Things and an offer to browse more in The Well.

3. Automatically updating Gallery Sliders

The Well Database contains links to a key image (first image alphabetically assigned to that pagename, for instance), and a “Thing Name” field.
The Gallery Slider is programmed to automatically pull an image and name from every item in that database.

4. Random Button

Implementation of a Randomiser button on The Well, that will send users to any of the pagenames listed within a designated namespace.

Design

Once the functionality and structure of the site is complete, and custom plugins developed, the site can be re-skinned in line with The Great & Grand Rumpus Visual ID.

This will involve:

Engaging with James from Inclusive Communities team (he is the developer of the current SLQ wiki template).

Write a brief for the Comms team who will create the design based on the Visual ID currently in development

Work with Comms to set deliverables and deadlines for the completion of the design work

All About Rumpus Land Online

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:56:13 +0000

All About Rumpus Land Online

This is the planning and process stage behind our Great and Grand Rumpus, visit the in-development Grumpus Land Online here.

Rumpus Land Online is digital space to collect and share data and content; ideas, designs and fabrications. It is a digital repository rich with both whimsy and logic, featuring tools for the input and output of community contributions across the entire Grumpus project.

Hosted on the SLQ Wiki, it is consists of three components:

1. HOME BASE

An arrival point for visiting Rumpus Land Online, this landing page will include

What is The Great & Grand Rumpus
How The Great and Grand Rumpus will come to life
How you can get involved.
Directions to THE PORTAL and THE WELL

Grumpus Main

2. THE PORTAL

THE PORTAL is a tool designed as the input point for content contributions by participants across the Grumpus project. It features a series of online forms aimed at different collection points - well workshops, design workshops, and fabrications. Each form is equipped to collect specific data, stories, audio, documents and images about that unique content, from that unique community member.

Forms (for want of a better word) include (click through to see what content fields will be on each form).

Well Making - Schools
Well Making - Libraries
Design
Fabrication

Each entry will form a THING (we need a better word for this too), with it's own data set. Data fields across these forms does not need to be the same, but each THING key information should be consistent so all collected content displays the same key data set (for instance - Name, Location, Contribution Type).

Data captured in a completed forms will allow each piece of content to be stored with a unique identifier, tags to differentiate content, and will generate a unique QR code which can be used to locate or access that data online or IRL.

The Portal

3. THE WELL

THE WELL is a tool designed as an output point for content contributions, a place for project participants to discover, store, and share THINGS - ideas, designs and fabrications. As a home for all the incredible content being created by participants, all THINGS collected via THE PORTAL will end up in THE WELL. Importantly, not all data collected at INPUT will be shared publicly in the well.

THE WELL will contain three types of THINGS. Submissions of THINGS will be tagged with one of these three categories.

IMAGINED THINGS - Concepts created by children.
DESIGNED THINGS - Designs created by young people, students and community designers.
FABRICATED THINGS - Fabricated sculptures and installations created by young people, students and community fabricators.

Architecture of THE WELL will allow for users to discover content in two ways

BROWSE: A List or Image Carousel that features each THING
RANDOM: A button or other tool to select a thing at random.

They will then choose a tag category to access.

All the THINGS
Imagined THINGS
Designed THINGS
Fabricated THINGS

These could be used as a two stage menu question.

For example…

I want to:

Randomise
Imagined THINGS

The Well

4. AUTOMATION

A crucial function of Rumpus Land Online is an automated messaging service designed to notify participants of instances in which their contribution to the project have been utilized by others.

For example:

Prior to a Well Making Workshop in schools, a parent will have opted in to receiving emails from State Library regarding the project.
The child of that parent will have participated in the workshop and imagined a Neon Troll Fairy, adding their idea as a THING to THE WELL via THE PORTAL including the email address supplied by the parent. Upon submission, the portal generates a unique identifier for the THING #112 (or something that works).
Months later, a young person in an onsite design workshop accesses Rumpus Land Online, where in THE WELL OF DREAMS they discover the most incredible idea - THING #112 - A Neon Troll Fairy -. They work with peers to create a scale-able design for the Troll Fairy, including drawings, renders and CAD files.
As they complete their design, they log their designs as a THING via THE PORTAL. On a drop-down menu on the form, they select that they have used THING #112 as the inspiration for their design. They submit.
An automated email, generated from a template message with data pulled from the THING #112 data set, is sent to the email address assigned to that THING. It informs the parent that the THING created by the participant on X date, the Neon Troll Fairy, as been used as the inspiration for the creation of a new THING - a design called Mega Neon Troll Fairy. It features a link to visit THE WELL and view the THING that has been created.

OTHER THINGS OF NOTE

Language: This process should have the capacity to incorporate participants speaking and writing in languages other than english. What capacity does the SLQ Wiki have to input character sets other than latin?

File Types What file types (audio and images) are able to be uploaded and displayed on the SLQ Wiki? What are the maximum file sizes?

Langauge In line with the philosophy of the Grumpus project, we are working to use non institutional language that captures the whimsy and wonder we are working towards. At the same time, it will also need to be simple and easy to understand. How whimsical should we go? How much is too much? Is there a risk that the abstract language becomes just as much a barrier as the institutional?

Created by Peter Musk on 2021/03/11 16:29.

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Andrei Maberley
Michelle Brown
Peter Musk
Thom Browning