Item33: Set up a consultant directory

Create an application that supports the creation and indexing of "consultant pages". Each page would contain (along with descriptive text) metadata indicating the consultant's location, specialties, etc. This would make it possible for a prospective client to find a consultant in the same locale (or, at least, time zone).

The WikiConsultants page (cloned from twiki.org) is awkward to maintain, we need a proper app for that.

A form that defines:

• Name
• Location (perhaps with the googlemaps plugin)
• Expertise
  • Maybe some tickboxes plus free text
• Sort of consultant
  • Skin designer
  • HTML/CSS guru
  • Plugin author
  • Core hacker
  • ...

Please refine

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Lets create a small application for WikiConsultants. Im quite short in time at the moment, but will start a first draft on 8/9th of Nov.

-- OliverKrueger - 01 Nov 2008

I fully support that approach. That is a very good idea.

* MartinSeibert - 01 Nov 2008

I can imagine people are looking for expertise (coding, customization, etc.) and availability on the job (location).

• ArthurClemens - 02 Nov 2008

Ouch, WikiConsultants now containts an html table, horrible.

I'm starting WikiConsultantForm

-- KoenMartens - 03 Nov 2008

Well, i've layed out the very first rough bare-bone consultant app, please improve !!

-- KoenMartens - 03 Nov 2008

I think it would be good to be able to include at least a 1-line description of each consultant in the table. Just having a general table of services doesn't tell much and so requires user to drill down to each individual topic to get much of any info. I'm not sure how to incorporate it into table. I tried displaying the ExtraInfo field as a tooltip but that didn't work. I think it may be useful to add a field for 1 line "byline".

-- LynnwoodBrown - 04 Nov 2008 - 17:50

please see Item75

-- Someone

I have reverted my work. If anyone cares to pick this up, if and when the community decides this is something we want, i've uploaded the files as http://nextwiki.org/pub/Support/WikiConsultants/consultants-app.tar.gz.

-- KoenMartens - 04 Nov 2008 - 22:11

When someone does pick this up again, I think it would be really neat if the Search would pick up the information from a user's topic.

• SvenDowideit

People were right, i've re-reverted the work again Not letting a tdn consultant sabotage progress :))

Sven's suggestion does have some ring to it, although I'm not consulting as a person but as a company, does that matter re putting the info in the usertopics?

Anyway, sven, welcome to refactor!

• KoenMartens

I replaced the "x" with a somehow nicer bullet icon. Added a tooltip to the bullets. Closing this item for the moment, cause I think, its nice enough for a first shot. Please re-open it again, if you want to add the world-map or whatever other cool feature.

-- OliverKrueger - 25 Nov 2008