Teams

[scarroll32]

An optional team name field will be added to the participant profile, with one team possible for each challenge. A team is created by filling this field in, which then generates a new API key for the team. Any team member can submit using the team API key, but only the leader can recycle it. Teams will appear in a new tab on each participant's profile.

The primary team leader can then invite other users to become members of the team via their crowdAI username. A team leader can eject team members.

A section will be added the to-be-written FAQ about rules for teams.

[scarroll32]

@marcelsalathe @spMohanty Please review.

[spMohanty]

Looks great to me !! 👍

Some considerations :

• Can a participant still submit as an individual after he joins a team ?
• Confirmations from every team member, when they join a team
• Can a participant join multiple teams in the same challenge ?
• Can we make any of these things configurable ?

Guess the simplest way to go forward on this front is to have a setup, where someone can create a team and add members. All members need to confirm before they are "official members" of the team. Once you join a team, and the team makes a submission,. you cannot submit as an individual in the same challenge. (Note that before joining a team, you might have had made submissions as an individual). An individual cannot be a member of more than one team in the same challenge.

Does this make sense ?

[scarroll32]

OK I'll ask Jason to help with the very minimal design required on Monday.

[scarroll32]

To answer your questions above @spMohanty The general premise is to get it running asap, and it could be enhanced in a future release.

• Can a participant still submit as an individual after he joins a team ? Yes - they use their own API key instead of the team key
• Confirmations from every team member, when they join a team No - they are invited by the leader
• Can a participant join multiple teams in the same challenge ? Yes, but only because it is easier not to write code to prevent it
• Can we make any of these things configurable ? Yes, but in a future version. Eventually everything will be configurable in crowdAI, and there shouldn't be much need for a developer anymore

[scarroll32]

@spMohanty @marcelsalathe so we will go ahead with the design above, unless there are any more comments.

[scarroll32]

Please note that this model implies a user participant can be the leader of only 1 team at a time.

[scarroll32]

Upon further discussion, it's probably better to create a separate teams object. UI to be discussed with Jason.

[scarroll32]

As discussed today Jason will do some wireframes. @jsnrynlds

[scarroll32]

Hi @jsnrynlds , @spMohanty and I discussed this in detail today and here are a few thoughts for the design. We'd like to implement this in about a month if possible (we can also have a call to discuss further).

Add a "Teams" tab to the profile page

• This is publicly viewable

Create Team

On the teams tab page, there is a "create team" button. Teams that a user belongs to, or has been invited to are listed there, with a link to the team detail page.

• The team owner can never change
• A team can be retired
• Members may belong to multiple teams
• Teams may submit to multiple challenges
• Users (except the leader) may leave the team at any time
• New team members can be invited

Notifications (email + notification dropdown)

• You are invited to team ...
• Sean accepted your invitation to team yyyy
• Bill has left team yyyy
• Submission made by (other team member) for team zzzz
• Team was retired

Team attributes

• team name (no spaces)
• API key with recycle button (only viewable to team members)
• Invite team member button, when pressed opens a box to type in the member's name with typeahead / dropdown
• List of current and invited team members - crowdAI username (public) and email address (only for other team members)
• Team leader is listed first, with 'leader' next to their name as a badge

Team Detail

The Team Detail page is linked from the summary page on the participant profile. Team Fields

• same as on profile page
• list of challenges submitted to, with submissions made
• For each submission, a link or accordion is available to show the team members at that point in time
• Leave team button for current members
• Retire team button visible only to leader + "are you sure"

[jsnrynlds]

Hi @seanfcarroll – thanks, and apologies I've not gotten back to you on this yet. I'm struggling a bit with workload at the moment but as soon as I get a chance I'll look at this. I should have some time next week.

[scarroll32]

No problem @jsnrynlds we can also discuss via Skype if helpful.

[scarroll32]

Linked issue roles

[scarroll32]

As per crowdAI meeting 27/08 this is low / on hold.

[spMohanty]

@natejenkins : Lets move this to AIcrowd/AIcrowd, and bump up its priority. This will still need more discussions, but would still be interested in what your fresh thoughts on this are.