Design "subscribe to committee feed" and keywords as part of sign-up / user page

[jaakkokorhonen]

What is a committee?

Users do not subscribe to feeds, in Activitystreams, there is technically just one feed per node. Users do belong to groups.

Keywords are stored in user profile and consumed by the notification engine, and the newsfeed pages' filtering algorithms.

[gvilarino]

Curreny implementation of subscriptions support subscribing to tags, which admins define through the admin interface.

[jaakkokorhonen]

@jayapapaya can you describe the user benefit sought after here?

[jayapapaya]

User benefit sought after:

User can select, see and edit any keywords they are following on their profile page.

The idea would be that, in addition to user-generated keywords, a set of keywords could be predetermined by who ever sets up an instance (in this case, it would be Guanyem) as a way to priorities and match a taxonomy that exists in the "real world" as in the case of the Guanyem Committees.

Guanyem consists of 12 broad topic based committees:

• Immigration
• Work, inequality, precarity and poverty
• LGBT
• Housing, mobility and public space
• Municipal economy
• Culture
• Education
• Health
• Information society
• Civil security -Transparency and local government

So the idea is to, as a predifined set of keywords, be able to subscribe to committees.

[gvilarino]

I wouldn't include this to the sign-up flow. It will only create unnecessary friction.