2016 Year in Preview: The Future of element14

RE: 2016 Year in Preview: The Future of element14

pettitda — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 18:46:58 GMT

I think @dougw 's idea of sponsoring mentor-ships would be a great addition to the community. Those of us who work for smaller companies (and small businesses are the future) can tell you that often there are no mentors available within your organization. In most instances throughout my career I have been the only person in my organization who does what I do. So, the ability to go to a community like E14 and seek out a mentor would be very beneficial to the industry.

RE: 2016 Year in Preview: The Future of element14

dougw — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 04:33:13 GMT

The e14 staff do a great job finding ways to motivate participation with all kinds of forum topics, participation "Likes", questions, answers, BH suggestions & creations, badges, MoMs, MoYs, badges, give-aways, contests, road tests, blog challenges, design challenges, etc.

It is a spectacular eco-system with excellent ROI for all concerned.

So keep up the the great work looking for more motivations to entice an even wider audience to participate.

Maybe a "Member-of-the Week" would allow more members to enjoy that kind of success.

More small give-away contests would encourage more participation without requiring extensive commitments.

Even swag contests seem to have wide appeal.

I'm still pondering what structure and logistics might spawn a successful mentorship system.

I know these things are a lot of work, but hey, you wanted suggestions....

Doug

RE: 2016 Year in Preview: The Future of element14

DAB — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 19:49:11 GMT

I think the past year sets the tone for the coming year at Element 14.

We have a good group of members who help those in need and are freely exchanging ideas and skills.

I know there is a desire to expand Element 14 into a major community, but I think we now have a fairly comfortable support level in which to entice more people to participate.

Time will tell.

DAB

RE: 2016 Year in Preview: The Future of element14

COMPACT — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 19:46:48 GMT

You need to have upside down fonts installed so that I can read everything without turning my PC and tablet upside down.

You should release a new computer platform with an M.2 nVMe interface and FPGA called "Cheese Cake".

This'll allow me to have my cake and eat it too!

Say CHEESE!

RE: 2016 Year in Preview: The Future of element14

kas.lewis — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 19:30:17 GMT

I just wrote a comment, I will link to it here to help out.

Kas

RE: 2016 Year in Preview: The Future of element14

mcb1 — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 19:27:50 GMT

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This opens the floodgates and is a brave endeavour.

As we said on the visit to Leeds, the search capabilities of the site are less than ideal and google seems to do better to return meaningful results.

The end product of this is that the community holds vast great resource, but unless you can find it, you may as well write with invisible ink.

For some reason new people seem to be hitting the Ben Heck area and posting every question there.

Why??

Is it that goggle takes them there, or is it the first thing they see and click on.?

The Cadsoft is also an area that seems to attract weird and unrelated queries which have nothing to do with PCB, and needs further investigation.

I'd like to see a decent menu for Roadtests and another for Design Challenges.

That way you can see the previous ones, and then go to them to find the information.

Otherwise I think the actual forum and the management is better than most others I have visited.

Thanks

Mark

RE: 2016 Year in Preview: The Future of element14

johnbeetem — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 17:56:16 GMT

I'll add my usual Howl in the Wilderness and ask that the http://www.element14.com/community/groups/fpga-group be put back on the main Topics tab [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-31e0987f-dccb-4733-9044-0b0ac1c3901f/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]

I'll also hope that the upgrade goes well and doesn't result in a significant exodus [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-31e0987f-dccb-4733-9044-0b0ac1c3901f/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]