SensioLabs Connect, a week later

November 16, 2011 · Published by

Fabien Potencier

To celebrate our 1000th user on SensioLabs Connect in a week, we have just rolled out a new version that takes into account some of the feedback we had from the community after the launch.

First, and by popular demand, we now support Gravatar for profile photos (this is in fact the default now if you don't upload a photo).

We have worked on the email confirmation problems (we should be whitelisted now in various databases) and you can now even get a duplicate of the confirmation email if needed.

The most important news of course is the new badges that we have added to the system:

The first 100 registered users were awarded a unique badge to thank them for being fast (sorry for the others, this badge won't be awarded anymore);
The attendees of all Symfony Live Conferences have also been awarded a badge;
Finally, some badges have been awarded based on the seniority in the community.

You can see most of them on my profile.

The Symfony Live Conference badges and the seniority badges are awarded based on a match between your email on SensioLabs Connect and the one you used when registering on various websites (symfony-project.org, symfony-live.com, forum.symfony-project.org, groups.google.com, ...). To be clear, if the emails do not match, you won't have the badge. Hopefully, we have added a way to link additional emails to your account just for this purpose (they allow us to better track your past community achievements). So, go your account, add the emails you used previously on these websites, and soon enough, you will gather more badges!

Many people asked us for the OAuth2 documentation and how they can connect to the system. Frankly, we didn't expected such an interest so early after launch; so we are far from ready yet but we are working hard to make it available as soon as possible.

In the meantime, we have started to work on a public API. You can now get public profiles via JSON by adding .json at the end of any public profile (like in https://connect.sensiolabs.com/profile/fabpot.json).

Stay tuned as we have many more exciting features in the work.

Published in #Community

Help the Symfony project!

As with any Open-Source project, contributing code or documentation is the most common way to help, but we also have a wide range of sponsoring opportunities.

Comments

Andrew Tchircoff said on Nov 16, 2011 at 13:14

Just a hint - it would be quite cool to have company profiles in connect, since there can be many people presenting the same company (e.g. knplabs or sensio).

Anyway, it's an excellent service!

Ricard Clau Certified said on Nov 16, 2011 at 13:25

Absolutely agree with Andrew about the company profiles!

Anyway thanks for all your work and bringing some fun in unlocking badges :)

Benjamin Steininger said on Nov 16, 2011 at 13:30

Is there a Bugtracker for Sensio Connect ?

Currently the Loginform on the left on https://connect.sensiolabs.com/login does not show you if you mistyped your password or username, it just shows the page with the form again.

Does not happen on the login-form in the upper-right corner here: "https://connect.sensiolabs.com".

Feature: Showing the user whats wrong after submitting forms
In order to know what I do wrong
As a user
The SensioConnect Loginform should tell that I did something wrong

Scenario:
Given I am not loggend in on Sension Connect
And I did not yet allow "symfony.com" as a Connection
And I am on "http://symfony.com/blog/sensiolabs-connect-a-week-later"
When I press "connected" # Then I am on https://connect.sensiolabs.com/login
And I enter username
And I enter wrong password
And I press "Sign in"
Then I should see "Your Username or Password is wrong"

Magnus Nordlander Certified said on Nov 16, 2011 at 13:31

The additional e-mail addresses is great, hopefully this will add a few years to my count :)

However, when i completed my profile, I never received any 100% completion badge, and I still haven't despite uncompleting it and completing it again.

I'm guessing there might be more of us out there with the same problem?

Dustin Whittle Certified said on Nov 16, 2011 at 13:31

Great news!

Benoît Merlet said on Nov 16, 2011 at 13:34

Its funny, i was just asking about the badges this morning on IRC and here is the answer! :)
Thanks for the efforts to facilitate community growth.
Cheers!

Benjamin Steininger said on Nov 16, 2011 at 13:35

Wow, my comment without breaks looks weird ... i can has nl2br() plz ?

At least looking in the source-code the breaks are still there :)

Loïc Vernet Certified said on Nov 16, 2011 at 13:54

+1 for: company profiles, to have a link to our symfonians profil and badges for sf1 plugins or sf2 bundles. :)

François Zaninotto said on Nov 16, 2011 at 13:58

I am very sad not to see a "6 years badge" on your profile... and on mine ;)

Julien Breux said on Nov 16, 2011 at 13:58

#10

Great news, i join you :)

Kamil Adryjanek said on Nov 16, 2011 at 14:06

#11

Is there any way to change username? Or for example change profile url?

Kamil Adryjanek said on Nov 16, 2011 at 14:13

#12

+1 for link to symfonians profile;
+1 for company profiles;
What about "3 years badge" on my profile ?

William Durand said on Nov 16, 2011 at 14:34

#13

Nice work.

BTW, how did you get the information about "how many years involved in [s|S]ymfony ?" ?

Andrew Tchircoff said on Nov 16, 2011 at 15:00

#14

William, as I understand it's collected from registration dates on old symfony-project.org forum, trac, and plugin repository.

Christos Kopanos said on Nov 16, 2011 at 15:12

#15

Great community initiative. How did i get 2 100% badges?

Bart Guliker said on Nov 16, 2011 at 15:14

#16

I like the whole connect idea, but I think it's not really logical to have to link all sorts of accounts in order to complete your profile. I don't have a LinkedIn account, I don't want one, yet I can't complete my profile without it. Linking 1 or 2 accounts to complete your profile is fine, but all of them?

Tobias Sjösten said on Nov 16, 2011 at 16:12

#17

I really like this initiative.

But why the .json ending and not a nice Accept header? Also it would be awesome if you could add CORS support for the public data.

http://enable-cors.org/

Good job! Keep it up. :)

Carlos Mafla said on Nov 16, 2011 at 16:13

#18

I can see my Symfony Live 2011 SF Badge ! whoo hoo, also my membership date was updated. thanks

Fabien Potencier Certified said on Nov 16, 2011 at 16:58

#19

@Tobias Sjösten: CORS support is now enabled.

Maria Lansole said on Nov 16, 2011 at 19:10

#20

How do I add the Social section to my profile?

Maria Lansole said on Nov 16, 2011 at 19:14

#21

Got it. I need a website to show the others social sites. The thing is... I don't have a website :)

Sergio Fabián Vier said on Nov 16, 2011 at 19:27

#22

nice work!!

+1 company prfiles

Have connect.sensiolabs.com the ability to scan non english communities?

Fabrizio Pucci said on Nov 16, 2011 at 22:17

#23

Nice work and very interesting ...

Francis Besset Certified said on Nov 16, 2011 at 23:34

#24

The patch is very interesting!

Daniel Richter Certified said on Nov 17, 2011 at 00:08

#25

How about integrating/merging this with the http://symfonians.net site?

Tobias Olry said on Nov 17, 2011 at 09:00

#26

+1 for bug tracker

e.g. on the public profiles line breaks in the biography/about won't show up, nl2br() pls

Otherwise great work!

Will additionally linked E-Mail addresses be used for badges too (e.g. work e-mail used for conferences)?

Łukasz Rodziewicz said on Nov 17, 2011 at 11:01

#27

I'm looking forward to see how the project will evolve! :-)

Christian Schaefer said on Nov 17, 2011 at 11:54

#28

Awesome feature and nice badges! I like that the whole thing is o effortless.
Funny though that I seem not to have attended sflive2010.. :)

Noel Guilbert said on Nov 18, 2011 at 06:16

#29

Great work guys!

Franck Jousseaume said on Nov 18, 2011 at 08:51

#30

Nice, I have "1 year" and "2 years" badges !

Emanuele Gaspari said on Nov 20, 2011 at 23:04

#31

joined, what a pity not to be in first 100!

Alexandre Balmes said on Nov 21, 2011 at 12:48

#32

+1 user on connect :)

- said on Nov 24, 2011 at 15:31

#33

Thanks for fixing the confirmation mail issue.
You should also look at the password reset function, right now you can enter anyone's email to reset their password.

Óscar López said on Nov 25, 2011 at 10:50

#34

Symfony gamification ROX!!! :-)

Vincent Composieux said on Nov 28, 2011 at 13:38

#35

A really great work! Joining the network :)

Jérôme Poskin said on Nov 30, 2011 at 20:18

#36

Excellent, it begins to be funny.
Should be great to have "friendship" between members and an easy way to search them...
And is there badges for github pull requests and other contribution on github ?

The API is a great idea, I'll check with the team to put our badges on our website.

Nice work as usual...

Jörg Basedow said on Dec 7, 2011 at 22:00

#37

Gamifying the Symfony community was a very clever move ;-)

I would like to have friendships/contacts á la linked.in as well.

Club and contact Suggestionen would be nice, too.

Comments are closed.

To ensure that comments stay relevant, they are closed for old posts.

SensioLabs Connect, a week later

Comments

Comments are closed.

What is Symfony?

Learn Symfony

Screencasts

Community

Blog

Services

Deployed on