How-to add your meal-based micro-granting project to sundaysoup.org
Welcome to the How-To guide for sundaysoup.org. This a quickstart guide for adding your project information to the sundaysoup.org database.
The site is set up so that anyone can start their own project "group" page. The group page is the parent element of the "meal" or "event" page (same thing here), which is in turn the parent of the individual proposals and soup recipes. All of the content on sundaysoup.org is contextual in this way.
A note on creating your account
- You have to set your local timezone at the bottom of your edit profile page. The interface, a long list, is totally annoying. I'm sorry. I'm working on that.
How To Create a Sunday Soup Project Group
- login
- Click "add your project" on the Soup Network page
- Fill out the form - the description field is the short little guy at the top of the page. The About section is for more information about your group.
The creator of a group page becomes it's "manager." You can make the rest of the organizers of your project managers as well once they have registered on the site and joined your group. All you have to do is click the "add managers link" below the logo for your project. Managers can add other managers and add events to the group.
Creating an "event" or "meal"
- Click the "plan a meal" link on your group's main page.
- Fill out the form
- take special note of the "submission deadline" field. Group members will not be able to submit proposals to event after that deadline has passed. If you are proposals to past events, you will need to set the submission date into the future so you can add them. When you are all done, don't forget to set the submission deadline to a past date so that no one can accidently submit a proposal to an old meal. You can always add a soup recipe. I realize that htis is a little annoying for adding past data, but once you are all done with that it's "set it and forget it" for all future meals.
Adding past proposals to past events
- Make sure the submission deadline for the event is set to some time in the past, perhaps the day before the event.
- From the event page, click the "submit a proposal" button, which you can find it towards the bottom of the left hand column, under the event poster and such. You can only see it if you are logged in as manager of the group.
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Fill out the Add Proposal form. This is all pretty straight forward, but there is one trick. You need to change the "authored on" field to the approximate date and time that it would have actually been submitted. This is important because it effects the "most recent" proposals list on the front page as well as some other future functionality. The trick here, is that the authored on field is hidden behind another link. Just click on "Authoring Information," it's right above the submit link. You can probably find the original date from the proposal from the email or google form or whatever it is y'all use to collect submissions. If it is non-electronic, just guess.
(extra bonus - If the person who originally submitted the proposal back in the day is also a user on this site, you can set them as the author by typing their user name in the "authored by" field.) - I know that this form doesn't include all of the fields required by all of the various groups. If you need something that isn't available, email me and i will add it.
Winning proposals
After a proposal has won a Sunday Soup meal, you can simply edit field "Amount Awarded" in the proposal form. Proposals that have that field filled out get the blue badge with the dollar amount, and get added to the front page if they are among the top 5 most recent winning proposals. Sundaysoup.org assumes that any proposal without that field filled out is not one of the winning proposals. Currently the system only supports US Dollars, but it is something I am looking into changing. In the meantime, if you need it, here is a currency exchange service I have used before.
If you have any more questions feel free to hit me up!
George,
Sunday Soup GR
