A new type of store for coordination purposes only
Description
I think that we need a new type of store for the purpose of team coordination. There are at least 5 of those in Hamburg, all created by different people for different purposes, and none of them directly related to saving food. Still, they are implemented as stores because that's all that the system offers. So the first sentence in the store description is "This is not a store. It's used for coordinating XYZ."
For example:
- Orga for instagram.com/foodsharing_hamburg (https://foodsharing.de/?page=fsbetrieb&id=21030&sub=forum)[who is responsible for posting images this week?]
- Orga for FairTeiler Eilbek (https://foodsharing.de/?page=fsbetrieb&id=21951&sub=forum)[who will clean when, who will bring food items, etc.]
- Lastenrad HH (I don't have a URL since I'm not in the team) [who has the bike, who will repair it, etc.]
- Spontan-Abholungen Hamburg Ost (Notfälle, Backups, Einmal-Abholungen, Event-Rettung) (https://foodsharing.de/?page=fsbetrieb&id=17814) [mostly messages like "I need 3 people tomorrow at 5 pm for XYZ". Used very often by many store coordinators]
- Spontan-Abholungen Altona (Notfälle, Backup, Einmal-Abholungen, Event-Rettung) (don't have a URL, I'm not in the team) [same as above]
These all use the features of a store (calendar, scheduling events, having a person responsible for an event, communicating with a team), but are not strictly associated with a specific store for saving food.
••• It would be great to have a new kind of store (maybe just call it "team" or "orga"), with a different icon on the map. •••
Impact
It would help BIEBs and BOTs (store coordinators and ambassadors) to organize teams for purposes other than saving food.
These Orga teams are usually constantly looking for members, so they are open most of the time and visible on the map. It would be great if they had a different icon on the map.
Proposal
- Add a new attribute to the entity 'store / Betrieb': type = (a) for saving food, (b) for organization purposes only. Set all current stores to type (a).
- Allow the BIEB to change the type when creating or editing a store.
- For "Orga stores" (type b) use a different icon on the map.
- (optional, but desired) The map view currently has filters for food baskets, stores and fairteilers. Add one more filter for "Orga stores".
Note that this proposal makes it very easy to convert any existing store into an Orga-Betrieb.