Their systematic feedback will be organized and passed to the developer, who will use that information to fix any bugs and useability issues they find. When that is complete, Community Weaver 3.0 will be released as a beta version.
Release of Community Weaver 3
To ensure a smooth roll-out for Community Weaver 3.0 when the beta version is ready, we are drawing on lessons from the past. The roll-out of Community Weaver 2.0 caused TimeBanks many problems.
Learning from that experience we will be providing each TimeBank with its own, unique trial version of Community Weaver 3.0 so they can become fully familiar with the upgrade before making the transfer in their own time.
In addition, TimeBank coordinators and members will be invited to learn about all the special aspects of Community Weaver 3.0 by attending online webinar demonstrations.
Around the country (and the world) TimeBank coordinators and members can then try out Community Weaver 3.0 and its new features for themselves at their own pace, using data drawn from their own TimeBank.
The try-out will not affect ongoing exchanges in Community Weaver 2. Safely using a trial version, they will be able to experience the new software for as long and as often as they please.
When they feel comfortable, ready and prepared, TimeBank primary coordinators will click on a command that instructs Community Weaver to transfer the data permanently from Community Weaver 2 to Community Weaver 3.0.
The time for that to happen will be completely under the control of TimeBank coordinators.
More on page 16.
Pictured here is a partial screen-shot preview of the Community Weaver 3 TimeBank Page layout.