Time Stamp Data for When Individuals Join a Team

[suzyqueue]

hey everyone,

i'm new to the group and excited about Kiva!

i'm also interested in time stamp data for when individual lenders
join a team - is that possible to get through the API?

i love the team feature of Kiva, and want to do a mashup of 'team
joining' data and kiva's growth over time...but as far as i can tell,
even though i can get a list of individual lenders per team, i can't
see when each individual joined a given team.

is that right???....any suggestions for work arounds or how to access
such data???

thanks!
suzy

[Skylar Woodward]

Suzy,

That's a great idea! We haven't exposed this yet on the site, but we
don't see a reason not to do it. We just need to figure out the right
way to include this in the data. Stay tuned...

skylar

[YowieFreak]

Skylar,

Given the promise Kiva made to us when the API was being introduced,
that no lender data would be made publicly available via the API that
wasn't already publicly available on our lender pages, does your
statement indicate that we can no longer rely on that promise?

Regards,
Ian

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[Skylar Woodward]

I think it is best to consider that original statement in context. At
the time of the API's introduction, we wanted to assure the lenders
that the API being released would expose no data that, at the time,
was not available on public lender pages. In essence, we used the
lender page as a reference to help convey the set of data the API
would initially expose during a time when there was no concrete Kiva
API or documentation to which to point in order to otherwise help
explain this to people.

Kiva always reserves the right to modify the website or the API in so
much as it is in accordance with the privacy policy. Since new
features are often added to the Kiva website and the Kiva API
regularly over the course of a month, you might expect lender pages or
the Kiva API to change with new features or views of the data at any
time. It's certainly possible that a feature could show up in the API
before it shows up on the Kiva website. This has happened with
journal search, lender search, and loan search-by-country.

Specifically, considering the join_date of a lender for a team, this
is something we have considered incorporating into the site as we
build out more of the community features. However, your caution does
reinforce our own to do due diligence on policy conformance and user
sensitivities.

Thanks,
skylar

[Stephane]

Dear Skylar/Everyone,

I'm also looking forward to using such data on team joining dates.

Is the idea to implement this still in the pipeline?

Thanks, Stephan

2009/8/5 Skylar Woodward <sky...@kiva.org>

[suzyqueue]

Hi Stephan -

I'm STILL very much interested in this...glad to see you might have
some application for the data too.

Anybody else out there interested?

Skylar - any news from your end?

Suzy

[Skylar Woodward]

We're still considering it, but we've been overwhelmed by a lot of
other tasks lately! I'll post a reply if we're able to implement this
field. I agree it could result in some really cool apps as a result.

skylar

[skylar]

This is now live. Thanks for your patience.

Looking forward to seeing the resulting apps!

[suzyqueue]

so cool. thanks skylar and kiva team!!!!

suzy