Glossary

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The Buoy glossary defines terms used in the Buoy issue tracker, Buoy Wiki and Buoy descriptive materials.

Overview

1. Contextually
2. Alphabetically
3. A
4. B
5. C

Contextually

This section defines terms contextually.

Buoy User Roles

General roles

• Admin: An admin (or administrator) of a website that hosts a Buoy plugin.
• Buoy users: Any user, including administrators, of Buoy. This term is used to reference any and all Buoy users, when there is no need to specify roles, such as in general descriptions of Buoy. Example: "Buoy users can work together in the creation of local community-based emergency response networks."

Team user roles

• Team owner: A Buoy user who has created a team.
• Team member: A Buoy user who has received and accepted a team invitation from a "team owner."
• Invited user: An individual who has been sent a request to join a Buoy team, but has yet to accept the invitation.

Alert instance user roles

• Alerter: In the context of an alert, an "alerter" is the Buoy user who initiated the alert being sent.
• Responder: In the context of an alert, a "responder" is a Buoy user who both received the alert and clicked the "Respond" button after having received said alert.
• Notified user: In the context of an alert, a "notified user" is a Buoy user who is sent a notification of some kind (email, txt, Web push, etc.) of an alert but has not yet acted upon the notification they received.

Alphabetically

This section defines terms alphabetically.

A

Alert notification

A message sent from the Buoy instance to a confirmed Team member, such as an email or SMS/txt message containing a notice of the alert.

Alerter

In the context of alerts, an "alerter" is the Buoy user who initiated the alert being sent.

Alert message

An "alert message" is the human-language message text sent as part of an alert notification.

B

Buoy instance

The "Buoy instance" is the Buoy-enabled website itself, or the Buoy plug-in installed on the website.

C

Crisis message

"Crisis message" can refer to the Crisis message Buoy preference or the actual message content of an alert.

See also: alert message.

I

Incident link

The "incident link" is the link present in an alert notification that allows a notified user to access the Review Alert screen.

N

Notified user

In the context of an alert, a "notified user" is a Buoy user who is sent a notification of some kind (email, txt, Web push, etc.) of an alert but has not yet acted upon the notification they received.