Re: Suggestion and help offer for redesign re. dynamic conference and user group system and calendar

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:10, Mike van Riel <mike.vanriel@naenius.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 11:58 +0100, Hannes Magnusson wrote: >> joind.in lists usergroup meetups? o.O >> >> Our calendar has historically contained everything from usergroup >> meetups to courses to conferences. >> The php.net/conferences page only highlight some conferences, but the >> idea is to also highlight usergroup meetups (based on geoip, like we >> highlight events on the frontpage). >> Furthermore making it easier to locate a usergroup near you would be >> great (we already have a good list, provided by Elizabeth). > > Joind.in currently offers the possibility to register a multitude of > events, such as: > > - Courses or workshop days, ex: http://joind.in/event/view/845 > - Conferences, ex: http://joind.in/event/view/782 > - User groups, ex: https://joind.in/event/view/828 > > Joind.in registers the longitude and lattitude for events (and offers > lookup for those who only know their address) and using this information > it is possible to do a lookup of events that are near you. > > Concerning grouping of events, such as specific user groups or php-only > events, does Joind.in support tags. With some user contributions it is > even possible to register user groups with some meta-data and link them > to a specific tag. I don't know what to say here. On one hand I would love not really needing to do anything. On the other hand, it would mean everyone has to create an joind.in account, and we would be promoting totally different project we have absolutely no control over and have no fallback if a) it goes commercial b) dies c) does weird stuff. And are you sure joind.in would want to list all the stuff we list? See http://php.net/cal.php -Hannes