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

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Hannes Magnusson < hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- > PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > CCing Chris Cornutt, as he runs joind.in and he is a fellow php developer, so imo he is the best person to ask whether is joind.in would be a viable alternative for our current events/calendar system. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu