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

On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 09:42 +0100, Hannes Magnusson wrote: > 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. That is always a risk when employing external services; on the other hand is Joind.in a mature and stable product that has been around since 2009. It is ran by Lorna and supported by people such as Rob Allen, Chris Cornutt, Stefan Koopmanschap, myself and other OSS fanatics. In addition; several of the users promoted on php.net already have an account with Joind.in (DPC, PHPUK, PHPNW, etc) and are now posting their event twice. Where if php.net were to adopt joind.in this would be simpler for them. > > And are you sure joind.in would want to list all the stuff we list? > See http://php.net/cal.php I see no issue with this as Joind.in is meant to promote all kinds of events. To be on the safe side I have relayed this question to Lorna to get a decisive answer. By the way: an additional benefit would be that Joind.in also has an Android and iPhone app and is able to reach a larger audience that way and as such provide services even during events. -- Mike