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

I'm copying Lorna on this - she's been driving the project to greatness for a bit now :) -chris On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 > -- Senior Editor PHPDeveloper.org ccornutt@phpdeveloper.org @enygma