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

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 18:53, Mike van Riel <mike.vanriel@naenius.com> wrote: > 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, > > We have had a discussion on IRC about this and would it help if Joind.in > was to support facebook and twitter oauth integration so that users do > not specifically need to create a joind.in account? We don't require registration for anything other then commit karma. Needing to register to everything is something I personally hate :) Submitting bugs, events, notes, comments and so on (things you generally only do once or maybe twice) shouldn't force you to register. > (I presume that php.net does not have a federated authentication > scheme? ;)) We do for karma holders, but that is irrelevant for this case I guess, as we won't be approving or rejecting events anymore. >> 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 >> > > This has also been discussed; Neither I nor Lorna can think of an > objection to listing all the stuff that you list. > > What I am wondering is whether the recurring elements on you schedule > are actually recurring or entered manually? recurring, see http://www.php.net/submit-event.php -Hannes