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

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 19:44, Mike van Riel <mike.vanriel@naenius.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 19:38 +0100, Hannes Magnusson wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 18:53, Mike van Riel <mike.vanriel@naenius.com> wrote: >> 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 can relate to that. That is why I am suggesting to use authentication > schemes from mediums which most conference organisers probably already > use. As such no additional registration is necessary. > > An authentication scheme is necessary in this case to be able to edit > events, correlate talks to speakers and allow event organisers to update > the schedule and such. > > What is your take on this? Sure, you offer much more functionality that would benefit from having registered users. Thats fair enough, and adding other various login solutions would be great. Thats not my biggest issue with using joind.in though. It was hard to get people to like using flickr for images, outsourcing our entire calendar listing and conference news isn't going to be easypeasy. I'm liking the idea more and more though... How do you see it work in practice? -Hannes