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

On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 20:41 +0100, Hannes Magnusson wrote: > 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? One such scenario could be that php.net were to add a calendar widget into their own branding in which the same information can be represented with the currently available information, whether a CfP is in progress and additional geo-location information when practical. Each shown event will have a summary as part of the calendar widget but for a full view can the user click on a link and be redirected to the show page at joind.in. For event submissions I would propose to have a 'crafted' link on the php.net website that directly links to the event submission page of joind.in. When the user is not logged in they will be presented with the authentication form where they have the option of logging in using their joind.in, twitter or facebook credentials. Once they have entered their submission will they be redirected to the php.net event calender page. Events submitted from the php.net domain will automatically have a tag 'php' or 'php.net'; with which the calendar widget can filter the relevant events. In the illustrated scenario above would the user spend most of the time browsing the php.net website and only when they want details beyond a summary they would be directed to the joind.in website.