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

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 21:19, Mike van Riel <mike.vanriel@naenius.com> wrote: > 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. Okidoki. I'm game, and I don't see anyone else around here disagreeing :] -Hannes