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

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 22:44, Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 :] Any progress on the updates on the joind.in side? -Hannes