Re: Dealing with CFP / Conference dates

On 26 February 2015 at 08:29, Stelian Mocanita <stelian.mocanita@gmail.com> wrote: > Would it make sense to extend the tool so when you select CFP and > Conference as categories to ask for both dates and content? Right now the > organisers have to return after end of CFP and provide new content and we > have to update it. I do not necessarily have an issue with updating the > entries, but I would so love to automate this and do it once and once only. > > Thoughts? > I think we should be having entirely separate entries for a CFP versus a conference announcement, rather than going back and editing a CFP entry once it is closed (and we've been given updated text). Conflating the two types of entries doesn't make much sense, to me. > > Stelian > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Hannes Magnusson < > hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Stelian Mocanita > > <stelian.mocanita@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > What would be a good way to deal with the CFP / Conference date? Most > if > > > not all of the conferences have different dates, and organisers submit > it > > > all at once. > > > > > > Is there any decent way we can work around this? Maybe add a CFP date > > and a > > > conference date to the news item? > > > > > > > > The dates definitely should be in the news entry itself - otherwise > > the organizers are simply being mean to the people reading the entry > > :/ > > > > Originally when I cared for markup it was all semantically tagged and > > pretty using microformats and eRDF, which exposed hCalendar entries > > which could be easily imported as they contained location and dates > > and descriptions and what not. Shame that became uncool. > > > > > > -Hannes > > >