Re: Dealing with CFP / Conference dates

Eli, We still need to support people that are not on joind.in related, don't we? If i missed that part, please forgive me since it was not intentional. Stelian On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Peter Cowburn <petercowburn@gmail.com> wrote: > Copying Paul in. :) > > On 26 February 2015 at 13:54, Eli <eli@eliw.com> wrote: > > > I'd like to make the point, once again, that we are supposed to be > > moving away from this system altogether :) > > > > For months now we've been waiting for the 'new system' that completely > > removes this task from us. (In fact I've been waiting to submit my own > > conference while 6-7 have come through), just because I didn't want to > > add to a system that was on the verge of being removed. > > > > So I'll ask again. Can we get the new code pushed live that > > automatically does the conferences by Joind.in? As it's the 'end goal' > > anyway, it solves this issues mentioned here, and ... everyone has > > already said yes. > > > > Eli > > > > > > On 2/26/15 3:49 AM, Peter Cowburn wrote: > > > 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 > > >>> > > > > -- > > | Eli White | http://eliw.com/ | Twitter: EliW > > | > > > > > > >