[advocacy-discuss] Advocacy & User Groups: The Future

[Tim Foster]

On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 19:09 +0100, Nicolas Dorfsman wrote:
> > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/os-presentations/ ?
> >
> > If it's just a case of switching the data over, just tell me where to
> > sign up! :-)
> 
>    We (ug) all (or almost :) ) have a page with our presentations.
>    IMHO, the need is to have a table with re-directs.

I agree - the table on the os.o page is already a table with redirects
(indeed, very little of the content is local to that page) but
unfortunately as others have mentioned, that page is one that can

a) only be maintained by leaders of the advocacy community
b) be forgotten about when you're posting presentations on your own page

- I'd love some all-singing-all-dancing RSS thingamajig that allows the
advocacy community webpage to subscribe to "presentation feeds" from all
user groups, and have it the table update automatically, but I strongly
suspect that'll never happen, because it requires 

a) someone to write the damn webapp
b) user groups to actually publish/announce their presentations in a
standard way (sometimes publishing them at all seems to be a push[1]!)



In the meantime, Jim's idea of moving this to a wiki would at least take
the guilt of having our "central list of presentations" being out of
date off *my* shoulders, well, a little bit anyway. 

I'd still probably end up sending begging letters to advocacy-discuss
from time to time looking for people to help keep the table up to date. 
[ I still love this table though, as it give an at-a-glance view of how
active we've been during a given time period - the only flaw is it needs
constant care and attention to ensure it remains accurate ]


It would be preferable to see all presentations on a single page, rather
than say:

   * click here for svosug presentations
   * click here for frosug presentations
   * click here for ieosug presentations
   etc.

 - getting the speakers name, the date, the presentation title, the
venue and the topic area are all must-haves imho. (search engines like
that sort of thing)

	cheers,
			tim



[1] ieosug is guilty of this too
[2] okay, maybe I made that bit up
-- 
Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops
http://blogs.sun.com/timf