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

[John Plocher]

Tim Foster wrote:
> 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. 

How about using a simple media-wiki Category trick to do all this for you
somewhat automagically:

Put all your presentations on the genunix wiki, one page per
preso. On the bottom of each of these pages, put the string
[[Category:UserGroupPresentation]]  The preso itself (pdf,
soffice source, a website elsewhere) doesn't have to be there,
just a cover page/intro that contains this tag.

Create the Category page for the presentations
	Category:UserGroupPresentation
Add whatever generic content you wish; the mediawiki engine will
put a table at the end of the page when it is displayed that
contains links to all the pages in the wiki tagged with the category
tag as above.

For an example, see my Open Source Hardware page on spcoast.com,
which uses mediawiki as well:

http://www.spcoast.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Detector

This page references a bunch of sub-pages:

     * Detector Construction
     * Detector LocoIO Configuration
     * Detector Testing
     * Detector Theory of Operation
     * Detector Track Connections

As I add additional pages with the tag, this page display is
updated automatically.

A page can have multiple category tags, so things can be sliced
and diced in many different ways.

   -John