[ug-discuss] Improvements to the user group talks & presentations page ?

[Tim Foster]

Hey Folks,

Sara mentioned yesterday that Martin was looking for a nicer, more
cuddly user-groups talks and presentation page.[1]
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/os-presentations/

 
Without a wodge of server-side support, allowing you to
search/sort/categorise the content nicely, this could be tricky. (and I
believe getting support from the server folks at the moment is probably
going to be like pulling teeth - they're a tad busy)


So, I was thinking about stuff we could do *without* going to the
server.

Two ideas: (and I'll probably implement both of them, if nobody has any
objections)

a) Upgrade the table to the modern era - use a bit of Javascript to
allow us to sort the table via columns. Eg.
http://www.frequency-decoder.com/demo/table-sort/


b) Add a column of keywords : this would be a keyword on the main topic
of the talk (and hence sortable by the above)

Another idea would be to drop a Google "Search this site" box on the
page, but I'm not sure if favouring one search engine company over the
others is a terribly nice thing to do.



Does anyone else have other thoughts - I'll happily be the code monkey
here, so if there's been anything bugging you about that list or you
have ideas on how it could be improved, just let me know. There's no
timescale here, I'll just update it when I get a chance.

	cheers,
			tim

[1] btw. sorry I missed the last mktg con-call Bad timezone calculations
on my behalf.


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Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group
Engineering Operations            http://blogs.sun.com/timf