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

[Tim Foster]

Hey there,

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 10:32 +0200, Martin Man wrote:
> > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/os-presentations/
> 
> Actually I didn't know about this page, it looks nice, but it seems that 
> it's missing the latest presentations given by CZOSUG group. As it seems 
> the process of including a presentation at this page is to ping 
> ug-discuss and tim directly to update the page?

Thanks for the ping :-) I'll update it later today.

> > 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.
> 
> I'd really like to see something *topic oriented*, instead of *date 
> oriented*.

Right, that's what I was hoping to add with the keywords - want to see
all DTrace talks ? Just click the sort by keyword column, and scroll
down to the DTrace section.

> I mean, who is interested when the talk was given and where, it probably 
> makes sense to just distinguiss the topic, and the presenter, so just 
> reorganizing the table into several smaller tables that are topic 
> oriented (alphabetically sorted) could do it for the moment...

Personally, I like seeing the activity ordered by date, I'm
old-fashioned enough to think that it gives a sense of "what's going on
at the moment" in opensolaris-ug-land. But I do also understand that
it's useful to be able to jump right to the topic you're interested in.

I'd love a server-side component that allows us to filter the list by a
topic (like seeing a view of a db table), but that's not going to happen
in the short term - there's bigger fish to fry at the moment.

	cheers,
			tim

-- 
Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group
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