Provisional Program Presentation Page
Posted by Barry Rowlingson on April 28, 2013
Its not finished but its here (URL hopefully not discoverable, don't make public, will move to a proper place when presenters have been informed):
http://2013.foss4g.org/provisional1234/
user can click the tag buttons to filter the displayed presentations.
user can click 'view details' to get long abstracts popup
if this is all good, then things to do:
http://2013.foss4g.org/provisional1234/
user can click the tag buttons to filter the displayed presentations.
user can click 'view details' to get long abstracts popup
if this is all good, then things to do:
- add a big friendly button to go back to showing all
- get the text blurb right
- maybe change the colour of the selected tag
- maybe add a search box (would use client-side javascript)
- make readable tag labels or popup explanations and replace 'hm' with something
- fix 'govt' and 'government' tagging
- add logo
- add 'provisional' everywhere (could probably do a background image)
- add individual project tags
Comments
Barry Rowlingson on April 28, 2013:
Just needs to be put in a sensible place and made public.
Addy Pope on April 29, 2013:
Barry Rowlingson on April 29, 2013:
https://basecamp.com/1920286/projects/762306-foss4g-13/messages/10972118-pledge-page
I only sent that thread's emails to SF+Comms group to try and avoid information overload to the whole group. Hope that's okay.
Steven Feldman on April 29, 2013:
Can we keep this private until I have spoken with Claire and we have sent the mails out.
Does hm get replaced with hacks or tips?
Barry Rowlingson on April 29, 2013:
Also, I pruned out any tags with less than 3 presentations - this weeded out mapfish, leaflet, catastrophe, geomajas, newdevelopments, gvsig and gdalogr. I did most of the tagging from the title so there may be things in the abstracts to add that would increase these tag counts.
If I get a chance I'll try and upload my master spreadsheets - currently this is all derived from some CSV files on my PC (actually on dropbox for safety) which have had some edits from the 'Final' one on google docs.
Jo Cook on April 29, 2013:
Jo
Barry Rowlingson on April 29, 2013:
I think a presentation with no tags in the set would still appear, it would just not have any tags with it, and would only show up when 'Show All' was selected.
A quick look shows everything has at least one tag. Sanity checks definitely required (on me though).
Addy Pope on April 29, 2013:
Barry Rowlingson on April 29, 2013:
Suchith Anand on April 29, 2013:
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Jeremy Morley on April 29, 2013:
Jeremy Morley on April 29, 2013:
Jeremy Morley on April 29, 2013:
Barry Rowlingson on April 29, 2013:
Jeremy Morley on April 29, 2013:
How are the tags organised? Because they're not alphabetical it was a little tricky to fund "Humanitarian".
Barry Rowlingson on April 29, 2013:
The ordering is ummm... the ordering of keys in a python dictionary. Alphabetical is a possibility but the random ordering encourages browsing. You can click on the tag badges in the presentation box and filter that way, so once you see a presentation of interest you can click to filter on that. Not sure how discoverable that mechanism is.
I don't get your last comment on multiple selection. Ah... I think I get it...
Click Tag A, show all presentations with Tag A, collect all tags in those presentations and only enable those tags. Hmm doable.
It all depends how long until we want to release this is....
Jeremy Morley on April 29, 2013:
Barry Rowlingson on April 29, 2013:
I also pondered a 'Tainted' tag for anything with non-open components and esri speakers.
But seriously... Note I'm not considering that this page is going to function as anything other than the provisional programme listing. For organising into streams and time slots we need a proper conference management solution. Am looking closely at some now.
Barry Rowlingson on April 29, 2013:
Jeremy Morley on April 29, 2013:
Barry Rowlingson on April 29, 2013:
Jeremy Morley on April 29, 2013:
Barry Rowlingson on April 30, 2013:
...which explains what that <hr> was doing there before I removed it. basically operating to clear the flow. stuck it back in, seems to have fixed it.
have also changed the behaviour so that if you end up with no presentations it puts a message and the big friendly button in the main body. There's still something not quite right cognitively and I think its because when the user deselects all toggles the two possibilities are showing none or going "showing none is pointless, lets show all" and the user sees everything. I've gone with showing none but making it easy for the user to show all or keep clicking tag toggle buttons.
its got to the point where the logic in the code is getting a bit fiddly, so I think if I wanted to change anything from now I'd probably start from a clean slate (in terms of how I'd do the javascript, that is).
Rollo Home on April 30, 2013:
Barry Rowlingson on April 30, 2013:
Claire Gilmour on April 30, 2013:
Steven Feldman on April 30, 2013:
Barry, can we take the programme page live now?
Jeremy Morley on April 30, 2013:
Rollo... did you want to have a call on Friday morning to talk programme? (Sorry, thread-napping, we can take this to another thread...)
Barry Rowlingson on April 30, 2013:
URL shall we put it under? /programBeta /programmeProvisional?
Jeremy Morley on April 30, 2013:
I wonder if we might keep this in some form, either parallel to the streaming or repurposed from tags to streams?
Steven Feldman on April 30, 2013:
How about http://2013.foss4g.org/programme/provisional-programme/ ?
I would keep this as a programme search with tags even when the timetable is published. Possibly add the Streams as additional tags with some colour coding to indicate difference?
Barry Rowlingson on April 30, 2013:
To do anything further I would:
I wanted to get a bit further in exploring Symposion at the weekend but I spent it hacking javascript. Might do more this week.
I've had a few emails from the Symposion guys about hosting and support but they want $1000 up front for 10 hours of support time (which can including theming, custom coding) and $100/month for hosting on their servers.
It installs really easily, so we could just pony up a fraction of that for another amazon host and DIY.
My recommendation is
Barry Rowlingson on April 30, 2013:
Jansen has two papers, has been asked to choose one of two
Genuchten and Ticheler have been asked to choose one of theirs
We could either:
Rollo Home on May 1, 2013:
Would be ideal to publish this list asap - it will create a huge buzz.
Barry Rowlingson on May 1, 2013:
Steven Feldman on May 1, 2013:
Antony Scott on May 10, 2013:
Jeremy Morley on May 10, 2013:
Steven Feldman on May 10, 2013: