[OSGeo-Conf] [OSGeo-Discuss] Conference web timetable

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Barry,
There are Open Source conference applications, which I suspect do 
most/all of what you are trying to achieve. You might find it worth 
doing a quick review of these before starting to roll your own.

I suggest you also think about the website for POST-FOSS4G.
You are about to be given hundreds of presentations (and videos?), and I 
expect you will want your website to link to them.

I suggest that you work out a process to link the presentations into the 
website as you collect them.
It is significantly easier than manually doing it (as we did for foss4g 
2009).



On 24/07/2013 6:25 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> HI all,
>
>   I'm working on the web-based timetable for FOSS4G and I thought I'd
> get some input. I've had a look at the E**I UC conference web as well
> as timetables for other conferences for inspiration. I've also been
> watching lots of television.
>
>   Currently there's just something like a spreadsheet-dump of our
> provisional schedule - note there have been a small number of changes
> to this:
>
>    http://2013.foss4g.org/timetable/
>
> But clearly this is a bit rubbish for the real thing.
>
> I'm wondering about features and layout. Here's a brain dump of things:
>
> Features: what functionality do you think is needed?
>
>   * off-line mode - our Wifi will be perfect, so maybe we don't need
> this. I'm not even sure how it would work, not having played with
> local browser storage before. I guess the easiest way is to download
> the conference data as a JSON file...
>
>   * search title/presenter/tag - easy, just need to write some django
> search index classes, hook haystack into it, write some forms and
> templates
>
>   * select 'favourite' events - there's no logins, so it would be
> stored in a long-lived cookie, so per-device-user-browserprofile
>
>   * download sessions/talks/events/favourites in calendar format -
> there's python/django code for this so doable.
>
>   * "Now/Next" view - shows what's on now and what's on next, like an
> onscreen TV guide. I also promise that people's presentations wont
> have a little popup on screen at 5 mins before they finish with "Next
> on FOSS4G, another episode of ..."
>
>   * +1/"like this" button - a little bit of social sauce, this might
> give us an advance warning of popular talks for possible room
> rescheduling.
>
>   * REST API and people can write their own front-ends - hmmmmm.....
>
>
> Layout: how should this all look on the page?
>
>   * mobile friendly - obviously essential
>
>   * "EPG" style (like an onscreen TV-guide, with time going across the
> top and rooms as tv channels) This might be more mobile-friendly with
> people generally holding their phones upright. Scroll left-right or
> hit the 'now' button to jump around in time. Can probably get most of
> the concurrent streams in.
>
>   * "Scroll down style"  with rooms across the top and time running
> down the screen. Scroll up/down to navigate in time, but you need a
> wide screen to get all concurrent streams in.
>
>   * show title/presenter/tags
>
>   * click to show description
>
>   So, ideas to make the FOSS4G web timetable the best FOSS4G web
> timetable ever please!
>
>   Lastly a call for help - I'm not the best web designer in the world -
> I'm not even the best web designer in The Beatles[1] - so if anyone
> would want the job of taking my rubbish CSS and tidying it up to work
> in IE, or telling me my classes are all wrong, or my <br/> is not
> semantic, then that would be welcome. Please email directly. This is
> all being done in Django under an open-source license, but its really
> front-end devs we need.
>
> Barry
>
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