[Foss4g2012] [Board] Putting the focus back in

[Zhengfan Lin]

Hi, Barend Köbben

Thanks for your post. I've updated the
wiki<http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012_To-Do_List#FOSS4G_2012_Beijing_Website>.
I'll talk with the LOC about those issues this Tuesday if possible.

The registration and submitting management system should be reusable and I
personally don't see the point of re-inventing the wheel. Can any of the
previous LOCs share their work to save the Beijing team (which seems to be
experiencing lots of technical difficulties) some valuable time ?


- Zheng-Fan LIN / Tanner


On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Barend Köbben <kobben at itc.nl> wrote:

> Hi Sanghee,
>
>
> Although I support your call for making FOSS4G2012 a succes, and applaud
> your positive thinking, there are some serious problems with the Foss4g2012
> website that should be overcome to make this possible:
>
> Registering: The regsitration form does not properly handle UTF-8
> characters (which is suprising on a Chinese site). The o-umlaut (ö) in my
> name became a question mark (K?kbben).
>
> Submitting a proposal is difficult: it is especially unclear what to
> submit for the different categories: there is a File upload section, but is
> has a Chinese Character button that does not work in my computer (maybe
> because it is using Flash?). And what do I upload for the different
> categories (why is PPT accepted, but PDF not)?
>
> On the same page its says "At this page you will be able to upload your
> documents and select a Primary Subject Area for your paper You should also
> select as many Secondary Areas as your paper fits. These selections are
> important to the review process and must be done with care." But on that
> page (and AFAIK nowhere else) I can find these Primary or Secondary
> Subjects. For academic papers I can choose between absctrat and full aper.
> But what is the difference, should I hand in an abstract first and then
> when accepted a full paper?
>
> If I submit the form, I get a puzzling message about fees of $0.00 that I
> paid and the message: "Please Attend On Time： Event Name：FOSS4G 2012;
>  Events Location： Events Time：2012-09-10T09:00:00 ". This is highly
> confusing.
>
>
>
> --
> Barend Köbben
>
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