[Marketing] Event listing (was: [Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Which 2011 conferences should we distribute OSGeo-Live DVDs at?])

[Cameron Shorter]

  Tyler,
Is it possible to add extra fields into the feed?

Information I think we should have:

* Event Name
* Start
* End
* Location
* URL of Conference
* OSGeoAttending? (Yes, No, Undecided)
   Note, it is important to list big non-Open GeoSpatial conferences so 
we can avoid clashing dates
* OSGeoWikiURL for this conference

And what is the process for adding events to the RSS feed source? I can 
add some items.

On 29/10/2010 8:24 AM, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
>
> On 2010-10-28, at 1:22 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2010-10-28, at 12:43 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>> ...
>>
>>> What is required by event organisers, and the osgeo-live team, is a 
>>> chronological list of upcoming events. To achieve this currently 
>>> from the wiki, you would need to dig through 20 or so web pages, 
>>> which is not practical.
>>>
>>> The RSS feed of events at http://osgeo.org <http://osgeo.org/> looks 
>>> promising, if we can have all potential events listed via that RSS feed.
>>> I assume we'd be able to assign categories to the feed?
>>> Eg: have: http://osgeo.org/rss_events?category=proposed
>>>
>>> What options do we have available to us for the RSS feed?
>>
>> We've kept the current events listing on osgeo.org/news 
>> <http://osgeo.org/news> to only include events pertaining to open 
>> source or where OSGeo will be present (more or less).  We could add a 
>> field to the new event form then filter using it for the rss feed (or 
>> for a new feed).  I think we have good flexibility on this front! 
>>  We'd have to open up the ability for more folks to add to the list 
>> of events.
>>
>> I can take a crack at it.
>
> Done - the ability to enter a 'proposed' flag is built in now.  A 
> separate feed as also available:
> http://www.osgeo.org/events/feed/proposed
>
> Now who will be adding the events?
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Marketing mailing list
> Marketing at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing


-- 
Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Solutions Manager
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254

Think Globally, Fix Locally
Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
http://www.lisasoft.com

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/marketing/attachments/20101029/0571c991/attachment-0001.html