On 01/10/2017 08:23 AM, Brian Exelbierd wrote:
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017, at 02:09 PM, Zamir SUN wrote:
> Great idea.
>
> While I still want to know if we still need to fill information in many
> separate wiki pages, like[1] for all events and [2] for release parties?
> Trying to remember update all these different wiki pages seems not make
> too much sense if we will fill the information into the calendar.
>
> [1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
> [2]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F25_release_events
There may be good reasons to keep these pages. I'd like to hear what
people think.
Using a calendar has the benefit that the data is exportable in ics and
easily consumable for other uses. As an example, the start page could
list upcoming events.
With some tagging, which I don't think fedocal has but could
theoretically be extended to have (or with a constrained vocabularly) we
could even "slice and dice" the events.
I hope this would also be useful to commops and magazine in making sure
that events get posts and in helping post writers get priority for
reviews on those posts.
regards,
bex
>
> On 01/10/2017 08:57 PM, Abdel G. Martínez L. wrote:
>> I do agree with your idea. The problem is we Ambassadors only care about
>> participating on events and not generating the proper statistics of
>> those (you know, learned lessons).
>>
>> Having the creation of the calendar event as a requirement for the
>> approval would not harm the Ambassador but fortify our output to the
>> project.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> 2017-01-10 5:58 GMT-05:00 Brian Exelbierd <bex(a)pobox.com
>> <mailto:bex@pobox.com>>:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I noticed that we have an events calendar in fedocal[0]. It appears to
>> contain one event and that event is misfiled[1].
>>
>> Where do regions post all of the events Fedora will be participating in?
>>
>> I get asked, A LOT, whether Fedora will be at event X or Y. It would be
>> great to have a place where we could easily see all of the events we are
>> participating in. In an idea world, I see something like this:
>>
>> <2 ltr country code> - Event Name - City
>> Date(s)
>> Description:
>> Fedora Speaker or Booth or whatever
>> For details see this wiki page and/or contact this person
>>
>> We could use this data to improve our marketing and to improve our
>> coordination across the project.
>>
>> I believe it would be reasonable to ask that event owners be required to
>> create this calendar event as part of getting their event approved by
>> Ambassadors. What do you think?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> bex
>>
>> 0:
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/Events/
>> <
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/Events/>
>> 1: I've emailed the event owner and asked them to move it. I am worried
>> they are not active anymore.
>>
Okay, this is a long thread, so I'll try not to deviate much:
Firstly, this is definitely a regional question. While all of the
regions follow roughly similar practices, the details about how we track
and manage events differs. Some people thoroughly use the wiki for the
event and place it on the Events page, I've also seen third-party sites
used as the primary event page, and a few other things. Whatever we end
up doing, making sure that we are consistent across all regions should
be a priority so that anyone who needs to see Fedora events can see
*all* of them in one place.
Secondly, I personally love the idea of using Fedocal for events, either
as a primary or supplementary method of documenting events. I see two
benefits to using Fedocal:
(1) Anyone who wants to see "where Fedora is" can do so easily and
quickly in the convenience of flipping through months in a
calendar
(2) Other newsy sites have calendars of their own for open source or
Linux events – having one of our own makes it easy for other, non-
Fedora sites to publicize events we participate in on their own
calendar (see the
Opensource.com example below)
https://opensource.com/resources/conferences-and-events-monthly
We could reach out to some sites like these to communicate the
availability of our own calendar to check out and see what all is
happening with Fedora around the world.
Thirdly and lastly, the idea of requiring an event report to receive
reimbursement from an event is an idea I support. This is currently the
policy we follow in North America, and it has worked well. The general
rule is that in order to receive your reimbursement, an event report
must be posted within two weeks of the event.
You can find our reimbursement guidelines here, recently updated and
maintained by Andrew Ward:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAMNA_Reimbursement_Guidelines
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com