FUDcon Website Idea

[Larry Letelier]

On 09/06/11 11:41, María Leandro wrote:
> Hola People!
>
> Today I had a small meeting with Samuele and we talk a bit about FUDcon EMEA
> design and some random ideas that I would like to share with all of you (not
> only FUDcon EMEA folks).
>
> === What about have a FUDcon self website? ===
>
> FUDcon EMEA team has been working on a website design that could help spread
> the event to non-fedora people (and some locals too) [1]. Site looks amazing
> and seems to be really functional. All big and important events have not
> only a wiki to describe how is/will be and how to plan it, but also have a
> site build to gather atteendees and provide them easy information.
>
> *** Website possible tasks ***
> * Provide a friendly and useful website to release information and news
> about FUDcon pre/during/post events
> * Have a press section with news and general information
> * A possible registration form to capture new-contributors/users information
> * Photos gathering section (also social networks)
> * Contact form
> * Sponsors and Speakers small bio
> * General calendar with schedules, talks, hackfest and further info
> * Something else?
>
> *** Why add a website if we already have a wiki? ***
> No... we don't need it... but we are Fedora and we always came up with crazy
> ideas.
> If we want to spread FUDcon as a great event, we need a self website for
> that... period.
> Wikis are more for organization and planning and EMEA guys are correct with
> the idea of present FUDcon as a premiere event, not only for us but for the
> world too.
> So.. looking at the mockup... do you like this idea?
>
> *** Implementation ***
> * We need a server to hold this, but I don't know if we will use RH/FP
> services but I'm sure that a lot of us (including me) will provide this
> (admins... little help over here!)
i can help in this point. sure ;-)

> * We should set up a farm for this... so each FUDcon have his own page. This
> will help not only to have a better organization, but also to provide a
> long-term information and more SEO links to increase FUDcon info traffic (we
> want the world to know about us)
> * Design is not that reelevant since base mockup is done, we need to add a
> new item to FUDcon Planning if this come up - A web mantainer (or at least
> someone who writes once per week at this site)
> * Are we going to use a CMS or something new? For FUDcon EMEA we have only 3
> months so has to be something useful and fast. (I sugest Wordpress since is
> easy to work with and friendly-user but if you have more ideas just drop
> them here)
>
>
> What do you people think about this?
>
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> [1] http://www.2s-design.it/fudcon_milan/site/template.html
> This is my favorite example...  http://www.campus-party.org/home-en.html
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