In reply to: MerriLUG email frequency On 4/13/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
... such that users can RSVP to stop getting reminders if they want ...
Gate the auto email announcements to separate lists, gnhlug-announce-7-days, gnhlug-announce-same-day, gnhlug-announce-30-days, whatever. Subscribe existing gnhlug-announce to all of them. Somewhat clunky, but it would give us user-controlled flexibility for cheap.
... give a head-count for the hall/restaurant ...
Reply-to the coordinator, and s/he keeps track for it manually, as we do now. If someone comes up with a better idea, change it then.
The third half ...
Heh. :)
... is for LUG rustlers to use it for keeping track of speakers, their bios, attendance, event slides, etc.
Hyperlinks to the wiki. Pages for speakers or events, as needed. The web works because not everything is the same, but everything can still touch everything else. Unix philosophy.
As much of it being self-service as possible (speakers can upload their own slides, etc.)
Our wiki allows self-registration, file uploads, page creation now. If "fear of wikis" is an obstacle, one *nice* thing about TWiki's is that it lets you create "forms" that "write wiki pages for you". So we could have a form that lets speakers submit their bio information to one page, and their slides to another.
... is a nice goal for offloading grunt-work from overpaid chairs.
Absolutely. But since the "overpaid chairs" are also the "overpaid sysadmins", anything that saves us effort is a good thing. :)
There's a certain point at which you're putting more into glue code than doing a re-implementation ...
I like grand designs, too. But consider this: Take existing software that does everything else well, and improve it to interoperate better with other components. That is even *more* meta. :) Not only does that benefit other LUGs, it benefits other people who want to hook the existing software into something completely different. Don't write a foo-tool that can also hook into your unique application. Write a foo-tool that can also hook into *any* unique application. If needed, create a foo-tool-hooking-into protocol. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-org mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org/
