On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Eli <e...@eliw.com> wrote: > On 10/7/14 9:47 AM, Derick Rethans wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Oct 2014, Lester Caine wrote: > > > >> On 07/10/14 09:45, Lorna Mitchell wrote: > >>> - joind.in has data that could be re-used on php.net, and we'd be > really > >>> pleased to allow/enable this. > >> As long as joind.in is not the only way of adding meetings to the > >> php.net website ... there are a number of similar services, so > providing > >> one with 'preferential access' does not seem right? > > It would be the only service where we would get *conference* submissions > > through. This is not a replacement for our normal calender events. > > > > cheers, > > Derick > > That is still a 'little bit' of a problem Derick, since as it has been > pointed out, there are a number of conferences that have traditionally > listed themselves on php.net/conferences/ (In fact, there is one right > now - ConFoo), that doesn't use joind.in. > > While I love joind.in, and wish all conferences used it. It does seem a > bit -- awkward if we make the *only* way for a conference to appear on > php.net, is if it exists on joind.in. > > Now granted. Someone, like in the case of ConFoo. Could make a shell > of a joind.in conference for it. ... But it would be nice perhaps if > there was still some way to mix in another 'feed' of conferences besides > joind.in. > > Paul, you already mentioned that you had planned to be able to add more > sources in the future, so that they could merge together. > > How hard would it be for you to add another source, right now, so that > that system was already in place? If you wanted, you could make it > something simple, like an RSS reader. And then someone could host a RSS > feed of: "The extra conferences" somewhere outside of VCS that your > script could just pull from. >
I can code anything you want, it's just a matter of if it's required. Why aren't ConFoo on joindin? Would they be happy with putting it on there in the future if we asked them? If they are willing then this problem goes away and therefore there's only one way to get conferences making everyones lives easier by relying on the joindin team to continue doing the good job that they are already doing. > > That would be a very simple/elegant solution to allowing the edge case > of 'other things' to appear in the /conference/ feed, even if it's not > on joind.in > > Thoughts? > Eli > > > -- > | Eli White | http://eliw.com/ | Twitter: EliW | > > >
