Hello! 2009/5/27 Paul Boddie <[email protected]>: > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 20:23:29 Zeth wrote: >> 2009/5/27 Christian Scholz <[email protected]>: >> > or one does it the other way round, collects them on the EP site and >> > somebody uploads the missing ones to slideshare >> >> Well it is having enough somebodies that is always the problem. I >> think collecting via email into a directory is the simpliest solution. > > I think things worked fairly well last year: people went to the Wiki and > uploaded their talks... > > http://www.europython2008.eu/TalkMaterials > > I'm not sure if the abstracts/schedule was archived last year,
http://talks.europython.eu/ > but I did make > an abstracts page on the 2008 Wiki as, having seen the inconsistent archiving > policy in action for EuroPython over the years We now have URLs for europython2008.eu, europython2009.eu and europython2010.eu. The intention is that europython.eu points to the current year and we keep a static site at each location. The wiki to reflect the current year's activities. > I thought that an alternative > location would be nice. This brings me to the following: > >> I personally prefer a written summary/outline/paper than slides. So if >> a proportion of people have the ability and will to write up their >> talk in a more formal or grown-up fashion, then the 'slideshare' >> website is irrelevant. > > I think Slideshare probably gets the materials out there and up into the best > results for searches, and all that Web 2.0 stuff. It also offers some > redundancy in case sites get rearranged and pages disappear. Let us point > people to such sites from the Wiki so that they can get their materials out > there effectively, in addition to uploading stuff to the Wiki, of course. I think that this creates work for the organisers, if we want achieve historical continuity. Putting stuff up on sites like Slideshare is great as an *addition* to our own site, but long term causes problems if we use it *instead*. OMG I hope I haven't started soemthing ;-) Best wishes, John -- _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
