On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 1:25 PM, vinay singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> would not be able to attend drupal7 release event (coz of my exams) > but it would be my pleasure to contribute to fossevents.in . Since > fossevents.in was not ready in the meantime we started with a > temporary fossevents page( http://iftytech.com/node/3 ) so that people > outside the community don't miss it at all. But its not the solution > !!!!!!!!!! > > nobody is digagree. See http://fossevents.in/ , it give a link to your website. > Looking forward for a permanent solution>>> fossevents.in which should > be attractive + simple. Here m sharing some ideas please give your > feedback > > 1) For the home page > we can have a jquery slider (header) for the upcoming events just > like this http://eventful.com/losangeles/events (please avoid the > content :P) n i can do this job regularly as to update the slider and > removing the past events from the slider. It should be catchy and > attractive( for the people outside the community). The slider should > show events in according to their dates( eg: 15-Jan-2011 then > 10-Jan-2011 then 2-Jan-2011.......). > > in the content of the page we can have a brief description of FOSS , > motive behind FOSS Events and building community. > > > 2) About Us page(optional) > we can have this page where we can have a brief description about > various foss communities in our country from where we get these event > news and all. This can solve dispute among various foss communities > which is quite common these days :P > > 3) Upcoming Events page > We can have a calender module in the right slidebar just like in > http://fossevents.org > In the left slidebar we can have our twitter or some other feeds. > > in the main body content we can have a simple top down list of the > upcoming events which should have links to the event sites and if the > event is not having any site or page then(specially the small school > and college events) ??? > And we should mention the events as open event or closed events(such > FOSS events which are allowed for the students of that college only.) > > > 4) Gallery/Past events/ Coverage page > this page can also have the top down list of the past events and their > coverage via link to photos and blogs by the attendies. This will > bring all communities together to share their experiences. > > 5) Contact us page > A simple contact page with contact form so that people can share the > upcoming events link as well as their photos and blog links after any > event. > > > @Kinshuk ya thats a good idea to publish the feeds of fossevents.in on > fossevents.org and to have no registration as it should look simpler > to a new user. > > The main idea behind my this layout is to attract the people outside > the communities to these events. As far my personal experience i found > that people outside the communities never get the news of such events > and sometimes if they get then they get are not able to get the main > agenda of such events. > > The most important thing fossevents.in can't do these all jobs just > being as a website it should be a social media for FOSS events in > India via various social networking channels. > > Cheers.......... > > On 12/30/10, satyaakam goswami <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Kinshuk Sunil > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > >> let us all catch up on d7rp, do it as a hackathon: flyankur, me, vinay > and > >> gaurav > >> > >> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:35 AM, gaurav luthra > >> <[email protected]>wrote: > >> > >>> I would be happy to contribute to fossevents.in.Hopefully we can get > >>> working on it after d7rp. > >>> > >>> > >>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Narendra Sisodiya < > >>> [email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 2:41 AM, flyankur <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> I am working on a project which is somewhat similar > >>>>> to it, which keeping me really short of time for next 3 weeks or so. > I > >>>>> would really love to help develop the fossevents.in. With the UI > in > >>>>> my mind, fossevents.in can up by december end. > >>>>> > >>>>> > > have your plans ready , in the meantime flyankur has something ready > offline > > already so don't waste your time on it for now , he should be back from > > holidays in few days , probably he can give us what he has done then we > take > > it up from there. > > > > > > thanks for the support everyone. > > > > -Satya > > > + There should be a "newsletter" or "Email alert" kind of system, so anybody can get event info on email too -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
