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 > !!!!!!!!!! > > 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.......... > all good ideas just some history i registered this domain without knowing about the .org domain , then i had a chat on irc with .org domain guys sayin can they share the code with me , because i do not have skills , time and energy to make it happen , they responded in negative and did not want to collaborate , i don't know who all are still there but i see there site is not populated as expected lets hope since the scale of things for our site is going to be smaller so we should do better. also i am a firm believer in small baby steps , one at a time instead of setting some lofty goal and failing. lets rock. -Satya ps: Rock reminds me of an event invasion festival on Jan 15 from 7 to 11 Pm -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
