On 04/17/2012 12:44 PM, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On Tuesday 17 April 2012 11:53:22 Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 18:49 +0200, Thomas Schmidt wrote:
On 17.04.2012 17:09, Bryen M Yunashko wrote: [..]
We *want* to encourage people to room together, especially those we will sponsor for travel (assuming we have funds for that.) But telling people to room together is one thing, knowing where to find people in search of roommates is quite another.
I was thinking we should just create a "Rooming Board" on our website, but on the technical side, there is no database running the website that can store/manage these listings. We could link to a wiki page, but as Jos pointed out, it requires login, which will create a barrier for some people. Hi Bryen, I don't think we should sponsor people to come to the conference that are unwilling to log into our wiki. Or which barrier are you talking about?
Greetings Sponsored attendees was just one example. We should be making it easy to reach out to each other for roommate options regardless of whether you're sponsored or not. The event will not be exclusive only to those who are in the openSUSE community and use the wiki or any other openSUSE login component. Too bad our infrastructure requires the novell/suse account, not everyone is happy with that.
Then again, we have to be realistic, we can't overhaul all our infra all the time. Let's see how Shayon's tool works and if that's a solution. If it isn't, let's set up a wiki page and ask people afterwards if it worked for them... If not, we can change things. I will deploy it tonight on a test and send a link. /S
/Jos (always in favor of quick solutions over perfect ones)
Bryen
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