On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 10:11:38AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Paul W. Frields
<stickster(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Ryan Lerch kindly pulled together a branch for the fedora-websites:
>
https://pagure.io/fedora-websites/branch/flock2017-WIP
>
> You can see the results by cloning the repo, changing to that branch,
> moving to the
flocktofedora.org/ folder, and running 'make en test'.
> (Read the README to make sure you have the right stuff installed on
> Fedora to do the build.) Run 'make stoptest' when done.
>
> First, thanks to Ryan to pulling this together very quickly. I think
> it looks beautiful. It's in the spirit of last year's Krakow site
> theme but has its own character/color scheme. Hopefully we can use
> this for 2017.
>
> Second, this brings up a number of things needed to push it live:
>
> 1. A registration site -- we should be able to reuse
>
register.flocktofedora.org along with the backing app, but it does
> need set up. IIRC this was simply run in our OpenStack instance up
> through the time of the conference.
>
> 2. We've also spoken about having a modest registration fee to offset
> swag and/or deal with the no-show registration issue. The site can
> also handle this IIRC, just needs a decision from Flock planners.
>
> Things not needed immediately to push the site out, but needed soon
> for community awareness and/or a better conference:
>
> 3. The registration site also does CFP. So we need to know whether
> and when there is a CFP. This can be turned on at any time, even
> after the registrations are already being accepted.
>
> 4. A flock-attendees-2017 mailing list people can join, to be linked
> on the site. I believe a flock-speakers-2017 mailing list is also
> needed and used later for speakers once selected.
>
> 5. We can strip out other leftover content from Krakow, for example
> sponsors. However, it would be good to know what the plan is for
> finding sponsors, as we are only five months out from the event.
>
> Brian, I can work with my team to provide the registration site. Can
> you provide clarity on #2 above, as well as a date when we need to
> open registration?
Bex is traveling today. We discussed this and a number of other ideas
related to registration and format at the Council FAD. I expect he
will be pinging the planning committee about that soon.
> Any other thoughts on things we need so we can start building
Flock
> awareness publicly?
Hi, I know the Council FAD required some work to report out and so
forth. I'm wondering how we're doing on schedule for Flock pieces
like a CFP.
With many other critical deliverables from my team for F26/F27, we're
not left with much time to spare for registration or CFP features.
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