Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] Dealing with CFP / Conference dates

On 26 February 2015 at 08:29, Stelian Mocanita <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Would it make sense to extend the tool so when you select CFP and
> Conference as categories to ask for both dates and content? Right now the
> organisers have to return after end of CFP and provide new content and we
> have to update it. I do not necessarily have an issue with updating the
> entries, but I would so love to automate this and do it once and once only.
>
> Thoughts?
>

I think we should be having entirely separate entries for a CFP versus a
conference announcement, rather than going back and editing a CFP entry
once it is closed (and we've been given updated text).  Conflating the two
types of entries doesn't make much sense, to me.


>
> Stelian
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Hannes Magnusson <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Stelian Mocanita
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > What would be a good way to deal with the CFP / Conference date? Most
> if
> > > not all of the conferences have different dates, and organisers submit
> it
> > > all at once.
> > >
> > > Is there any decent way we can work around this? Maybe add a CFP date
> > and a
> > > conference date to the news item?
> >
> >
> >
> > The dates definitely should be in the news entry itself - otherwise
> > the organizers are simply being mean to the people reading the entry
> > :/
> >
> > Originally when I cared for markup it was all semantically tagged and
> > pretty using microformats and eRDF, which exposed hCalendar entries
> > which could be easily imported as they contained location and dates
> > and descriptions and what not. Shame that became uncool.
> >
> >
> > -Hannes
> >
>